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Sketch Marathon Day 11: Painting on Location at Carkeek Beach
May 11, 2016
Carkeek Shore (plein air). 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 I painted on the beach at Carkeek Park today. What a difference compared to my last visit - a rainy winter day when I had the whole place to myself. On a bright spring day like today, the colors of the PNW coast almost look artificial. ...
Sketch Marathon Day 10: Revisiting a Plein Air Notan Sketch
May 10, 2016
North Field. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Sketch marathon day 10. Starting to feel like I'm making some progress. [Before I continue, I have to say that this sketch didn't photograph very well (much like yesterday's painting). I'll try to get a better image when the paint has dried a little.] Yest...
Sketch Marathon Day 9: A Seago Palette
May 9, 2016
Golden Gardens Beach. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 This painting is ostensibly of Golden Gardens beach, with a lot of clutter removed and the layout of the beach slightly altered. It's a scene that I've tried to paint before without success. Today, I spent more time developing the composition usin...
Sketch Marathon Day 8: Back to the Water
May 7, 2016
Soar. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 A customer gave me some great feedback on the seascape I did earlier in the week. With that in mind I revisited one of the plein air themes I'd worked on over the winter. My goal was to put more in the foreground: this started off as waves and beach but, after ad...
Sketch Marathon Day 7: Working Directly from Notan Sketches
May 6, 2016
North Bluff. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 Today I took a bit of a different turn in my sketch-a-thon. Because I had other things that I needed to get done, I was only able to get a couple of sketches finished. I revisited some of the scraped-off field studies that I did yesterday, working from a co...
Sketch Marathon Day 6: Olympic Peninsula
May 5, 2016
Olympic Peninsula (plein air). 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Of the four field studies that I did today, this is the only one I decided to keep. Despite the grandiose title, I painted this at the Smith Cove Park marina here in Magnolia, just 5 minutes from our house. I timed my arrival (accidentall...