Santa Rosa Workshop

9 x 12 oil Vineyard

12 x 16 oil Santa Rosa View

 Just back from a wonderful workshop in Santa Rosa...great group, gorgeous house and vineyards

9 x 12 Pastel Vineyard

Our wonderful group in the house

6 x 8 oil  No Green

9 x 12 oil Kitchen

9 x 12 oil Red an White 

9 x 12 Red Chairs

Waterway

Waterway, my 8 x 8 oil demo from this morning. I used a Dick Blick Professional 1 1/2 inch board with linen canvas mounted on it.  I liked the surface a lot!

Pastel 100

 Thrilled to announce that "On the Run", 9 x 12 Pastel achieved third place in the Pastel Journal's 100 best pastels of 2015 in the Animanl Wildlife category!

Some more demos

Pumpkins Indoor  6 x 6 oil on board

Blaisdale Lake Pastel 9 x 12

Blue House 9 x 12 oil on board

 The pumplkins and Lake reflection Pastel are from the New London workshop.  The Blue House is my demo from this morning

demos from New London Fall workshop

Some demos from my lovely workshop in New London, NH.  Great group, wonderful weather and lovely places to paint the fall!

 

Low Tide

"Low Tide" is my 6 x 6 oil on board demo from my Monday oil class.  Trying to return to "the loose"

some minor changes

 So, I made some minor changes.  Still not feeling great.  The kitchen was too wonky, now it's just a little less wonky.

I mostly worked on the middle person's face and a few hits on the guy on the right.

I think I liked the ideas better than the execution