"Fall Palette" oil landscape, Arboretum series

Next in the Arboretum series. The challenge was painting the glow of the leaves in the indirect , suffused light of an overcast, Northwest day. I had to dial down the background values enough so that the application of the cad. red and yellow leaves would pop.

"Runner at the Arboretum" oil landscape painting, Arboretum series

I did a 6x8 oil sketch of this runner to work out composition for a larger painting.....maybe 16x20.....I'm loving all the rich color in the fall leaves and grass.

6x8 oil on panel.

"Mountlake Cut" oil landscape from the Arboretum series

Just before we went to Hawaii I spent the day walking all through the Arboretum by the University of Washington. It was a cool, overcast, Northwest day and I took lots of images to work from. Well,....it looks like I'm going to do a series of paintings from those photos. I have completed three so far. This is the first one ...of the Mountlake Cut , where they have the rowing competition in the summer.

12x9 oil on panel 2009 robin weiss contact: robinweiss@earthlink.net

"Clear Lake" oil landscape painting

Finally back in the studio after some time off to honeymoon in beautiful, sunny and WARM Hawaii...We had a blast!...=]....I'll be working from some of my pictures taken on the island of Kauai soon but wanted to finish this painting of Clear Lake that was on the easel before I left. This image was taken in July, at Camp High Rock when Annie and I served as cabin counselor and nurse at a camp for the kids off the Yakima Indian reservation.

36x18 oil on canvas contact: robinweiss@earthlink.net for more info.



The full scale sketch done with markers on white paper.

Big Valley Moonrise" reworked oil landscape painting

Not sure if I improved this painting....the original was a bit dark and without a real focal point so I threw it on the easel after a cup of strong Starbucks coffee and started to play with it...(Don't try this at home!)....I think the new version has more for the viewer to work with.....

12x12 oil on canvas

The original version

"The Great Tortoise Hostel" Seattle city scenes

Some of you may remember this painting from 07......I have pulled it out of the closet ....finally!.....and finished it. I have been spending some time finishing or reworking old paintings and I will share those in my next few posts......Kinda got behind with the blog....what with shows, commissions, ...being sick...=/.....AND THE BIG WEDDING!....Annie and I will be married on Sunday!!=].. In fact, this painting was from an image that I took on one of our first dates before Ann went to Uganda.

If any of you are in the area and would like to come to the wedding, it would be a blessing to share this happy day with you...The wedding will take place at Liberty Bay Presbyterian Church in Poulsbo this Sunday at 3:00 pm.

24x24 oil on canvas sold

"Coffee Pot with Apple" oil still life painting

I love this coffee pot and have painted it several times. The reflections of light are always a challenge and a joy to paint.

12x12 oil on canvas 2009 Robin Weiss

"Peaceful change" landscape oil painting

Loving the beautiful fall colors.....they are brief here in the Pacific Northwest...and rain is on the way. I would love to seize the moment but am committed to Arts in the Woods second day!...=]...Come on over if you can , it will be a beautiful day to tour art studios..

5x7 oil on panel

"Bell Town 2" Seattle city scenes oil painting

I received such a good response from "Bell Town" I decided to try another smaller study from a different angle.

8x6 oil on panel sold

"Flock" landscape oil painting

I tried another little painting of the field outside and it just didn't work.....so I scraped it and just played around until this happened ........I think it's interesting........

7x5 oil on panel sold

Arts in the Woods.....This weekend!!....=].....See ya there!

"Field Fir" plein air landscape painting

Sometimes I spend the whole day at the studio without a plan of attack or any inspiration. I usually end up walking in circles and not getting anything done. One day this week was like that.....At the end of the day I sat down, prayed briefly and then turned my easel towards the window and painted the field outside. I consider this insignificant little study an answer to prayer and a confirmation from my Best Friend.

"Arts in the Woods" is coming up this weekend! ... Be there or be square!...=].......check out the Cultural Arts Foundation website for more info..... or come to the Knowles studio to pick up brochures and maps of all the other studios. Hope to see you there!!

"Bell Town" Seattle city scene oil painting

My son Maury is going to school at the Art Institute of Seattle for game design. This little sidewalk cafe is in Belltown near AIS. When I am walking through the city ...or just about anywhere......I snap pictures with my pocket digital. I don't even look at what I'm taking till I get home and then go through and delete all the junk and keep anything that looks promising. I liked the perspective of the red umbrellas in this shot.

12x12 oil on canvas sold

"Easy Pickins" seagull in flight oil painting

Me and Annie were sitting in the sun watching a gentleman feed the seagulls on the ferry to Seattle awhile back. I pulled out the ever ready pocket camera and took some shots of the seagulls in flight. The images were really blurry but that's OK! I'm not a photographer, I'm a painter...=]

6x10 oil on card 2009 robinweiss@earthlink.net

"The Red Purse" cityscape oil painting

I did a small study for this painting awhile ago. The Ohio series is done for now and I'm back to painting cityscapes for an upcoming show in the Frodel gallery at Westsound Academy that will be in December.
16x20 oil on canvas 2009 contact robinweiss@earthlink.net

Arts in the Woods is the next show coming up. For more information on AITW click here

"Pear Pressure" Still life, daily painting

6x9 oil on panel

"Morning Fog" landscape oil painting , Lansing Ohio

We spent a few days with my aunt Carol in Lansing Ohio....This was a view from her back stoop of the alley behind the house. My Grandma and Grandpa lived a few houses down the same street.

6x8 oil on panel sold

"Green Pastures" oil landscape painting with cows

I have one more Ohio painting to post and then I'm done with this series......pretty sure.......Cows are just too much fun to paint! These are Holsteins.....ready for milking!...hanging out in the green pastures of southwest Ohio. The challenge was adding interest in the foreground grass by varying color, texture and brush stroke.

14x18 oil on canvas

Prelim sketch

"Passing Through Orville" trains in the landscape , daily oil painting

Orville is the little town where Annie's folks live in southeast Ohio. I saw this locomotive parked on the tracks in a side train yard as we were walking to town to find the library .....and a good coffee shop....=].....I'm not sure if someone is trying to restore this train or it has been forgotten and left as a relic of the past.....It was fun trying to paint her as if she were still in service......the lonely train whistle sounding on the way to some distant destination.

12x16 oil on canvas

From the sketchbook.....

My next show is coming up in November. It will be here in Poulsbo and I will be joining four other artists in the Knowles studio on November 13th, 14th and 15th for the Arts in the Woods studio tour put on by the Cultural Arts Foundation.

I will be telling you more about the other artists and reminding everyone about the show as the dates get closer. For more info just click HERE

"Summer Barns" oil landscape painting

Finally got a decent picture of this painting. Another one of the interesting barns from Ohio.

6x8 oil on panel

"Cows on the Edge" landscape oil painting

I've found I really like painting cows. I used an image taken from my Ohio pictures of cows heading to pasture and added the foreground. It's kind of a marriage between representational and abstract painting...

16x20 oil on canvas sold

"Hollyhocks" floral still life, oil on canvas

The big freeze is coming...better paint the flowers while I can..I put these in a vase by the window and painted them for warm ups....=]

11x14 oil on canvas

"Three Green Pears" oil still life painting

I picked a few wild pears from the field outside the studio to do some little warm up paintings. It's nice to get started painting from life before diving in to the larger landscapes when your working from photos and sketches. I attempted to match the amazing green in these pears by mixing viridian with cad yellow and titanium white.

6x6 oil on panel

"One Lane Bridge" oil landscape painting from Amish country

This painting was done from a very vague photograph which I intentionally used to keep the painting impressionistic..I'm not quite sure I have conveyed enough information to make a good painting yet. I will probably go back into this one at some point.

11x14 oil on canvas for info contact robinweiss@earthlink.net

The preliminary sketch. Two Amish boys walking down the road in Holmes county Ohio.

"Sunset, Moonrise" Ohio barns, landscape painting

This is a scene I remember flying down the highway through the cornfields in Ohio as the sun was setting and the moon was rising.

12x16 oil on panel.

"Baling Hay" Amish country, Ohio, daily landscape painting

I have been preoccupied with a commission painting that is testing my skills and causing me to experiment with some different techniques. I won't be able to share that painting for awhile so there will be some delays in posting. Thanks for your patience.....

This was the last in the series of Amish country paintings I completed two weeks ago. I will get back to those! There are many more images I want to paint and some I will use for larger format paintings. We were fortunate to come across a field of grass that was being harvested and baled the Amish way.....Of course I was drawn to the light and to the "old world" feel of this scene.

6x8 oil on panel for purchasing info contact robinweiss@earthlink.net