December Thaw

I revisited my cow friends on Pt Gamble road. These three black angus seem to be taking care of this little hereford calf. SOLD

The painting is 10"x 14", watercolor on 300 lb arches wc. paper, signed by the artist. $120.00

Christmas Poinsettia 2 : dailly painting

I broke one of the stems off my poinsettia while I was trying to water it.. well, trying to get the wrap off the pot so I could water it. Thanks Lori for the idea of just putting a hole in the paper... duh.. I wish I would have checked my comments first. Anyhow I stuck it in my favorite blue vase and it looked pretty good so... another painting. One of these days I'm going to post all the paintings I have done with this vase in them, about five or six now. SOLD

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Poinsettia: dailly painting

Got the most beautiful poinsettia. couldn't help but paint it , before all the leaves fall off. I have terrible effects on these plants. as soon as they enter my house, they start looking like they are receiving chemo treatments. Doesn't matter where I put them, or what I do, pretty soon ,just a stick and a pot.

Porch Cat, daily painting

I tryed to add a cat to this porch painting. I don't know if it works very well. The cat kinda looks like an afterthought idea, which it was.

Indian Ponies

This past weekend, Fri, Sat and Sunday we were in White Swan WA. working on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Rising Light Ministry, headed by Briggs Macon is building a house for a Native American family whose house burned down five years ago. Since loosing their home they have been living in a haybale house with limited facilities. This is a view from the reservation done last summer.

Alder tree study: daily painting

Alder trees grow like weeds here in the Northwest. They grow best in wet areas and have bark similar to birch. This is a watercolor study of one.

Kiwis: watercolor ,still life,

Moonlight Snow: daily painting, winter landscape

I almost tossed this painting and then I added the falling snow and it somehow pulled it togeather for me, but I have been staring at it for too long. I would love a critique from some kind soul. SOLD

Shadow Fire: daily painting, winter landscape

Well the snow is gone. All melted away. It stayed longer than usual here in the Pacific Northwest and its a good thing. I almost ran off the road a few times looking at scenes I couldn't take my eyes off of. So I will work from some pictures for now... Never without my handy digital.SOLD

Lincoln Rd Farm: daily painting,winter landscape

You drive by a place everyday and hardly notice its there. Then it snows and the stage is set and the scene is spectacular. All you can do is attempt to render the fleeting beauty of the moment, like a quick praise to God.

Track Red:daily painting,abstract

Another installment of the "Outside the Box" series. Gotta do something with that leftover paint. Actually I think there is a paradigm shift happening in my artistic thought processes........or not. I don't know, I'm just thinking alot more about abstract design.

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November snow: daily painting,winter landscape

Well , delay the portland photo paintings. A huge ice and snow storm has hit the Seattle and surrounding areas,making for horrific driving and working conditions,but awsome painting opportunities. In watercolor its nice to have large white forms and space to work with, and snow affords those beautiful and dramatic compositions. SOLD

Two Crows

Portland was great. The Portland art museum has an impressive collection. Plus I spent alot of time going through the galleries, drinking coffee and taking pictures. I plan on working from my photographs, especially the rainy train yard shots. Also got to spend some quality time with my mom.
These two crows are waiting to see if I'm going to throw another french fry out the window. Its a grocery store parking lot in Purdy WA.
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Hurricane Ridge

The lodge at Hurricane Ridge. We love to pack as many kids in the old red van as can fit with all thier snow boards and head for the snow at H.R.

Highway to Mall Wart

Leaving for Portland on the Amtrack train Friday morning. I guess I will just be taking my sketch book along this trip, so there will be pencil sketches for a while till I can get in the studio to paint.

Indian Island Sketch

Alot of times I will do a value sketch before I do the painting. Heres one.

Rose Cascade

This painting sold as a fund raiser for Sacred Road Ministrys a christian group helping meet needs on the Yakima Indian reservation. They host teams from all over the US who paint and roof houses, do clean up and various small construction, as well as hosting vacation bible school for the kids at Totus Park in White Swan, WA.

Red Barn in Fall

Arts in The Woods ended with warm fairwells and a toast to Gods goodness in our lives. By all accounts a great success,and fun time. Looking forward to seeing everyone again soon and also joining Dan Rice and the Trumeau group on the 07 trip to Italy! More about that later.

Above is Sundays demo painting. The finished one came out blurry so this is the almost finished painting. sold

Still at Arts in the Woods

Dan Rice, from Trumeau college in Seattle Washington works on his demo. painting, at Arts in The Woods.

Above is another stab at the pomegranate in watercolor. I'll try somthing different today. The weather shaped up for saturday and we had a great turnout. Then we all had a wonderful turkey dinner at Claudia and Mike McKinstrys.

Arts in The Woods

Heres the set up for Arts in The Woods. What a blast . Had a good day of fellowship with good artist friends, drank alot of coffee, and met alot of great folks. A storm blew in with alot of rain but we still had a pretty good turn out. I was supposed to be demonstrating but all I got accomplished was this mediocre watercolor sketch of a pomegranate above.

Feeding the birds

This painting was done from a photograph I took about 20 years ago on the island of Ohau.

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On the road to Fort Flagler

Stopped by the side of the road to catch the light behind this little group of trees. This painting will be for sale at the " Arts in The Woods" show this weekend. With me, in the show will be studio owner Leigh Meteer, painter Claudia McKinstry, painter, lecturer, instuctor, Daniel Rice, photographer , Tom Leyton, wood turner and old buddy, Floyd Walker . .

Grace Awakening

Heres another in my breaking out of the box series. I spent the weekend setting up for " Arts in The Woods" , It will take place Nov. 10th,11th,12th, next weekend . I will be at the Leigh Knowles studio on Noll rd in beautifull Poulsbo WA. So I got no painting done, except for this abstract. I used up all the leftover paint on my pallet, an idea from Diane Whitehead. Sorry about the photo . Its awfull.
Thanks for the comments Gene. Heres a little truer pic of the painting

Don"t Look Back

November has hit the Pacific Northwest. Took a picture while I was driving today,and then did a sketch. It rained all day. Miserable to work in, but awsome for cool atmosphere,and vague misty shapes looming out of the soupy sludge.

LaPush is one of my favorite beaches on the Washington coast. I spent two days trying to paint , and taking pictures. It was really windy. I spent the night in Pt Townsend and then headed for the coast. It started out dark and rainy, but soon after I arrived in LaPush the sun came out and it was awsome. They have these cool islands off the coast they call Sea Stacks, and lots of atmosphere, the roar of surf, tons of driftwood, and everywhere you turn , a painting.

Liberty Bay Estuary

Started out really foggy today. I wanted to do a painting with some water in it, so I picked a spot I have been wanting to paint . This is the Liberty bay estuary. Very cool spot, they are building a " fish park" on the property opposite this side. Unfortunately the painting didn't work out. I think I will do some more to it using the pictures I took. If it gets better I will post it.

Red Rhodies

I like the abstract qualities of this little painting. I'm learning to use bigger brushes and more pigment, lots of water to soften edges and let colors bleed. Watercolor is alot of fun.

Sumatsu farm

This is the second painting I did on saturday. I didn't get it to the completion I was hoping for. I had trouble with the pumpkins , getting the right colors for the sunlit side and the shadow. I need some lessons from Mick McGinty on that. Don't know how he does it. Probably should do some color charts. Anyhow people kept coming over to look and talk, so I wasn't quite as focused. also I was getting tired, but just having lots of fun.

Dottie's place

Heres the set up for todays plein air painting. Took me awhile to get going. there was a long line at starbucks this morning, and then I show up with my one gallon thermos jug. They weren't very happy with me.
I painted this with you in mind Tanner. See, you can enter the scene. The trees are firmly planted, coming out of the ground. There is space, and all that stuff. What ya think?

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Mt Ranier

Mount Ranier is the majestic backdrop for many beautiful vistas in the Pacific Northwest, where I am blessed to live. SOLD

leaves

A couple weeks ago I went on a hike up the Dungeness river trail with a group from church. Heres a painting from one of the pictures I took , and the preliminary sketch. THIS PAINTING IS SOLD

moonrise

Well since I am pretty slow on the uptake I just realized its dumb for me to be posting birdhouses on my painting blog . Sorry to all about that. Heres a quick sketch in ultramarine blue , my favorite color.

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red roofs

Another view of the buildings at the Point no Point lighthouse in Hansville Washington. I didn't make it to the Dungeness this weekend due to various obstacles. Little things like work, life , food, health, can conspire against the best laid painting plans. I'll try again next week. sold

Fall

I'm putting up an older fall painting for the weekend. I'm taking off to go back up the Dungeness river. I saw alot of great painting spots last week end. This time I will take my paints and try to capture the fall colors on the river. Can't wait.

Apples in Blue

The red ripening apples are drawing my attention. I keep stopping and taking pictures of them hanging from the trees and laying on the ground. The colors just glowing as if there are lights inside.

summer fading

The spirea blossoms turning from lavender to rust. Ah.. the summers fading to fall. Every season has its beauty. Every flower its fading glory.