I'm Ready!

Just received a shipment from Jerry's Artarama with some new paints, 9x12 panels, and a few new brushes and other odds and ends.  Finished putting the handle on my homemade wet canvas carrier.  And went over Thomas Kitts checklist of things to bring for the workshop.  Got it!  Check!

Headin' off for some camping up at Little Crater Lake tomorrow with my three favorite girls and then Monday morning headin' out to Sauvie Island bright and early for the first day of the plein air workshop.  I'm excited...a whole week painting with a great artist.  He'll hand out the list of other painting locations on Monday.

Ooooh...midnight...I better get some sleep!

Happy New Year!

Just couldn't let 1-1-11 go by without at least posting a something.  Took two weeks off for the holidays...what a way to end 2010.  So much fun!  Santa brought me some new Sennelier oil pastels - the 24 landscape pastels and some watercolor pencils.  Haven't done much with colored pencil, let alone watercolor pencils, but I thought I might try using those as an underpainting for some OPs. 

Hope everyone had a great and safe New Years and here's looking forward to 2011!  Will post more paintings soon! 

Joined Three Rivers Artist Guild - TRAG

Well, went to my second TRAG meeting last night and decided to join.  Pretty exciting to see such an active artist community right here in my own backyard.  Looks like they have some cool stuff coming up this year with lot's of opportunity to get my work out in front of some people.  Ahhh, now I just need more pieces...need to learn about framing my OPs...need to paint, paint, paint. 

You can learn more about TRAG by going to there website - Three Rivers Artist Guild.

Been working on another OP from a photo I took in our garden.  A nice bright shot of a pumpkin bloom with a honeybee workin' it.  Still to early to show, but I'll get something up here soon.