Study based on Kevin MacPherson

This start is based on a demo in Kevin MacPherson's Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color.  Great book as far as I can tell!  I like is loose style which is something very hard for me to do...must be the engineer in me...gotta' make those paintings precise ;-)  Anyhow, this one is just a rough start focusing on shapes and colors.

Country Scene based on Elizabeth Tolley Demo

Started this one a while back and picked it up again last night.  Just adding more color and various touches.  Just a 6x8 canvas board.  I got a whole stack of these small canvas boards to practice various paint sketches.  With the weather finally getting nice I think I'm gonna' take my painting outside and try my first plein aire soon!

WIP - Carmel by the Sea

Came back to a painting I started over a year ago based on a picture a friend of mine took on a vacation.  Still much to do, but added in the beginnings for the flowers and foliage. Wiped out some detail on the stairs to redo later.  Man, stairs are tough to get right. 

Been awhile...

Been awhile since I posted any new paintings.  Finally, finished this one I've been working on for awhile...or maybe it's not finished yet...I'm not happy with the upper left corner and the paper's not taking much more OP.   Not sure about the top part of the leaf on the left side either...it has sunlight coming across it, but I don't I conveyed that very well.  Well, all part of learning!!

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.

Small landscape - WIP

Made a little a time for painting tonight, yea!  Just a little 6x8 oil based on a demo out of Elizabeth Tolley's Oil Painter's Solutions Book Landscapes.  What a great little book loaded with all kinds of great information and tips.

I think I'm gonna' try a number of these little 6x8's just to get in the practice sketching the paintings out quicker. 

Finally, some Christmas vacaton painting!

I usually take vacation the week between Christmas and New Years, but I always miss out on all the fun leading up to Christmas.  So this year I took the week before Christmas off!  Been havin' lot's of fun with my wife and girls.

Also, visited a few local galleries here in Oregon City.  Even found out about a local organization called the Three Rivers Guild which I'm going have to check out on their next meeting.  Looks like a great way to meet some other artists in this area.

So here's a few things I did today.  Continued work on an existing piece and sketched out a quick sketch for a new 6"x8" piece.  I'm going to try and knock out some smaller paintings and work on painting a little looser and simplify, simplify, simplify!