Today was the last painting day of the San Luis Obispo Plein Air competition, the “Quick Draw”. We were given 2 hours to complete a painting, followed by a live
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Tonight….was one of the best, ever. I won First Place at the San Luis Obispo Plein Air 2006! The SLO Art Center held a special reception tonight for collectors, a
I’m leaving Saturday morning for a week of painting as part of the San Luis Obispo Plein Air 2006 show. I’m really looking forward to this. It’s a much smaller
When I wrote a recent post, “Why Artists Should Blog“, I left out a very important point: the value of the community’s collective knowledge and feedback. Perhaps this was obvious,
This morning about 60 artists gathered downtown for the “Quickdraw”. For those of you not familiar with this, it is a timed plein air competition. We had 90 minutes to
I need to select paintings to frame tomorrow and Friday for the show. This is my current take on ranking them. The first 3 (in red text) will be jurried
Ah, another nice nap today before going out in the afternoon to paint until sunset–what a life! I ended up at Moraine Park, one of my favorite spots so far
I’m off the Estes Park, Colorado for their invitational plein air event, Thursday. The park is part of the larger Rocky Mountain National Park. Ten days of painting in the
Well, it was a bad weekend (except of course for the sales at Filoli, Ya!). I just was not thrilled to paint Crocket. I did one decent landscape of the
My painting “Last Light, Eucalyptus” was selected for the Estes Park Plein Air 2006 advertisement in Southwest Art Magazine (August, 2006 issue). I just shipped this painting to Morro Bay