Author: Ed Terpening

The trees are in bloom in San Francisco!  I think we had a false Spring, lots of warm weather the past few weeks, but the rains have returned.  I went

I like to paint cityscapes to practice learning to abstract scenes and focus on big shapes.  This was one such exercise.  There are just a couple of big shapes and

I’ve painted the same spot “en plein air” several times, so I’ve now begun to tackle some larger paintings in the studio. This isn’t essential, but I think it helps.

The weather in the Bay Area continues to be fantastic, although with all sunshine and no rain, we’ll pay for it this summer with drought.  I was able to meet

I was able to complete two paintings yesterday at Rodeo Beach, a new favorite painting spot in Marin County.  I’m going out again today with Brent Jensen. The weather is

I painted the both works below on Sunday–the first plein air, the second in my studio.  I suppose it’s fair to say it would be difficult for anyone to identify

I took snap shots of this painting in progress, and stitched them together to make a YouTube video (using iPhoto and iMovie).  These are  useful to others interested in my

Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day to paint.  The light could not have been clearer. It was an orange-yellow, which made the most perfect blue-violet shadows (shadow colors are generally

The small town of Ojai is (pronounced /?o?ha?/ ) is a city in Ventura County, California.  The city was founded as Nordhoff, until the time leading up to World War