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I received a nice email today. A newspaper in Marin has asked permission to reprint my painting below in an article they’re doing on Angel Island. Cheers! Angel Island Harbor

Over the coming months I plan to launch a series of posts that expose what I consider my top 10 observations as a plein air painter. Many of these apply

Here’s the second of the two studies I painted Saturday at Crystal Springs. I’m happy with the subtle colors of the background hills–in particular the variation between trees in shado

I painted two good plein air studies yesterday, this is the first, “Crystal Springs, Toward the Sun”. I’m currently reading Emille Grupe’s text on painting, and in it he writes

I was browsing through my favorite artists (see right side bar) and came across this painting by Charles Movalli. Wow! This is how I want to paint, with abandon: free

Here’s my second painting from yesterday, from Pescadero Point on the 17-Mile Drive in Carmel. The photograph is a bit washed-out compared to the original. I wish I lived close

I paid my dues yesterday with mixed weather–today was fantastic! I completed two paintings and met several other local artists, including renowned portrait artist Bart Lindstrom, a really nice guy.

I guess I’m an optimist, because once again I believed the weather man when “clear skys” was forecast for Carmel. It ended up being mostly cloudy, but I did find

This was painted the same day as my last post.  This was a really inspirational spot.  I don’t know what they were exactly, but these red/orange winter bushes were on

Wow, a great beautiful day today on the Sonoma coast! I did this study and another I’ll post tomorrow. I hope to drive down to Monterey county to paint the