Well, despite the “Orange” national security threat, I arrived in Colorado in one piece yesterday. It was actually a very trouble free flight and the person who checked my ID
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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
As some of you know, in addition to my art career, I work part-time for Wells Fargo (the 4th largest bank in the US). Since I can’t support myself with
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
I received a nice email from Filoli today, two of my three paintings sold the first weekend of the show! “It was great fun because the buyer was from the
I have just received a new book well worth checking out, “Joaquin Sorolla” by Blanca Pons-Sorolla. The book is filled with astonishing images. I’ve of course seen his work in
Hey, this is cool. I got a call today from the Chancelor of the Biology School at UC Berkely asking permission to use the painting below on a poster advertising
In a previous post, I lamented my struggles with color–specifically, finding a balance between grays and pure color. I received good feedback in comments (thanks Jan and Bart) and made
After Monet produced his series of water lilly paintings, can anyone else take them on? It is a beautiful subject and coincidentally the “birth flower” of July. When I was
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