Nice morning. Clear, no wind. Not sure this composition is working… Porthole Cove – Oil on Linen – 12×16
Category: Gallery Reception
Had a crisis of confidence this morning. Weather was gray, so I spent almost all morning seeking out sun inland. I found sun, but nothing inspiring to paint. It’s days
Did this little marsh study this afternoon for the San Luis Obispo Plein Air show. Ran into Gordon Luce–nice guy. Not a great photo, but gives you an idea of
First day of the competition, and thankfully awoke to sunshine. First sun I’ve seen here in the two days I’ve been here. Nice. I ended up painting this morning at
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
Back from my “Rocky Mountain High“, I’ve started evaluating the hundreds of reference photos I took and planning some studio paintings. Yes, Plein Air painters painting in the studio too:
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
Another gloomy, gray day this morning. Oh well. I decided to go out anyway and find something to paint, not expecting anything. I ended up doing one of the best
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