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Paintings and Drawings 2020-2024
Painting categories
Paintings on paper
Oil paintings on Arches paper from studio series.
Paintings on canvas
Oil paintings on stretched canvas from studio series.
Plein air paintings
Paintings on stretched canvas done on location directly from nature.
Watercolor and gouache
Classic landscape
Water-based paints provide freedom for expressive color mixing that oil colors cannot. The flowing pigments merge to create smooth fluid blends that mimic how the eye sees natural elements.
Exploring our backyard
Gouache offers a more solid color foundation that has the look of illustration suitable for strongly defined edges. It offers a great alternate to the softer blends of watercolor while still retaining the character of transparent washes.
Figurative
Figure in landscape
Water-based paints provide freedom for expressive color mixing that oil colors cannot. The flowing pigments merge to create smooth fluid blends that mimic how the eye sees natural elements.
Portraits
Gouache offers a more solid color foundation that has the look of illustration suitable for strongly defined edges. It offers a great alternate to the softer blends of watercolor while still retaining the character of transparent washes.
Plein air paintings
Heading out
Working plein air is always rapid and direct. It requires quick decisions and keen observation. Light and shadows change quickly and must be defined in the first sitting. It’s generally a one-step process that ends once the artist packs up their gear and leaves.
Favored locations
Since every potential site poses challenges in setting up and weather conditions, artists often select locations that are most amenable to painting. Working with oil paints is especially challenging on location, but have the qualities most adaptable to rapid brushwork and fluid mixing of colors.
Cityscape
Experience of the city
Streets make up a city. Pastel houses align with grays and greens, and on sunny days, deep blue shadows form before the structures. Combining azure blues and emerald greens of the bay and viridian of the distant headlands, enhances the natural beauty of the setting.
Exploring our backyard
From a high spot in the west end of the city, one can see the symmetry of the streets, the park, the bay and the headlands beyond.
Landscape in oils
The simple compositions
If one looks at the everyday places that we frequent, arrangement of simple landscape compositions can be found in abundance.
Finding special places
There’s a spot in the park that reminds me of the places that French impressionists favored for the tranquil atmosphere of warm and colorful foliage and water. I called this spot a Jurassic pond because of the prehistoric plants that gardeners tend to there.
New locations
Materials at the ready
Travel is an essential source of new subjects for painting. I usually work on locations directly with watercolor or acrylic paints to gain a feel for what I want to paint later with oils. Fall colors and the Washington State coastline appealed to me as naturally “fauvist” compositions.
Similar yet different
Landscapes of trees and water and reflected light have been a favorite subject of mine. Seeing these elements in new settings inspires new interpretations of these themes.
Experience
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