Day 2, Rose Study

                                          "Rose Study" oil 6x8 in.  $75.00 click here to purchase 

New Years Roses

Happy 2015! 

After several years I am restarting up my blog to feature the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge I have signed up for. Leslie Saeta has created this challenge and it should be a lot fun and hopefully improve my painting skills. January is a busy month and I may have to paint a couple a day to make up for some traveling I am doing but my goal will be to post a small study each day. Here is the first one.

"New Years Roses"  $75.00 click here to purchase. 

Plein Air Show Downtown

"The Red Chicken Coop" Oil on Linen 8x10 in.

I am pleased to be particpating in a wonderfull show with Plein Air Austin in the Chase Bank building.   I saw the show last night and its a great selection of work all painted from life. If your in downtown Austin please stop by and see the show.

"In the Plein Air Tradition: Art on Location"
July 12th – September 13th, 2009

Corridor of Arts, Chase Bank Building
700 Lavaca Street, Austin, Texas

Another from Michigan

North of Charlevoix, Oil on Linen 6x8

I painted this on a pretty cloudy and grey Michigan day and temps were only in the low 70's. That weather feels strange after living in Texas. As I painted the sun came out in the distance which I tried to capture in the piece.  I was up there delivering a painting for the Crooked Tree Art's center's De Art auction. They are a great arts center that does a lot of promote and teach art in that area. If you ever get up to Northern Michigan the Petoskey Charlevoix, and Harbor Springs area is really nice with many nice galleries and beautiful views of Lake Michigan.  

Up in Michigan,

"Bridge Study" Oil on Linen 6x8 in. 

I am up in Northern Michigan for a week of painting and hanging out where I grew up. After living in Texas for a few years its fun to come back and paint the area that first got me hooked on landscape painting. Yesterday I went out painting with a good friend of mine Ken Cadwallader. He is a really fine painter who still works the old fashioned way doing all of his work from life. I went out with him while he worked on a 30x40 of a bridge at a Grand Rapids park. He goes out and works for a few hours on day on each piece while the light is good then returns consecutive days until he is done. I took the easy route and just did a little 6x8 study of the bridge. 

Island Palm II

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Island Palm II original oil 6x8.  I was down on South Padre for my fathers sixty ninth birthday recently and I did this little painting. Funny how when I am there I always end up painting palm trees but I love there shapes and colors and each one is unique. This one was also done on a new surface for me shellacked illustration board. This surface has a neat feel to it, almost like oil primed linen and its really inexpensive to make. A lot of painters use musem board which is pretty expensive but the illustration board is much cheaper and also 100% rag and acid free. 

Small Study,

Tree study, oil 5x7

Its been a while since I have posted anything. I have been painting a lot but its been more larger on location work that I might post down the road a little bit. This is  a little study I painted after a run at town lake last week. I usually park in the lots by Barton Springs and this tree caught my eye. BTW the Marble arts Music festival went well. I sold a painting and had a lot of fun out there. I just got my work back and might post some when I get them photographed.