Oils on 9×12″ canvas panel
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In the interest of sharing my learning process in oils, I’ve posted this painting and some of my teacher’s critique. There are so many problems with this plein air plus studio painting that it seems to prove Dee Farnsworth’s saying, “Plein air is French for ‘bad landscape painting.’” I like [...]
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All are drawn in ink and painted with watercolor in small Moleskine watercolor notebook
Yesterday was Sketchcrawl 15 and I joined a friendly, talented group of artists (including Oakland artist Carrie, Sonoma county artist Natalie, Cathy from East Bay Plein Air Painters, and fellow art-bloggers Martha, Vern and Pete) on Berkeley’s Fourth Street [...]
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Ink in moleskine sketchbook
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It seems like only yesterday that we had the annual sexual harassment and discrimination training for managers but it was actually last October which I was able to check by doing a search on my blog for the drawings from that meeting. At first I was [...]
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Watercolor on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico hot press paper
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This week’s Everyday Matters’ challenge is Draw a Peach. I’ve been eating at least one juicy sweet peach a day all summer. I start the day with a peach cut up in a bowl of cereal for breakfast and have one cut up [...]
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Oil on panel, 12×9″
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Yesterday I went out painting in Alameda with my plein air group. The view was delightful, the people were warm and friendly (both the group and the natives), the weather was nearly perfect and the city had actually blocked off a lane on the bridge (for construction–not for us) [...]
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Micron Pigma Ink in small Moleskine notebook
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I attended my first school board meeting tonight to join with about 70 people from my neighborhood association to speak out against the planned school for expelled students in a former elementary school in my neighborhood. Many residents, including several who are teachers and/or work [...]
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Watercolor in large watercolor Moleskine notebook
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I worked on an oil painting portrait all afternoon and evening with frustrating results. So I decided to do a quick watercolor sketch to comfort myself. I actually ended up doing this onion twice. The first version was yucky and overworked so I gave myself a [...]
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Oil on Raymar Panel 9×12″
Sadly I wasn’t feeling well enough to join the Benicia Plain Air Painters at Mare Island Friday and Saturday. I was fighting a cold (I won…after 12 hours sleep last night!). On Saturday it took me until 2:00 in the afternoon to get out of my jammies [...]
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Oil on panel, 8×6″
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Tomorrow I’m planning to go to a paint-out on Mare Island in Vallejo with a group of plein air painters based in Benicia. The organizer of the event posted some photos and a map of where we’ll be painting and I thought I’d get a head start by doing [...]
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Ink and watercolor in HandBook Co. Journal notebook
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I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the toilet in the “cat bathroom” (my second bathroom where I keep the cat litter box). I took the lid off the tank and was watching the ball thingee go up and the flapper go [...]
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Ink in Moleskine notebook
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When I finished drawing these people at the neighborhood meeting, I realized I’d compressed the space so that people are crammed together much more than they actually were. I wish I would have thought to capture some of the angry expressions as people spoke instead of everyone just [...]
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Oil on RayMar panel, 12 x 9″ (Click to see larger)
This is my first “official” plein air oil painting that I did at the Berkeley Marina this morning where I joined a group of local plein air painters. I’m so thrilled to have found them. We met at 10:00 and then went off to to [...]
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All are ink in small Moleskine sketchbook. This guy (above) had huge fleshy ears and his headphones barely covered them. He got off really quickly or I would have done more studies of his ears which enthralled me (I’m easily amused).
She slept the whole way home. I always wonder whether soundly sleeping people miss [...]
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