Watercolor on Arches Hot Press paper in 5.5 x 7.5″ sketchbook
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Last night was Cody’s birthday party at Hunan Villa in Pinole. There were 10 of us sitting around the table celebrating, with good food and good company. Halfway through dinner we all noticed the table seemed to be rocking back and forth and so did [...]
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Posted in Gardening, Ink, Painting, Plants, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, tagged Drawing, Painting, sketchbook, tomatoes, Watercolor on October 28, 2007 | 20 Comments »
Watercolor on Arches 140 lb hot press paper drawn first in blue Micron Pigma pen, 5.5″ 7.5″
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Yesterday I cleaned up my four tomato plants, removing all the dead leaves and icky, gooshy tomatoes (without screaming once — squooshy, slimey things scare me) and was delighted to discover an abundance of still quite lovely tomatoes, ripe [...]
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Oil on canvas panel, 8×6″
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After feeling like I’d taken one big step forward with my painting on Saturday, in Sunday’s painting class I felt like I’d taken two giant steps backwards. I wasn’t inspired by the view of dry, grayish rolling hills and just kept putting paint down, deciding it was all wrong, and [...]
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Oil on Masonite Panel, 12×9″
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I’ve been studying oil painting for months, reading piles of books, learning from others, watching endless painting videos (some that are literally “like watching paint dry”), taking a class and practicing every chance I get. Last week it seemed that despite my study and “book learning,” while I had the [...]
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Watercolor on Arches cold pressed paper in sketchbook, 7×5.5″
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I was so tired tonight after all day meetings at work (and staying up painting very late last night) that all I wanted to do was go to bed as soon as I got home. But my painting group was coming over and I was looking [...]
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Oil on Masonite panel, 9″x12″
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This morning on the way to work I started thinking about yesterday’s painting of Inspiration Point and how what I painted didn’t really represent the colors I saw and generally annoyed me. I started sketching and taking notes about for making another painting of the scene. Also yesterday I talked [...]
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Posted in Art theory, Landscape, Oil Painting, Other artists, Outdoors/Landscape, Painting, Photos, Plein Air, tagged Landscape, Oil Painting, Plein Air, Tilden Park on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Oil on panel, 9×12″
Sunday was my plein air oil painting class in Tilden Park and we met at Inspiration Point in Tilden Park in the Berkeley Hills. On a clear day you can see far into the distance from this site. Unfortunately, when we arrived at 9:00 a.m. the fog was so thick we could [...]
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Micron Pigma .005 pen in Moleskine sketchbook
One of my favorite musical groups –The Fishtank Ensemble — was playing at the Freight & Salvage tonight and Michael and I went to hear them. I’ve posted about them before so won’t go into details except to say they’re fabulous! You can hear some of their gypsy jazz/klemer/flamenco [...]
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Posted in Art theory, Faces, Life in general, Moleskine, Painting, People, Portrait, Sketchbook Pages, Watercolor, tagged , Portrait, self-portrait, Watercolor on October 11, 2007 | 29 Comments »
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Watercolor in large Moleskine notebook
Today at work, 10 of us were sitting around the table in the lunchroom eating and chatting. I sat across from our director, facing the picture window and our 27th-story view of Oakland, the San Francisco Bay, Mt. Tamalpais and the huge, cloudy sky. I was thinking about what I [...]
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Posted in Art theory, Color studies, Flower art, Glass, Oil Painting, Other artists, Painting, Still Life, tagged Art theory, dahlias, Oil Painting, painting teacher, yellow flowers on October 9, 2007 | 17 Comments »
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Oil paint on gessoed mat board, 12×7.5″
Sunday was my first plein air oil painting workshop with Elio Camacho and it was fabulous! Elio is not only a wonderful painter, but he’s a fantastic teacher — so energetic, enthusiastic and generous in sharing everything he knows (which is a lot!).
Although Elio covered a huge amount of [...]
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Ink and watercolor in small Moleskine watercolor sketchbook
My mom’s visit started with a cat attack and ended with a bomb threat at the airport (which extended her stay an extra day). My sister picked her up at the airport and as they walked in her door, Marcy started to tell my mom not to [...]
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Ink and watercolor in Aquabee sketchbook
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To preserve my sanity I squeezed in a quick sketch in the half hour before I had to leave for my great aunt’s 90th birthday party at her club. I should be primping and trying to make myself look like I belong at a fancy country club in an [...]
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Posted in Drawing, Faces, Ink, Other artists, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages, Subway drawings, tagged , BART, Drawing, Micron Pigma, Moleskine, sketchbook, subway drawing on October 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Chubby cyclist. He was so stuffed into his clothes it must have been uncomfortable — but I give him lots of credit for riding his bike to and from the BART station instead of driving there like I do.
All drawings Micron Pigma pen in small Moleskine notebook
Sound asleep and resting comfortably after a long [...]
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I knew there was something wrong with the composition of this painting in progress that I started in July but I wasn’t sure what the problem was. [...]
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