practice instead of paying

Another one I did at Jackson Bottom Wetlands. I tried to stay in the shade because it got hot that day. Good exercise. 

This is another one I did in the morning at Jackson Bottom Wetlands in pastels.

Went out to Jackson Bottom wetlands early this morning and it was pretty much empty so I hiked aobut 2 miles and  sat in a field and did this little pastel.

Well I got them framed and now at Reed College for the Johnson Creek Watershed art show. It should be there about a month. Everyone seemd to like them so that was nice. Positive feedback.

Yeah! I got in the Johnson Creek Watershed show at Reeed College!  I love water. I got 2 pieces in and they will be there for about a month I think. I was looking at Johnson Creek and it looks like a good place to go do some studies. Hmmmmmm. Opening tomorrow nite. Artzy Happenings all over this area. What a bunch of artistic people we have here.

This was fun. I brought a little canvas notepad and scribbled in that instead af ruining a perfectly good canvas. I suppose this is my thumbnail. Now that I went thru a few kinks I think I will try and go back there with a perfectly good canvas and try the same scene. Hopefully I beat the dog people there. Gotta get up early .

As usual I started working on thi little study in the morning and then it gets hotter and I bail and go home and finish it. Well I could go back another morning and finish there .  By then I'm ready for another one. I suppose if I find one I really like I will spend more than a day on it. I've been thinking of doing some oil sketches also for fun. I watched a Jackson Pollack movie and he just took a big ole peice of canvas and poured a bunch of paint on it. I thought , huh.  wouldn't it be fun to take a rol of canvas and lay it out in the field and then splash a bunch of paint on it for a landscape but then I thought, how would I get it home. I'm sure if I left it there over night the cows would leave cow patties on it.Well there's acrylics. No I don't like those.A truck on those dirt roads would be intrusive I guess. Okay. One would have to do a smaller study and work from that when you go it to your studio. No worries. I don't have that much paint anyway.