Using pastels and or colored pencils to achieve images that are appealing to me. Fell free to leave a comment .
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Went to the Astoria Open studios gallery. Some nice landscapes up there and a sunny day. These in this picture I think are a Robert Paulmenn.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Oh I did get an Honorable mention at the Yamhill Lavender Festival this year which was a surprise because of all the other great artists that participated this year. So that was nice and encouraging.
Started a plein air but think i will go back into it and see what comes of it. If I'm going do to these layering ones I'll have to do more than one at a time. Well I guess they have a site called 3 at a time so that makes sense. I have to go get a new Pochade box. A bigger one since i have an appetite for bigger work.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
took another pass at this one this morning. Might go out again in the morning. Can't stay all day. It's a bit hot for me.
Friday, July 11, 2014
Went out this morning to work on shapes and color. It wasn't too bad until about noon. I tried to hurry a little to beat the heat. But it's worth it. this was a one time study but I would like to do some that take more than one day.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
This is a plein air oil I did at the beginning of the Yamhill Lavender festival paintout. The location is Mountainside lavender which is a favorite of many artists. The owners there encourage artists to come and paint . I did five studies in all and visited about seven locations. It should be a real interesting show with many participants and styles. My aim in participating was to explore more oils. Yipee! I received an honorable mention for this one at the Yamhill Lavender Festival.
Yamhill Lavender Festival paintout I went to several of the locations while they were open but only chose two for the show. This one is oil plein air of Goat Mountain which is one of the backgrounds for "The Meadow of Lavender" field. I usually work in pastels but wanted a change so I tried oils for this event. It was a pretty field and there was a newspaper woman there my son said was photographing me while I painted which was surprising because i didn't even know it . So perhaps in some printing there is a photo of me somewhere. Who knows.
