I had the pleasure of painting with Brent Jensen today in Golden Gate Park. Brent and I met years ago at a plein air event, and have tried keeping in
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One of the ongoing challenges I am working on is a balance between colorism (pushing local color) and tonalism (photographic accurate value and color). A technique I have been using
Gold Country Plein Air was the kick-off event for what will be at least five plein air paint-outs I’m scheduled for this year, including: Telluride Plein Air ( June 28th-July
Today’s event was a public paint-out on the grounds around Mountain Springs Gold Course. It seemed a bit out of the way to me, but ended up being surprisingly well
It’s still raining here this morning (supposed to clear, keep your fingers crossed), so I spent the morning fixing the pond in “Mountain Springs Sunset”, and also framed the first
Great morning! Clear, wonderful. Headed up to Pinecrest to paint the late. A bit of a drive (30 miles, and I needed to be back in Sonora for the artist’s
Well, the day started out sweet, with Dottie’s special “Peaches & Cream” French toast. Nice. It was good I ate a nice big breakfast, because I slept much of the
Full day of painting today, despite killer allergies. I completed these three studies, in order during the day. What do you think? Any good enough for the show Saturday? This
Not much to report: spent 5 hours driving to Yosemite; got flipped-off by a speeding teenager (God, I feel old sometimes); my car broke down; and I painted one “scraper”.
I’m off to Yosemite tomorrow to paint for the Gold Country Plein Air show next weekend. Spent the day getting my gear ready. Viewing those nice new piles of paint