Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Fort Casey Beach Road


"Fort Casey Beach Road", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

Sometimes I look at a view and it doesn't seem like much and so the lack of a definitive or
spectacular subject becomes a different kind of lesson. It requires a different kind of thinking.

I wish I could tell you what went on in my mind after those first thoughts about this view,
but I don't remember! But I'm guessing, looking at the painting now, that it had a lot to do
with sticking to abstraction.


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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Malign Lake


"Malign Lake", 10 x 12, Oil on Museum Board

This is one of the beautiful Lakes in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Members of our group, Plein Air Washington, painted there for a week in July. It was 90 degrees most days and a forest fire began in one of the canyons we had painted in the day before.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Coupeville Wharf



"Coupeville Wharf", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board

I painted this same scene years ago in a plein air competition and won an award, so I was scared silly doing it again. But the fact is, every painting is different--the tide at the very least is different, not to speak of the state of mind and feelings. The hand is different as well, as strange as that is. I always think I will just progress in some direction, but its not to be--the direction takes its own turns.

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Beach at Fort Casey


"Beach at Fort Casey", 10 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
I painted from this spot right above the beach at Fort Casey several years ago. It is strange how paintings have their own memory separate from the scene that I am painting.

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