Two Roses

"Two Roses", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board

Between all the trips and plein air painting, packing and unpacking, driving to far away places, the heat and the cold and carrying the gear--sometimes its a relief to be out on the deck with a couple of flowers, just smusching the paint around.

Zangle Gray Day

"Zangle Gray Day", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board

The last Zangle Cove painting was done with a palette knife. This very small painting was done with a big round brush. The experiment is the joy of painting.

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Zangle Cove

"Zangle Cove", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board

Since I'm working to protect Zangle Cove from industrial geoduck aquaculture, I've decided to do a series of Zangle Cove paintings!  Its always there, ever changing and beautiful.  And across the way we have a pair of Bald Eagles sitting on their nest.  They often come to this tideland to feed--the site of the proposed geoduck farm.

To learn about industrial geoduck aquaculture, read "This Isn't Your Grandfather's Oyster Farm" at this link:
http://coalitiontoprotectpugetsoundhabitat.org/?p=479

All proceeds from sales of my Zangle Cove paintings, and I've done many in the past s well, will go towards legal costs of protecting our beautiful cove.

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Grand Canyon, End of Day

3/12/15 "Grand Canyon, End of Day", 6 x 6, Oil on Museum Board, Framed

There were two "6x6" shows over the holidays.  All the paintings I submitted for these shows were of the Grand Canyon. Some of the paintings came back, nicely framed, and this is one of them.

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Grand Canyon Rapids

"Grand Canyon Rapids", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board

This was one of the paintings that went to one of the 6 x 6 In shows over the holidays.

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Grand Canyon Sky - NFS

"Grand Canyon Sky", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board, NFS
This is one of the small 6" squared paintings I did for the Holiday Show at the Southwind Gallery in Kansas. I have been on the 200 miles rafting/painting trips three times down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. There is nothing like this 8 day trip.

Zangle Cove Winter Red

"Zangle Cove Winter Red", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another painting of the Cove, pushing the reds and violets of winter.

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Zangle Cove Winter - NFS

"Zangle Cove Winter", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board
The cove is always here in front of me, winter or summer. Its not that easy to paint, even after all these years, but sometimes I like the winter best, because the colors are so different from the summer greens of Western Washington.

Mongolian Woman - NFS

"Mongolian Woman", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Panel
This is another small portrait from my China photos. It seems like an excellent idea to practice small portraits because in a bigger painting, the face could be small. I'm trying to learn how to do it with just a few brushstrokes.

Chinese Village Girl - NFS

"Chinese Village Girl", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Panel NFS
This little girl attached herself to our small group of painters when we were taken to a nearby village from our studio out in the countryside near Jilin in 2005. It was early October and the villagers were cutting the corn. It was a very beautiful time of year in that area of China.

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Girl with Scarf - NFS

"Girl with Scarf", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board,
This is part of the 6 x 6 series I started two or three weeks ago. Some of them I'm going to enter in the "6 x 6" contest coming up, but I haven't figure out which ones. So for now, its not for sale.

Yellow Apple - NFS

"Yellow Apple", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board NFS
As strange as this small size seems to me sometimes, on this day it was just a relief, having little time because of other appointments. Sometimes its good just to deal with basically one object--well, two, but they were connected.

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Girl in Hooded Cloak - NFS

"Girl in Hooded Cloak", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board NFS
This is another small format painting. I'm finding it interesting to switch between these very small paintings and larger ones.

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Shadowed Face

"Shadowed Face", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Canvas
This painting was a struggle--to get plane changes with small changes in color and value when the face is almost entirely in shadow. It is a very good exercise.

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On the Bike - NFS

"On the Bike", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board NFS
Back to the small paintings, this is from a photograph I took in a rural farming area of Northeastern China--a photo that I've looked at for a long time and wondered if I could make anything of it. So it was fun just going at it.

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Mongolian Herder

"Mongolian Herder", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board
Its a good exercise to do these small portraits because even if the painting itself is larger, the head of a figure is often small. This is from a photo taken in 2005 when a small group of us took an excursion from Jove Wang's studio near Jilin, China, to Inner Mongolia--a province of China.

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Chinese Woman - NFS

"Chinese Woman" 6 x 6 In, Oil on Panel
When I compared this photo I took of this painting a couple of days ago to the painting in my drying rack, I realized I must have gone in after the fact to "fix" the painting and the "fix" took all the life out of it. Any portrait study of a face mostly in shadow can be difficult for me, so I'm keeping this photo as a reminder of where I should have stopped with the painting as a study. Sometimes its best for the sake of learning to forge ahead, but other times...

Liz - NFS

"Liz", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Panel
This is another in my series of 6 x 6 In canvases--an intriguing task for someone like me who likes to use a big brush. Liz is my daughter and you can listen to her music by clicking on the songs on the right side of my blog.

Worker - NFS

"Worker", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another small painting in my 6 x 6 inch series. Its still a challenge for me to paint on such a small surface, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. I have two painting friends here with me for a few days and we had a great time today painting Zangle Cove as the light changed every five minutes with the weather coming in and we also set up a still life. Painting can be so solitary, especially in the winter, that it is wonderful to paint with friends.

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The Professor

"The Professor", 6 x 6 In, Oil on Canvas
With this small format, I have to keep myself from painting outside the lines!

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