Lopez Cloud Study

"Lopez Cloud Study", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board, 2012

This is from a trip to Lopez Island in the San Juans.

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Sky over Lopez

"Sky over Lopez", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board

This painting is from a trip in 2018 to Lopez Island in the San Juans.

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Marsh at Salt Creek

"Marsh at Salt Creek", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board

Salt Creek is a favorite painting spot near Port Angeles on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Hood Canal Sky

"Hood Canal Sky", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board

This is a little sketch I did last summer on the Plein Air Washington paint out on Hood Canal. The long highway along the Canal, next to the Olympia Mountains, is one of my favorite areas of the Puget Sound region--I have many memories from my teen years of going to camp in the summer on Hood Canal, canoeing on the water and backpacking in the mountains.

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Hood Canal

"Hood Canal", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board
This painting is from last summer--a fast sketch from the Dosewallips State Park on the banks of Hood Canal. Hood Canal is a long arm of Puget Sound that backs up to the Olympic Mountains--a place with so many childhood memories of canoeing on the Canal and hiking in the mountains. This view is looking east to the low hills on the other side of the Canal.

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Point Wilson Lighthouse

"Point Wilson Lighthouse", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is painting from Fort Worden State Park near Port Townsend, Washington. I joined others from our group, Plein Air Washington, when we were painting the State Parks in 2013. I am unearthing these paintings in my studio. Even with Photoshop, it is difficult to get the image right. In the actual painting, the lighthouse is bright white, the trees are not quite so dark and the sky is maybe a bit darker and pinker. The brushwork is a different space in my hand/head. Sometimes there is meaning in just slapping on the paint. Here is the history of Point Wilson Lighthouse and one of my friends, Jane Wallis, painting on the beach.

Mt. Rainier from Spray Park - NFS

"Mt. Rainier from Spray Park", 6 x 8 In, Oil on Museum Board
I painted this view of the northwest face of Mt. Rainier sitting on a big rock in Spray Park quite a few years ago. My husband, kids and I hiked to the vast and beautiful alpine meadows of this elevation from Mowich Lake. The painting is a sketch that includes so many memories that its not one I could part with.

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Zangle Cove Sketches 2 - NFS

"Zangle Cove Sketches 2", 6 x 8 Inch Each, Oil on Panel NFS
This is the second set of 15 minutes sketches of Zangle Cove that I did last week with my painting friends. It was late in the day and the sky was continually changing as the clouds swept across the sky. I am so use to this beautiful changing view that it took my friends to point out to me how amazing it really is.

Zangle Cove Sketches 1 - NFS

"Zangle Cove Sketches 1", 6 x 8 In each, Oil on Panel NFS
When my friends were here last week, the weather moving across the Cove was dramatic and ever changing. We had done the 10-minute still life exercise in the morning and in the afternoon decided we would do quick sketches of Zangle Cove. Our goal was 15 minutes each and we pretty much kept to that! These were my first two.

Mt. Stewart

7/23/10 "Mt. Stewart", 6" x 8", Oil
Today was spent entirely in a process of experimentation--of trying to figure out how to re-do a painting and actually make it different. Several tries were scraped off. Above is one of the results.

Zangle Cove #21

7/7/10 "Zangle Cove #21", Oil, 6" x 8"
This small ten minute sketch of the sky over the Cove was one of a series done last week early in the morning.    I didn't write down the exact time, but the land was dark and muted.  Right now I'm in Oregon painting along the Columbia Gorge--more of that later.