Farmland Idaho

"Farmland Idaho", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

I like painting with a palette knife. Every stroke of the knife is descriptive and can contain variations of color and thickness. I can do that with a brush, too, but the palette knife calls out to lay it down and leave it alone.

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Idaho Sky

"Idaho Sky", 6 x 9 In, Oil, 2021

An image from one of my painting trips to Idaho.

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Sinopah

"Sinopah", 12 x 10 In, Oil, 2018

Painted in 2018 during a painting trip to Glacier National Park.

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Base of the Mountain

"Base of the Mountain", 9 x 12 In, Oil

Escalante landscape

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Little Tahoma from Burroughs Mountain

"Little Tahoma from Burroughs Mountain," 6 x 10 In, Oil, 2020

This is another view Burroughs Mountain, a beautiful hike from Sunrise.

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Mt. Rainier from Burroughs Mountain

"Mt. Rainier from Burroughs Mountain", 6 x 10 In, Oil, 2020

Today my daughter is climing the mountain--up the Kautz Glacier route, bivouacking at "Camp Hazard" at about 11,000 feet, a route I climbed 50 years ago. One of these days (I can dream)...after all, basic requirements are ropes, cramp-ons, ice axes, good company, a love of the Mountain, peservence and my old friend the "rest step." This painting is a view of Mt. Rainier from our annual hike from Sunrise up to Burroughs Mountain.

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From Hells Backbone Road

"From Hells Backbone Road, 8 x 10 in, Oil, 2021

This was painted just west of Capitol Reef outside the Airbnb where we were staying in May.

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Teasdale Road

"Teasdale Road", 8 x 10 in, Oil, 2021

This was painted just west of Capitol Reef outside the Airbnb where we were staying in May.

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Cle Elum Meadow

"Cle Elum Meadow", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

This is another painting from the June Plein Air Washington paintout in Cle Elum, Washington.

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Cle Elum Hills

"Cle Elum Hills", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

This was painted in June at the Plein Air Washington paintout in Cle Elum, Washington. Cle Elum is a town just east of Snoqualmie Pass on I-90. I've camped, hiked, climbed and painted in the area since I was a child.

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Wallowa Mountains

"Wallowa Mountains", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2010

This is another work painted years ago in the Wallows of Eastern Oregon--it was probably the first time I travelled there.
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Idaho Spring

"Idaho Spring", 10 x 12 In, Oil, 2018

This was painted on a horseback trip in Hells Canyon on the Snake River. I'd fogotten about this painting. It was obviously fast and loose with the palette knife.

Mt. Shuksan Shadows

"Mt. Shuksan Shadows", 10 x 12 In, Oil, 2014

This was painted from the parking lot at Artist's Point, between Mt. Shuksan and Mt. Baker. It is so easy with a painting like this to look at it back in the studio and see everything that could be "fixed." And it is a mistake to do it--I say that from experience!

"As I said to you before, I cannot interest myself in whether they will pass juries or not. More paintings have been spoiled during the process of their making, through such considerations, than the judgments of juries are worth.

"The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture--however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is a by-product and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has past. The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being..." Robert Henri, "The Art Spirit"

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Tree Along the Snoqualmie

"Tree Along the Snoqualmie", 8 x 10 In, Oil, 2021

I love to paint in Utah because of the colors--golds and reds. Here in Western Washington, it is pretty much all greens. I cherish the greens and the old growth forests and it is distressing, as when we traveled to the Deschutes River last week, to see the hills and acres of clear cuts. I am glad they re-plant, but a tree farm in the forest lands is just not the same.

But in any case, I painted with a group from Plein Air Washington last week in the small town of Snoqualmie along the Snoqualmie River--and it was a mesmerizing mass of greens.

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