Field and Sky Idaho

"Field and Sky Idaho", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

This is a painting along the highway in Idaho.

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Backyard Trees

"Backyard Trees", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
I painted this during full summer, when the Northwest is the greenest place I know. These apple trees have been here for over 35 years! We lost one last winter--it got too wet and the tree just keeled over. Behind the apple trees are the cedars and the fir on the bank above the Cove. They are significantly taller and when the wind blows, I just have to trust the tree gods.


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Freighter Port Angeles

"Freighter Port Angeles", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
The view is from a bluff overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca, just east of Port Angeles. In the distance is Vancouver Island.

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Mt. Baker Sunrise

"Mt. Baker Sunrise", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

This view of Mt. Baker is from a high bank over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, looking east to Mt. Baker and the sunrise.

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Big Sky Utah

"Big Sky Utah", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

Land, distance, sky.

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Nisqually Barns

"Nisqually Barns", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
The Nisqually barns are a memorable aspect of the Nisqually landscape. They are the remnants of the Brown dairy farm from 1904. Now it is one of the most popular spots for people to take a walk along the Sound in the Olympia area.

Autumn Mist Artist Point

"Autumn Mist Artist Point", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

I painted four paintings that day at Artist Point between Mt. Baker and Mt. Shuksan. The location
of this one was a short distance down the road by a small lake, looking off to the west into the
mist. The most striking thing was that in spite of the mist and the rain, the color of the alpine
meadows, turning before winter, was so intense and vivid.

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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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Edith Cavell, Sketch

"Edith Cavell, Sketch", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

At the end of our second painting day in Jasper, at the foot of Mt. Edith Cavell, I was tired! I had done one painting facing the mountain and one facing the other direction. But I wanted to do one more! This very fast sketch of Mount Edith Cavell was the result: one of those impetuous and "pray the devil-may-care painting gods will be with me!" And after 20 minutes or so, I just said, "put it in the box and for heaven's sake, don't look at it!" But when I do look at it now, this magnificent mountain and the story of Edith Cavell come back to me.

Wikipedia: Mount Edith Cavell

Ucluelet Harbor

"Ucluelet Harbor, Oil on Museum Board, 10 x 10 In
Our painting trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island in August was filled with sun, and of course, rain, for who could live in the Northwest and not be prepared for it! I had my little painting umbrella, which didn't help much, but we found a spot sheltered at least from the wind down below some warehouses on the harbor. This was the result of my soggy experience.

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Red Flowers in Vase - SOLD

"Red Flowers in Vase", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is the last of the flowers paintings done before my trip to Canyon de Chelly. I will do more of these--something about doing them so appeals to me.

Orange Poppies

"Orange Poppies", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
I love this cloth this background cloth that is black with blue flowers. Its a perfect background for yellow and orange.

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Flowers in Orange Vase - SOLD

"Flowers in Orange Vase", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Canvas
This painting is a little more abstract than usual. More abstract is a good direction to go in, but it will take a little thought and then a mental plunge--something I will be thinking about in the next couple of months.

Patterson Lake

"Patterson Lake", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Canvas
The weather in Winthrop alternated between sun and rain, but fortunately, the stormy clouds were passing, so most of the time we could just wait 10 or 15 minutes to let the cloud burst pass.

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Roses in Yellow Pot - SOLD

"Roses in Yellow Pot", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Panel
I know a lot of these last few paintings are similar, but when I'm studying something, that's what happens.

SOLD

Three Apples

"Three Apples", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
It is interesting to me that at the end of a painting like this, my palette itself is far more organized by color and variation of color than it is when using a brush. Its so easy to smush paint with a brush whereas with the knife, I have to really focus on the value and temperature of the paint.

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Mug with Oranges

"Mug with Oranges", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
I'm still experimenting with the palette knife, especially when I have a hard time focusing on the painting. The palette knife definitely focuses the mind.

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Blue Dish with Apples

"Blue Dish with Apples", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another painting done with more or less free brushstrokes. I have remembered for many years Henrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History from my college days. It is an analytical study that I mainly remember being about the difference between the linear and painterly styles of painting--the difference between Durer and Rembrandt, for example. I recently got a copy to read again--and found it to be much more comprehensive and dense than I had remembered! But the impact that it had on my thinking as a 20 year old has stayed with me for my whole life.

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Enamel Pot

"Enamel Pot", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
Sometimes I like to paint by loading the brush and just swishing it around the canvas--sort of like finger painting with a brush. It is therapeutic.

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Yellow Teapot - SOLD

"Yellow Teapot", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This little teapot was another item I got the other day at the antique co-op. Other than mugs, a lot of the still life items I have are pretty colorless, and I like to paint items with intense color. But I really struggled to find color harmony with this painting.