New Mexico Cloudy Day

"New Mexico Cloudy Day", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is a painting from a couple of months ago. I have many paintings from a couple of months ago but I haven't posted many being busy with so many other things. I have a system of keeping track of the paintings which includes putting a date on the back (which is something so easy to forget) and photographing them. I also enter them in a database and a spreadsheet and track the date I blog or post on FB. I'm curious how other artists keep track of their paintings!

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Last Light Fremont River

"Last Light Fremont River"
I am still experimenting with palette knife, partly because it is the direction my muse is taking me and partly because it would be so much easier to travel without mineral spirits. There is a different mentality to it--one that is more abstract.

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Baja Elias Calles

"Baja Elias Calles", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This was the first painting I did on that sunny day in February on the coast of Baja near Todos Santos. The Pacific was a glorious blue.

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Baja Coast Rocks

"Baja Coast Rocks", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Musuem Board
This is another of the palette knife paintings I did when visiting Jolyn in Baja. We stood out on the cliffs above the Pacific with the waves crashing on the rocks.

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Autumn Woods Idaho - SOLD

"Autumn Woods Idaho", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

This is another painting with my experimental palette knife work. There is something about the palette knife that takes me out of my ordinary thinking habits, not to speak of the physical ones. I'm curious how others work with the palette knife. Sometimes I take the painting off the easel and turn it around from top to bottom and side to side just to get the paint on where I want it. When its on the easel, I seem to frequently get in the way.

Idaho Farmland

"Idaho Farmland", 6 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

I've been doing studies recently, in the smaller size range, vacillating between painting knife and brush and in the process at times becoming disoriented as to my method. But that has to be all to the good, right? This one had just a few brushstrokes with a simple composition.

Sierra Madre Winter - NFS

"Sierra Madre Winter", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
I painted this on my trip to Pescadero at the tip of Baja in January, 2018. It was an attempt to capture the atmosphere and color of the Sierra Madre and the desert in winter. I have been experimenting with painting knife, but with this painting I went back to the brush. I know there are areas in the Southwest, mountains and desert, that are equally beautiful. There is a special feeling about each place and a painting helps me to remember the magic of a place--in this case, Baja.

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River Crossing San Jacinto

"River Crossing San Jacino", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
When I was in Baja with Jolyn, we drove up into the Sierra Madre on a windy dirt road. Surprisingly there was a river crossing at San Jacinto that we decided we'd best not attempt. So we painted the river and the view of the mountains. Our companions were a mama pig and her two piglets who were very interested in what we had with us! This painting was another experiment for me with water soluble paints and painting knife application.

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