FIGURE 49

This is a model I have drawn and painted from life many times. I think this captured her distinctive personality better than most of my previous  paintings of her.


Oil on canvas board

14" X 18"



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YACHATS COAST

This was painted along the shore at the Central Oregon coast this summer. It was very overcast and began to drizzle. I guess that kept me from overworking things!

Oil on canvas board


8" X 10"

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FIGURE 48

 

I've been working with a palette knife more and you can get a lot more paint and color on the canvas, but its hard to control. So, I was fooling with both the knife and the brush here. I like the color and pattern in this one.

14" X 18"

 

Oil on canvas board

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PETALUMA RIVER

This was an overcast summer morning looking down over the in-coming currents. It slowly went from mostly muddy to a shallow flow of water. I was looking at aerial perspective and the effects of more or less color saturation and color temperature changes with distance.

8" X 10"

oil on canvas board
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WATERSHED PATH

This was a sunny summer day at Shollenberger park in Petaluma. Learning to mass areas of color together, especially in the background. 

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

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FIGURE 47

One of the models we regularly work with at the weekly Berkeley figure group. Color and design were in the foreground of my thoughts when painting this. I was challenged by the flood of light on her, so it was difficult to see the form in its dimensions. We have a lot of conversation with the models, and I think her expression indicates that.

11" X 14"


Oil on canvas board

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GREY DAY WATERSHED

I painted this on a very overcast June day overlooking the field of grasses at the watershed area in Petaluma. As I painted there I could see more and more color variations, maybe due to less light overall. 

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

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FIGURE 46

She had some attitude and was wearing a 'fascinator'. That's what the head adornment was called in the 1920's, and they seem to be back again.

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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HOUSE IN LIGHT

I've been painting, but have lapsed in my posts..
This is was done in Petaluma during my studies with Camille Prezwodek. This house was actually blue, but what I'm learning is to see and paint the color of light and the light key, not the actual local color (the color of the object). Its hard to learn, but well worth it.
Oil on canvas board
9" X 12"
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FIGURE 45

I was trying to get a likeness of the model, her coloring, youthful
glow and kind of a buoyant personality.


11" X 14"


Oil on canvas board

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PETALUMA PASTURE

This view of a distant house in Petaluma on a grey day was my first landscape in my study with Camille Prezwodek. I will try to post a lot of the paintings as I take this journey in learning from a master colorist how to paint light and form with color. At first it felt like learning Algebra or maybe Chinese, but gradually I'm learning how to see the color, beyond the local color. Its challenging, but so exciting and rewarding. Everything I never learned in art school!
9" X 12"
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'AGUA FRIA REFLECTIONS'

The early morning sky just after sunrise, reflected pink light in the Agua Fria creek.


oil on panel

8" X 10"

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RUSHING AGUA FRIA

This was painted after the spring rains in the Sierra foothills. The water was rushing over the slate- colored rocks in mini-waterfalls. I tried to get the quality of the light and energy while wondering if any wild cats or bears might be watching!

Oil on board

8 X 10"

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RIDGE VIEW

This was a distant view in the Sierra foothills on a Spring afternoon.  I was thinking about the contrast of soft rolling hills and floating cloud with the sharp value changes of the craggy rock ridge-line. I used various shades of conte chalks from black to white on a grey primed heavy weight paper.

Conte pastel on paper

9" X 12"

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RED BUD TREE ON A GREY DAY

This is the same view of the red bud tree on a ridge overlooking the Sierra foot hills... painted on a very overcast day. I held my palette knife up to the view of sky, tree and land to really try to get the colors to approximate what I saw.

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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 RED BUD TREE

I painted this blooming red bud tree on a fully sunlit spring afternoon on a ridge in the Sierra foothills. The orange patch on the distant hill is a field of California poppies. I was trying to match the colors as they appeared to me. 

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

 

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FIGURE 44

A small painting done in one session with model, Merav. Sometimes fast is best!

5" X 7"

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BLOCK STUDY

This seems simple, but was tricky.  I chose to make the bright blue table cloth increase in saturation in the distance, which is not usually done. Usually with distance, chroma goes down, but I had to work with that bright red block on top and so it needed to match the intensity. I guess you had to be there. Block studies are great for clarifying painting issues and anyway I like the struggle.

Oil on hardboard panel

5" X 7"

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PORTRAIT OF JUDITH

Since taking Al Tofanelli's portrait class at l'Atelier aux Couleurs in Petaluma, I have been painting some portraits of the models at my Wednesday night group. I hope I got a likeness of beautiful Judith.

11" X 14"

Oil on canvas board

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FIGURE STUDY 43

This was a quick color study of a life-model, Dave, who had a great collection of hats.

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

PORTRAIT OF JUSTIN

A Study in Grey

Oil on Canvas Board

12" X 16"

I was working on seeing the values and painting edges better in this study from life. I just loved his hair, so much a part of his whole persona.

FIGURE 42

This was a study in grey tones from my weekly figure group. It was interesting for me to translate her fair skin and red hair into value tones.

Oil on board

5" X 7"

FIGURE 41, NUDE STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

MAN IN HAT

A study in black and white

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

 QUICK HEAD STUDY IN GREY TONES

Another fast one

8" X 10"

Oil on paper 

SECOND QUICK STUDY

Oil on Paper

8" X 10"

QUICK HEAD STUDY 1

I saved some recent 15 minute quick sketches. I like this one.

Oil on grey paper

8" X 10"

FIGURE 40

Working in greys to challenge myself to try to portray the light on skin and paint a black hat in light and shadow without color. This was done in one session- so working quickly. I was learning  to start with an overall light tone and an overall dark tone, in the medium range. Then there is room to push the darkest darks and lightest lights, while keeping the overall dark-light pattern distinct. If that makes sense!

5" X 7 "

Oil on board

QUICK HEAD STUDY    

This is more tonal quick study work. The idea is to do 'lots of starts' and cover many square miles of canvas in order to make progress. This was a 15 minute study and while a little rough, I like it.

Oil on board    

                                                                                  

8" X 10"

TONAL PORTRAIT STUDY

The next several postings I make will be of the tonal studies that I painted while taking Alfredo Tofanelli's class. In this study was trying to find the darkest darks and lightest lights, the movement of light. The lightest light was on her earlobe, but I had to tone it down for the sake of the painting looking 'right'. This is always an issue in painting- whether to be true to what you see, or true to the correctness of the way the painting reads.

Oil on board

9" X 12"

'FIGURE 39'

It was an interesting coincidence that we set this up with drapes as prop- and the model, who is also an actress, looks like she is posed on stage. Its rare to find a figure model who is willing to stand in a pose for 2 hours. Bravo!

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

'FIGURE 38'  

I was working on the gesture and flow of the model seated with draperies and pillows surrounding her. 

Oil on canvas

11" X 14"

BOXER AT REST

This was painted from a live model. He brought the 'props' for the part of a boxer. His muscularity and warm skin tones were a pleasure to paint. He told us that his ancestry is African and Native American.

Oil on board

11" X 14"

'YELLOW PEAR'                                                                                       

The pear and its reflection on the kitchen counter  caught my eye and so I spent the  morning with my paints and tried to re-create the sense of color and light.

5" X 7"

Oil on board

'MEHER'

Meher Baba 

The word Meher means compassion. This painting was created for a fundraiser to benefit a rural free clinic in a remote area of India. The clinic was established by Dr. Goher, a close disciple of Meher Baba. She devoted her life to Meher Baba both as his personal physician and through her work attending to the medical needs of the very poor villagers who came to the clinic. Although Dr. Goher has passed on, her clinic continues to serve in the loving way she established it, and relies on donations. Small donations go a very long way.

http://www.meherfund.org

14" X 18"

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"MEHERANA ROAD' Landscape  Cathey's Valley, California

This was painted on location last spring in the late afternoon. When the sun is low the colors on the ridge across the road become a riot of oranges and reds. 

Oil on board, unframed

11" X 14"

'RED HILLS' 
 Carquinez strait landscape

I was experimenting with inventing a composition using thicker paint, lots of color and working some with a palette knife. This was done during a workshop with Jerrold Turner- a wonderful painter and generous teacher.

9 "X 12"

Oil on linen covered hardboard

ROCKS AND OCEAN

The Pacific Coast near Asilomar

I saw this view of the ocean from a sea-weedy bluff just south of Asilomar. The composition looks like a Chinese brush painting... I used to own some and looked at them at lot- so they influenced the way I saw this scene.

9" X 12"

Oil on linen covered board

CLOUDS & WATER

This is the small quick painting I did after 'MAUVE CLOUDS'. The fog was rolling in over the horizon by then.

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

'MAUVE CLOUDS'
Asilomar Seascape

Another painting day at the beach. The fog bank hung over the horizon, making the colors all purply.

9" X 12"

Oil on hardboard

WAVES CRASHING

Seascape at Asilomar beach 

This was the small study I dashed off after OCEAN WAVES. It was one of those overcast summer mornings, so the colors appeared intense without the very deep shadows of a sunny day.  I believe that is because the pupils widen to let in more light when the sky is darker. 

Oil on hardboard    

5" X 7" 

'OCEAN WAVES'
The waves rolling in to the shore at Asilomar, California

I observed the waves rolling in for a long while before beginning to paint. They are moving so fast that you really have to paint from memory when on location at the beach. I like the way the blue-green intensifies in saturation just under the curl of foam. Paintings is always about edges, color, brushstrokes and relationships.

Oil on linen mounted on hardboard

9" X 12"

'PACIFIC GROVE'

I painted this small one quickly after a longer study. Its nice to have all the colors mixed, ready and just get it down. A foreign tourist watched me for a while and then exclaimed, "Isn't it wonderful, you just stand there and paint!!"...  sounds so easy.

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

Model in a Red Dress

This was painted from a live model in two long sessions. We all thought the dress and shoes reflected her bold personality. I was going for a color statement based on the red chemise.

11" X 14"

Oil on Canvas board

RIVER ROCKS II

This was done quickly with the palette paint remaining after a concentrated effort on the first version. I think the expressionistic paint strokes and color came together well in the smaller, faster version. 

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

'RIVER ROCKS MARIPOSA'  

Painting the rock formations along the Agua Fria river, Mariposa, California this spring was an exciting challenge for me.  With the sounds and events of natural life unfolding, I set up my easel and gear in the cold. I set to painting nature's rock sculpture in fast changing light; trying to make water fluid, rocks solid, the land dewy and warming in the early morning.

Oil on Canvas board

9" X 12"

"FIGURE 35" 

Nude with Blues and Greens

Oil painting

11" X 14"

Oil on Canvas

DOOR OF DAWN
The sun rose over the hill and as it broke through the trees it resembled a radiant key-hole.

Oil on hardboard
5" X 7"

AGUA FRIA AT DAWN

I rose at the barest hint of daylight to set up for painting en plein air by the Agua Fria. The California wildflowers were profuse in April- varieties that grow in the higher elevation of the Sierra foothills were not familiar to me. The sun rose just behind the hill and lit up the cold blue rocks and water with warm light. I was working with a value filter.. basically a small sheet of red film in a mat. Looking through this filter helped me to see the patterns of light and dark as abstract shapes first. Some painters teach that the values of these areas should remain clearly delineated.

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

ROCKY

I dashed off this little painting after laboring long on another rock painting by a creek in the Sierra foothills near Yosemite valley. This little guy popped up on the rock and posed for awhile. 


Oil on hardwood
6" X 6"