PETALUMA GRANARY BUILDING

I found a bit of shade on this hot sunny morning to stand in while painting this view of the Granary building. The little umbrellas are sheltering the other students who were painting along the river.

9" X 12"
Oil on board

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CHINA BEACH- CUPCAKE ISLAND

I painted this little study while standing out on the long dock at China Beach in Marin on a very windy morning. I like to call this little island 'Cupcake Island' rather than the name its known by- 'Rat Island'. Not sure why- it looked like a cupcake to me. I was trying to get the sense of distance and light. I'm pleased with this little study.

Oil on board
6"X 8"
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CHINA BEACH

The view is of the cove and distant land formations at  China Beach in Marin on a June afternoon.  I was working on getting the layers of atmospheric distance and making an interesting composition.

6" X 8"

Oil on panel

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PETALUMA WATER SHED

I was really interested in painting the gathering clouds on the horizon at the water shed area. The distant trees look a bit like distant buildings. This was a one session painting.

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

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FIGURE 59
Life Model in Costume

I used a palette knife to paint this costumed model. It's difficult to get the detail with knives, but the color layers on more opaquely and so is much more vivid.

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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PETALUMA FIELD BY THE RIVER

I painted this back in March during Camille Przewodek's Monday class. It was an overcast day which made the sky-ground relationship closer in value (value=grey scale) and the colors of the field were more saturated than they would look on a sunny day. I'm studying the effects of light and atmosphere on color and trying to get these effects in my studies. I really enjoy challenging myself.

Oil on canvas board
9" X 12"

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FIGURE 58
Life Model Reclining

I think the soft colors of this painting express the gentle quality of this model.  I tried to get the sense of how she was nestled into the pillows, how they supported her weight.

My blog feed to my google group list was broken for a month, so if you wish to see any posts you may have missed you can look at them directly on the blog. Thanks for looking!

http://daily-painting-practice.blogspot.com

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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FIGURE 57

Life model in a bra and argyle socks. I had some struggles to get the drawing correct in the beginning. The perspective is looking up from below, which means the head needs to be smaller and the feet larger than they would appear straight on. I am still working at getting more and better color into my paintings, so that becomes a challenge when a lot of time is spent correcting the initial drawing. I'm happy with the results, although I think less (detail) would have been more with her face.

Oil on panel
11"X14"
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HIGHWAY OVERPASS

I tried the another painting in the same location- this time working faster and simplifying. It looks a little Theibaudish to me now.

Oil on canvas panel

9" X 12"

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MARSH & OVERPASS

This was a study of the 101 overpass by a marshy area in Sonoma County. Colors as they appear in the particular space and light of this time & place were the subject of this study.


Oil on canvas board
9" X 12"

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FIGURE 56


She posed like a sculpture which made for an unusual composition. I was working on seeing and painting the form as color shifts.


Oil on canvas board


11" X 14"

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FIGURE 55

Colorful and dramatic, this model made me think of the absinthe drinkers of the impressionist period.


Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"


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OLD BRICK BUILDINGS


These  industrial  buildings in Petaluma were glowing orange-gold in the distance behind a pink grass field in the morning sunlight.

9" X 12"
oil on canvas board

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RUSTY BOAT

I was thinking about some prints I had seen by Hiroshige when I painted this study of a rusty boat by the Petaluma River. His compositions would often use a foreground element to frame the background, or lead you into the distance. 

Oil on canvas board
9" X 12"

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Figure 54

She is curled up on a quilt with a Chinese symbol applique. I think the symbol is 'double happiness'- not sure.  I tried to portray her golden skin tones in the studio lighting- which had both hot and cool toned light sources.

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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BUILDINGS BY THE RIVER

A quick color study of industrial buildings by the Petaluma River on an overcast morning.


oil on canvas panel

9" X 12"

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Petaluma River & Bridge

I was trying to loosen up and paint the colors of the river, trees, bridge and distant road with a palette knife. I can't get as caught up in details with a palette knife. This was a quick study.

oil on canvas panel

9" X 12"

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FIGURE 52

I recently finished making adjustments and repainting areas of this painting.  This artist's model had a very pure and fresh quality.

11" X 14"
oil on canvas board

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SUNNY DAY ESTUARY

I was trying to get the light key, as well as thinking about the tree shapes in a  Lundy Siegrist painting I had seen at Epperson gallery the weekend before. I don't usually use such a riot of colors- taking some risks with the palette knife.

Oil on canvas board
9" X 12"

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LIMANTOUR ESTUARY
Limantour beach is a hidden gem in Marin County. This estuary view is just outside the beach area, looking south.
I want to share a link to a San Francisco org that gives 100% of donated funds directly to citizen relief efforts in No. Japan~  http://www.jcccnc.org/giving/index.htm
Oil on canvas board
10" X 20"
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ALIA AND THE BUTTERFLY

My adorable grandniece about a year ago. This is soon to go in the mail to her mom and dad in Atlanta!

Oil on canvas

20" X 24"

FIGURE 51

Stephanie is a favorite Bay Area model. There was  a gallery show of art-works  just of her a few years ago.  Artist-models are more than just subjects, they each bring something personal and special to the exchange. Besides their physicality, their inner qualities get transmitted to the artists and hopefully show in the work.

Oil on canvas board
11" X 14"
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TOMALES BAY

An early morning view looking out over Tomales Bay. Peace and serenity and great oysters!

Oil on canvas board
10" X 20"

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GREY DAY WINDOW VIEW

I look at this house across the street from my kitchen window many times a day. I love studying the effects of weather on this familiar view. I plan to do more of these in different seasons and times of day, reminiscent of Monet's haystack series.


Oil on canvas board
10" X 10"

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PACHECO POND

 

This is a protected natural place near Novato in Marin. The grasses were wonderful colors in late fall.

 

 Oil on canvas board

 

9" X 12"

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GUALALA OVERLOOK

 

I painted this on a September afternoon from a bluff overlooking the Gualala river where it joins the Pacific.

I hope to return to paint this majestic place again.

 

9" X 12"

 

Oil on hardboard

 

 

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BABA & MASTAN

Meher Baba with his dog, Mastan from an old black & white photo. I invented the background trees and foliage color. This was done a few years ago, but I thought I would post it in honor of Baba's birthday- Feb. 25, 1894.

Gouache on paper matted and framed.

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SEA RANCH CLIFFS

Overlooking the rocky Northern California coast on a summer afternoon. I'm way behind in posting paintings. This was my observation of the color of the light as the sun lowered on the horizon.

Oil on panel

9" X 12"

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FIGURE 50

A recent figure study painted with the intention to bring more color consciousness to the composition. 

Oil on canvas panel

14" X 18"

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ELLIS PARK GREY DAY

This was mostly done with a palette knife on an overcast morning. The sun was beginning to break, and so it had to be a quick study.

Oil on hardboard

6" X 8"

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SOUTHERN OREGON COAST

This was the view from the balcony of Best Western.
At sunset's last light there was such a riot of blue shadows and hot orange-pink highlights. I would have liked another go at this one.

oil on canvas board

 9" X 12"

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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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