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Cocoa: A Dog Portrait
Cocoa: Dog Portrait, oil on panel, 8×8″ When I was given the photo of Cocoa to paint from, I pointed out that her face was covered with mud or sand. I was asked if I could paint her without the dirt. I...
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Sunflowers: Studies, Struggles, Stubborness
Sunflowers #4, oil painting on panel, 8×8″ It seems like I’ve been struggling with painting sunflowers forever but with each attempt I understand them a little better. I’m very stubborn and will...
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Two Very Different Portraits of Very Different Women
Portrait of Cyndy, oil on panel, 8×10″ I painted this oil painting from a 2nd generation scan of a difficult photo. The harsh shadows, eyes hidden behind sunglasses, and brilliant fall foliage in the...
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Virtual Paintout: Lithuania
Virtual Paintout: Lithuania. Oil on panel, 8×10″ Doing a Virtual Paintout seemed like a good warm up for the plein air painting season. March’s Virtual Paintout location is Vilnius, Lithuania. It was...
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Flowering Crab Apple Blossoms in Bottles: Oil Paintings
Crab Apple Paired, Oil on Archival Panel, 10×8″ The branches I snipped from a tree in Berkeley provided many opportunities to sketch and paint. The first were watercolor sketches. Then I did these two...
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Sam: A Border Collie Dog Portrait in Oils
Sam, A Dog Portrait in Oils, Oil on Panel, 8×8″ I wish I had a dog but since I don’t, at least I can paint them! This dog portrait in oil was commissioned by a woman as a gift to her father-in-law of...
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Sunflowers on Blue
Sunflowers on Blue, oil on linen panel, 10×8″ (UPDATED with better photo!). It’s summer so it’s sunflower time again. This is yet another attempt (but not the last) at understanding these flowers. I...
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Sunflowers on Blue (Updated) and New York City Trip
Sunflowers on Blue, oil on linen panel, 10×8″ (UPDATED with better photo and New York news!). It’s summer so it’s sunflower time again. This is yet another attempt (but not the last) at understanding...
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Loads ‘o Lillies and Winsor Newton Cotman watercolor review
“Lily White on White,” oil on Gessobord panel, 8×8″(AVAILABLE on DailyPaintworks Auction: CLICK IMAGE to visit auction) I spent some time sketching and painting a calla lily that sprouted in my garden...
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Invite and Sneak Peak of Art Show Reception Friday August 9
My wall in the group show at the Collector Here is a peek at my wall in the Collector Gallery in Berkeley’s Elmwood district showing 12 oil paintings. I have more small paintings displayed off the wall...
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End of Journal Self Portraits
Self Portrait, Oil on panel, 6×6″ I wasn’t satisfied with the two ink and watercolor end-of-journal self-portraits (below) that completed the 8×10″ Moleskine I was working in back in June. Rose...
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Sunny Landscapes, Summer, Spring, and Smelly
Briones Park, Sunny Afternoon, oil on panel, 10×8″ Briones Park Sunny Afternoon available for purchase here I didn’t realize until I saw these two pictures together, that it was easy to tell that I...
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My Art in a Book, a Field Guide and a New Commission
I am happy to say that the excellent new book Urban Sketching: The Complete Guide to Techniques by Thomas Thorspecken, includes this “Urban Animals” page (above) featuring my sketches of cats. When...
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Found or Free: Apples and Candlestick
Found on the Street #1, Candlestick and Apples, oil painting on panel, 8×8″ (Click image to enlarge) This is one in a series of paintings of free stuff and things found on the street during my walks in...
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Shower Flowers
Dahlias: Shower Flowers, oil on panel, 10×8 in (Click image to enlarge) I brought these amazing dahlias home from my daughter-in-law’s baby shower and had fun painting them. (The painting is available...
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Playing Dirty Ball!
Dirty Balls, oil on Gessobord, 8×8 in I had so much fun painting these dirty old baseballs my dog found at the dog park next to the batting cage at Albany High School. It felt like fun and play, not...
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Two Sunflower Survivors with Process Chart
Two Survivors, oil painting on linen panel, 7×5 in Persistence, patience, perseverance, determination, curiosity, courage, confidence, wonder…these are all qualities needed to become a better painter....
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Sunflowers in Old Crock
Sunflowers in Found Crock, oil on linen panel, 8×8 in. Click image to enlarge. I found this wonderful old crock set out on the curb, adorned with a “Free” sign so I carried it home for my “Found Stuff”...
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Pumpkin and Gourd on Black Glass
Pumpkin and Gourd on Glass, oil on linen panel, 10×10 inches What an interesting painting challenge this was: strong warm light on a white gourd and a small pumpkin, with reflections and shadows on a...
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Persimmon and Green Beans Still Life and Steps
Persimmon and String Beans, oil on panel, 6×6 inches This was one of the those magical paintings that just worked from beginning to end. Maybe it was painting on Gessobord, which I love, or maybe it...
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