10 x 12
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This little painting took way to long.
Life does tend to interfere.

I came across a wonderful website today, www.emptyeasel.com. It is full of information from marketing art online to painting materials.
My studio right now has an empty easel. I was working on a still life with pears and grapes but left for New York before it was finished. The fruit was quite rotten when I returned a week later. Because I like to paint from life, it was necessary to change the fruit and composition. It took much longer than expected but I will post it as soon as it's dry enough to photograph. Here is an older landscape of a view near my home north of San Francisco.

Ring Mountain

10 x 12
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I took a wonderful workshop with Sherrie McGraw in Scottsdale. She is amazing. She broke her wrist and painted with her left hand instead of canceling the class. I would really recommend her to anyone interested in painting the figure or still life.
www.sherriemcgraw.com

Open Studios was very successful. It was wonderful to receive such positive feedback on my new work. I'm surprised at how hard it has been to change from watercolors to oils, I thought it was going to be so easy! Each painting I do is a challenge, but I need to remember how long it took to become proficient in watercolors.

I've been traveling so much, Seattle, North Carolina, next week Tahoe and then New York, so I haven't been in my studio for quite a while. Painting is such a wonderful obsession, it's very hard to be away from it for any length of time. I hope to get back to it soon.

Bartlett Buddies

16 x 8
Finally finished in time for Open Studios
this weekend.

Early Spring

7 x 16
I've always loved Japanese magnolias,
but they don't live very long after cutting.
I was trying to paint fast but finally had to
use photographs. I much prefer painting
from life, but this seemed to work.
Did it?

Three of a Kind

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