A color study completed early this summer. I took the idea from a stetch of William Pond done this winter. My largest painting to date at 60" by 36".

With limited choices, painting or blogging in my free time, I chose painting this spring. Yolo County, California, Ag and Art program offers painters unique opportunities to paint on farms in Yolo County. This is one landscape I did this spring at Putah Creek Ranch. The day was overcast and windy, but the views were great! Thank you Ag and Art!

I started this one at Bodega Dunes and finished it at home. It was for a friend that had hung my very first painting, which of course wasn't very good. I thought she totally deserved an update!

Steve posed for Christmas at S12 Gallery. I thought he made a perfect Scrooge! Hope all of you had a great holiday season. A late Merry Christmas!

I got to go back to Wisconsin to visit my family. Had a great time. While there, my sister Cheryl and my niece Sarah took some time to paint with me! We went to Willow River State Park and

painted the waterfall. Cheryl and I started on Saturday and got rained on a bit, Sarah joined us on Sunday and we had a rain free day. Northwestern Wisconsin is such a beautiful place. Lots to paint.

This one I did at Salt Point State Park, Stump Beach, along the Sonoma Coast. I got to take my son Zac and his girlfriend with me for a weekend camping trip. We had absolutely great weather. We were lucky enough to camp at Sonoma Dunes the first night, it had hot showers and great campsites. The second night we stayed at Salt Point campgrounds, ocean side. Although they had no showers, the view made up for it. We explored beaches up and down the coast. Great Fun!

Here are the other sides of the newsbox. I wonder if it will ever see daylight. I brought it back to Sacramento News and Review and haven't heard anything. Oh well,

it was a lot of fun to do. Who knows, someday someone may see it somewhere in Sacramento! There's always hope!

I have a new project I'm working on. A news box for Sacramento News and Review! This is side one and side 2. I still have 2 sides to go. Bear is one of my characters as you can see in a previous post, he is currently traveling around in a geometric world.

This one was done in late July. It is a little farm in Yolo County right outside of Davis. They have peaches, and an assortment of berries that you can pick yourself! So I did this and then went to work picking raspberries! They made it home and a few even made it into a raspberry torte.

I did this small 11x14 painting this last Saturday. It was a really lovely farm in Yolo County, the Wasserman Farm. YoloArts has a wonderful Art & Ag Program where they find a farm to host painters once a month and you get to go out and make art! It's a great way to spend the morning.

Well, there seems to be a constant conflict between painting and posting. Painting has definitely won out. I have some not very good pictures of two of the paintings that I have done in the last few months. Hopefully this weekend I can round up a few more and take better shots of those.

We did a spring plein air display at S12 Gallery in Sacramento, these are two paintings that I entered there. Maybe I can post better shots of them later.

Here are some interesting takes of me painting in old Sacramento. This painting is currently in the S12 Gallery in Sacramento. Gary Zietlow, a wonderful photographer from the Los Angeles Area took them and kindly sent them to me.

I truly have been painting, just not posting. This is one I completed in March at William Pond along the American River. Spring was just beginning to emerge. The painting is a 16x20 and took me two sessions along the river to complete. It will be in the S12 gallery in Sacramento for the May 8, 2010 Second Saturday.

Stinson Beach... hairpin turns, straight down hundreds of feet, and me, I let me teen drive it!
This one is a 30 by 40 and more knife than brush. I think I decided that I like doing larger canvases. I wonder how big I can do in Plein Aire. Only one way to find out! Soon as it decides to quit raining here and dry up even a little bit, I'm going outside to find out!

What I did on my Christmas vacation. This one is larger 22x28. What a kick! I really enjoyed doing it. I was originally thinking that it would be for a small child's bedroom, however my LARGE teen decided that he really liked it, so there it went.