TOWERING SKY

Sweet dreams Carole.

LAST LAR

One of our favorite models is moving away.

Good luck Lar.

RHODODENDRON

The largest of my works currently showing at Danielle's.

"Come on baby light my fire."

GUESS WHO

INTO THE LIGHT

Another painting in my show at Danielle's.

CAMELLIA WITH LEMONS

Showing at Danielle's on Fair Oaks @ Watt in Sacramento through Dec. 18TH.

LEMON BOWL

This is another painting that I will show starting on Nov 19TH at Danielle's Creperie and Gallery

3535 Fairoaks Blvd. @ Watt Ave

IT'S MY KITCHEN

THREE PERSIMMONS

This is one of the paintings I will be showing

at Daniels in Sacramento this December

Love to Carole.

JILL AGAIN

DEANNA AGAIN

HYDRANGEA FOR CAROLE

NOEL

I'm pleased.

JODY AGAIN

The first couple of hours of today's painting session was a wipe-out.

This is a sketch of Jody completed in the last twenty minutes.

JODY

I had a great time painting with my friends today.

Congratulations Mikey.

Go Giants!

DEANNA

Deanna is our beautiful new model.

KEVIN

I'm back!

Everything went well and I'm feeling fine.

JILL

I wiped out my first couple of attempts at this portrait
 but painted something I like in the last hour.

RECLINING NUDE 3

NATHALIE

I was inspired by beautiful Nathalie.

MOUNTAIN COOL

Today was the first day of the Fongwei Liu landscape workshop.

RED

I had fun.

WATERMELON

This was a wonderful day of painting thanks to my buds Jonda and Paige.

JODIE

Thanks Jodie

RECLINING NUDE 2

This three hour study may have some drawing issues, but I'm happy 

with it's energy.

I CAN SMELL RAIN

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This is a Plein Air painting I did a couple of years ago.

Congratulations to Patris who opened her new studio and gallery in Oak Park last Sunday

to rave reviews.

QUIANA

Thanks to our beautiful model Quiana for pulling through for us on one of the

hottest days of the year.

ERIC

Eric is one of the Bell Brothers, a very talented band from the Sacramento

area.  I think I did well, partly because he has so much  character in his face.

Thanks to Janda

QUENTIN

I'm pleased with some of what I did in our Thursday 3 hour session.

PRINCESS

On Thursday our three hour challenge was to paint 

the beautiful model in a full Native American headdress. 

ME

Today, in the mail, I received my new drivers license

 with an updated photo. 

Despite the beautiful backdrop, the flattering lighting

and the state of the art production values of my new drivers 

license photo, I prefer this sketch from my friend Mikie.
http://mikolon.blogspot.com/

Happy belated Birthday to my lovely Claudia.

JASAMIN

Thanks Jasamin for coming through at the last minute 

and modeling for us.

I love you Carole.

SRI

Our beautiful Sri was the model today for the Thursday

figure painting session.

My thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to a couple of

 very special friends.

SIMONE

Today was the first of a three day workshop taught

by Don Sahly. The day began with great a two hour demo.

The class was full so I chose to paint our beautiful

model Simone.

my love to Carole

NUDE

I am trying hard to simplify my brushwork, keep my
values close and lose some edges.

Feel better Carol.

LANDING 101 - sold

I inherited a collection on comics from the 1930's and 40's. 

This is one of the things I did with them.

Missing my best friend.

PROFILE

It took me six tries and over half of our figure painting session to come up with 

an acceptable drawing of our model.  My first pass with color also had to be wiped 

along with the drawing.  With thirty minutes left in our session  I relaxed and

had fun doing this profile.

Thank you Carole.

RECLINING NUDE

I learned a lot today in our regular Tuesday figure painting session.

Thanks to Stacey and to all of my "peeps" who follow this blog.

All my love to Carole.

SIDNEY

Last week I spent most of my days painting en plein air in Winters

California.  Eight to twelve hour days working on location are hard on my 

'delicate sensibilities'.  The exhaustion caused by sun exposure and hiking down 

hill to creek side caused me to "fall off my horse" and question my ability to paint 

anything worth looking at.

Today, thanks to a couple of days rest and our lovely model Sidney,

"I'm back in the saddle again".

 

PUTAH CREEK

This is the second painting I did for the Winters Plein Air Competition.

 The opening is at 6pm tomorrow, Friday May 11, at the Briggs gallery in

Winters, California

END

This week many of my friends and I are taking part in the Winters

California Plein Air competition.  This is the first of three paintings I 

will be hanging in the the show beginning this Friday.

available

Jasmine

Our model today was Jasmine, a bright, clever funny poet.

Here is my oil sketch after the first twenty minutes.

Jasmine fin.

Japanese Kimono

I am especially pleased with the economy

of brushwork on this piece.  I wish I could do it 

every time.

Larry

Larry is a Sacramento musician and one of our favorite

 character models.  This Tuesday he threw his head back,

 put a big grin on his face and posed with his guitar.  My friends 

Janda and Paige, among others, beautifully captured in their paintings, the joy 

"Lar" must feel when he plays.  I didn't paint Tuesday but offer this 

portrait I did of him from a couple of months ago.

Recline

Today we had a beautiful reclining model in our regular Thursday

 figure painting session..

Above Sutro Baths---Sold

This is a plein air painting I did a few years ago.  It was very cold

and windy.  I had a great day.

The Rose

I was a "task master" today in my Wednesday drawing class.

I had my students concentrate on doing a value study of a rose.

After some grumbling they all came through with GREAT drawings.

This is one of the few watercolors I have done that I like.

Blue Cap

This is one of my favorite "Less is more" paintings from

our Thursday sessions.