2017 Adventures in Fine Art

Snowbound in the studio for a week it was a great time to rework a painting from 2014 that never felt real. I was trying too hard to stylize my brushwork and it ended up looking cartoony. Now that I have resurrected the painting I enjoy looking at it.

North end of Agate Beach 18" x 24" oil on canvas

This one started as a plein air study this summer but the bottom rose was just a red smear. I gave it some definition without over painting the piece.

Roseys 10" x 8" study oil on board

Finding images to paint from my travels. This one is from 1998 in Italy.

Verona Stairs 14" x 11" oil on board

This is where Margaret & I spent our honeymoon:

Krista's Hacienda 20" x 16" oil on wood panel

Depoe Bay 12" x 24" oil on wood panel

 

Maddox 10" x 16" oil on board 

Painting with a group of plein air artists on Sauvie Island for a Memorial Day paint-out.  I really like painting with other artists like this.

Sauvie Oak 12" x 16" oil on board 

Clackamette Green 9" x 12" oil on board

Clackamette Trunks 11" x 14" oil on board

Meldrum Bank 14" x 11" oil on board

Garden Pots 11" x 14" oil on board

Ona Leaner 11" x 14" oil on canvasboard.

Incidental Portraits

I have done several portraits in the last year or so that capture candid moments.

Surf (Zack and his children) 8" x 10" oil on cradled panel

Jane and her Granddaughter 12" x 9" oil on board

Jane & other Granddaughter 12" x 9" oil on muslin board.

Patrick 14" x 11" oil on board

M&M's wedding in France 10' x 8" oil on board

Walking Aspen 12" x 16" oil on wood panel

Reiki Day - Travis & Jeff 10" x 8' oil ob board

Suyana 4" x 4" oil on board
Christmas portrait

Mimi 7" x 5" oil on board
Christmas portrait.

My earlier more traditional portraits:

Marg Bandana 12" x 9" oil on board

Shay 11" x 8.5" oil on board

Aria 11" x 8.5" oil on board

Li'l Will 11" x 8.5" oil on board

Stella 12" x 9" oil on board

This is what started it all in 2013

Classic Cars series

I just started a new series of small, unframed 1.5" thick canvases and panels to show at a gallery in Las Vegas

Fin - 8" x 8" oil on canvas

Corvette - 8" x 10" oil on panel
(collection of A.D. Cook)

56 T-Bird - 8" x 10" oil on panel

Caught in the act.

57 BelAir 8" x8" oil on canvas

67 Plymouth Baracuda in the rain 9" x 12" oil on panel

prepping panels 

'70 Mustang 8" x 10" oil on panel

 

'29  Cord Phaeton 6" x 12" oil on panel

47 Merc convertible 8" x 10" oil on panel

Emek's Volvo 8" x 10" oil on panel

(collection of Emek)

T-Bird 8" x8" oil on panel

 

51 Hudson Hornet 6" x 12" oil on panel 

46 Chevie pickup 9" x 12" oil on panel

63 Stingray - 8" x10" oil on panel

(collection of A.D. Cook)

Whole set of 13 paintings before delivery. 

Olds Woody - 14" x 18" oil on canvas

 Repurposed Packard 11" x 14" oil on board

Lake Oswego Plein Air

I had so much fun painting in Lake Oswego this week. I need to get into more local plein air events.

Zeppo's Side View 11" x 14" oil on board

Orchard 12" x 16" oil on panel

 Rogers House 11" x 14" oil on canvas

        

Rogers Inlet 16" x 12" oil on panel

September 2016

Studio painting I've been thinking about for a long time.

 

Laguna De Santa Rosa 2 - 18" x 24" oil on board - Private collection.

 

August 2016

A couple of weeks in the Newport area. I was thrilled to be out painting a painting a day for six of those days.

Newport Fishers 12' x 9" oil on board

Ona Beach 14" x 11" oil on board

Ona Fog 10" x 12" oil on board

Robert's Throne 12" x 16" oil on board

Seal Rock back 12" x 9"oil on board

Dune Winds 12" x 16" oil on board

Back home again

 

Willamette Falls 16" x 20" oil on canvas 

My son Mike asked me to do a painting of a friend of his. I believe I got the likeness pretty well but slightly at the cost of getting a little tight.

Patrick 14" x 11" oil on canvas