pink water balloon 8x10

Crystal Geyser with Cigar 9x12

Poland Springs with Reece's 9x12

This is another commission.

water with bosc 8x10

avocado with water 8x10

water with tomatoes 8x10

water and eggplant 10x8

I haven't had much time to paint lately. I'm trying to remedy that.

two peaches with water 12x9

It's fun doing these slightly larger still-lifes. I like being able to give them a little more breathing room.

Coon Creek 6x8

The Opening for the Winters Plein Air Festival was this evening. It was great fun. I met a lot of very nice people. Briggs and Co. puts on a fantastic event. I will definitely be doing it again next year.
Coon Creek is on the Seven Pools trail out at Hidden Falls Regional Park in Auburn

shore line 4.5x5

I have been thinking and reading a lot about painting water lately and I wanted to try some things. I decided to approach things a little differently and, instead of going outside to paint today, I copied a painting that I found on Armand Cabrera's excellent blog. I didn't try to reproduce his piece stroke for stroke. I was trying to use color in a similar way to capture the dual transparent and reflective quality of the water. I've been wanting to try this from life for a while but it's a fairly daunting prospect for me and I felt like I would be better prepared for a plein air session if I copied a couple by people who had already mastered the idea. There are some wonderful articles on painting water on James Gurney's blog. If you look closely you can see a bunch of dirt stuck to this painting. I cleverly dropped it face down so it would look more like a plein air piece.

rock study #2 10x8

Some more rocks near the Rainbow Bridge.

rock study 8x6

These rocks are just below the old Rainbow Bridge in Folsom. I've seen them a thousand times. The other day I was returning from painting in a different spot when I saw them with the late afternoon sun hitting them from the side.

paint brush #2 5x7

wave study 6x8

This is the view when looking straight out to sea from Irish Beach. I came pretty close to doing what I set out to do with this simple little painting. My wife likes it too so I'm going to keep it.
NFS

tree #2 6x8

lime water 7x5

Sold

pepper water 5x7

Sold

watermelon #3 6x6

waterslide #3 9x12

Sold

water slide #2 10x8

Last weekend I donated the earlier water slide painting to the KVIE art auction. It's actually a fairly prestigious local juried show. The ladies who were checking the art in seemed to like the painting and they were very nice. I hope I get in. Of course the day after donating the painting I got an email from someone who wanted to buy it so I went ahead and did another. This one is a slightly different view and was painted earlier in the day.