This is Asilomar State Beach, the first place I set up an easel to paint plein air, which means feet in the sand, wind in my hair, hair in my eyes, and easel fighting gravity. This is my painting of Asilomar Beach, brought into submission in the confines of my painting workshop (i.e. studio). This […]
A Studio Painter, for Certain.
The week in Monterey was a great enjoyable time, and also a real learning experience. So many beautiful things to paint, it almost didn’t matter if we drove anywhere or just stayed put. Plein air has never appealed to me, and it was stinkin’ hard, but I think I got better as the week progressed. […]
Before the Solo Show “Simply Home”
Today’s post is a bit behind reality, a peek into what happened before the show was hung or opened. When I got home from Monterey, I had to dive into getting all my work together to deliver to CACHE, the gallery hosting my solo show, “Simply Home”. More than anything, I wanted to detail and […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: One Last Peek
Among the 100 or so folks in Monterey at Fall Color Week, there were fantastic painters along with rank amateurs: my work fell solidly in the middle. I am a studio painter, and this whole thing stretched me. I could go on and on about what I learned, but I suspect that if you are […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: the Area
Today I will show you photos from the area. There are so many that I will just do it as a “gallery”, which is a collection of photos without all the chit-chat. Okay, maybe a tiny bit of chit-chat to explain 2 of the photos. Or maybe 3. Simply Home Today’s painting from Simply Home, […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: Sunset and Sundries
Although I am still going on and on about the week of plein air painting in Monterey, now that Simply Home has opened, I will show a painting from the show each day until I either run out of paintings or run out of days. Each evening I ate dinner quickly, grabbed a to-go cup […]
Simply Home, Now Open!
We arrived about 15 minutes before the reception began, and the light was so nice coming around from the side of the gallery. This is the early moment of Is It All Ready? before people arrive, the moments when I think, “Oh no, what if no one shows up??” The gallery board is so welcoming, […]
Final Weekend of the 2024 Mineral King Season
Business first First, an ad. I hope to see you all (my tens of readers) on Saturday! Mineral King Many people enjoy Mineral King in summer; fewer make it there in the fall, and a very few make it up in the winter (for many good reasons, beginning with the locked gates). I think of […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: Friends
As we spent time painting or at meals or meetings, we gradually got to know one another and learn names, although there was a lot of name-tag reading all week long. I met John Lynch of Toronto on the first day, so his name got cemented into my overloaded memory. John spent several mornings working […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: Sunrises
We were a group of about 100 people at Asilomar, plein air painting together, walking on the beach together, having meals together, meeting together in the morning and the evening, and sharing living quarters (unless we paid an additional astronomical fee for a private room). With a crowd of enthusiastic painters, I had to work […]