While at the Mural Gallery for my November shift, I painted. My goal was to be productive in between customers by completing some of the plein air paintings from the week in Monterey. Worked out pretty well. As I was moving everything out to my car, I looked east and remembered many reason I always […]
Plein Air Painting in Three Rivers
Krista asked me to paint again with her at the airport bridge in Three Rivers on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Before I went, I hung out with Jackson a little bit. He wasn’t very hungry because he let the gopher live. Didn’t even pounce. I drove to the same place with its multiple No Parking […]
Plein Air Painting in Three Rivers
For about 2 years, my friend Krista has been asking me to paint with her in Three Rivers. Last week we had an entire day without electricity, phones, internet, so it seemed like a good time to leave home and paint outside. Besides, it is always a pleasure to hang out with a friend, especially […]
Plein Air or Studio?
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. […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Architecture at Asilomar
Many of the buildings at Asilomar were designed by Julia Morgan, the architect best known for designing the Hearst Castle in San Simeon. She is also known for many fine buildings in Berkeley, AND a building at the Springville Hospital (for TB) here in Tulare County, now torn down due to earthquake standards. Roomie and […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey, Day 6 (PM)
Piños Point Lighthouse was pulling me, just like that Rocky Creek Bridge. I love architecture and really like to paint (and draw) a blend of man-made and God-made subjects. The trouble was that the lighthouse has very limited hours. By the time I finished painting at Lover’s Point Park, there were only 1-1/2 hours hour […]