Monday, March 28, 2011

OKLAHOMA COUNTRY SCENE

9x12
oil
palette knife/brush


This typical northern Oklahoma scene is near the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve.

This will be a painting I will most likely use for class.  It offers lessons in perspective, value, and shapes.

It is getting to be prime plein aire time in Oklahoma.  It is getting warmer, greener, windier, and buggier ( is that in the dictionary?)  

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

LOVE THOSE KNIFE PAINTERS!!


A great class last evening.........as you can see, everyone is doing well with the palette knife technique.  We used a photo I took when I painted the same scene at Keystone last Saturday.  I so enjoy teaching the class and I love these guys.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

KEYSTONE WOODS IN MARCH

8x10
Palette knife and brush
oil/canvas board

Yesterday was perhaps our first perfect spring day this year.   The temperature was in the low 70's and the winds were mild and pleasant.
So, a great time to be out painting.
I met a friend at the Keystone Woods and we spent the day painting, eating, and visiting.

The woods are always paintable and now they are in flux, shedding winter and adding summer.  This scene is one I particularly liked.  The path goes up the hill then round behind the big cedar becoming a wider path, now a lane that leads you through
almost a canopy of cedars with a
glimpse of sky at the end......another
painting for another day.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

LANDSCAPE PAINTER PAINTS ROOSTER

8X10
palette knife, oil
 
THE ROOSTER OF AJIJIC

On my first trip to Mexico, quite a few years back, I fell in love with roosters.  My friend, Joyce, and I took tons of photos of roosters, all loaded with personality, this  one especially so.  Roosters are also very good at being your alarm clock.  I woke to the call of several every morning I was there.

This guy was our lesson for class this week.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

CALIFORNIA CYPRESS

9X12
oil/palette knife

When on Carpinteria beach, if you turn to face away from the ocean, there is this marvelous view of cypress outlined against the mountain and sky.  I am sure it has been painted by many artists.  I took a bit of artistic liberty and changed the outline of the mountains a bit.   Marvelous day there, high sixties and no wind.