Mt. Tam watercolor for Laura Austin Wiley, 4 x 6”

 

Mt. Tam from Ring Mountain, Tiburon. 4 x 6” watercolor and watercolor pencil

 

Alexander McCall Smith‘s Argyle, colored pencil, 6 x 9“

San Geronimo Valley community center spring art show

 

Yosemite Falls, watercolor, watercolor pencil, 6 x9”

 

Four quick oil paint sketches, 8x10" the

Thinking my painting for the SGV Spring Art Show was due on Tax Day, and wanting to test my newish Gamblin oil paints, I banged out four quick canvases while sitting in my car. Plein car. They were wet when I took the photos. Mt. St Helena from Sonoma Mountain is glistening, it's so wet. I haven't touched oil paints in 50 years, an allergy to turpentine made it impossible to breathe. Now there's Gamsol, a mineral oil, which opens up possibilities. Larry Rippe said no, you have two weeks. Reprieve. Sneaky Larry. I'm always late turning in my assignments.would I have done these four paintings? Had I known I had more time? Probably not. Carpe diem.

Lou Lambert’s Rockpile Ranch, Sonoma County, drawing 6x9”

Mt. St. Helena from Sonoma Mountain, drawing, 6 x9”

 

4 watercolors, 6x9”

I did four Michael’s Zoom watercolor classes in one day, each class involved a different technique, so they’re wildly unrelated.

This watercolor was saved by adding the drawing on top.

Watercolor based on an Egon Schiele painting

Mt. Tam from Ring Mountain, Tiburon, after a photo by Brian Woodsworth, stabilo, 6 x 9"

 

Little Sur River, stabilo 6x9”

 

SGVCC Spring Art Show, Chilean Valley, Storm, photograph, Elephant Mountain, stabilo 6x9". Sunflowers, Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit, Tempera 18x24"

 

Elephant Mountain, tempera on cardboard, 6 x 18"

I was teaching a Paintnight class after the Van Gogh immersive exhibit. I discovered that the Dollar Store Prang tempera paints were so watery and transparent they might as well have been finger-paint. This was a demo model I tried to salvage. But the paint was so thin, it buckled the cardboard. Since the cardboard was long and skinny, I just kept adding extra humps to Elephant Mountain. The piece knocked around in the back of my car for a few months before I rescued it.

After Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit, Sunflowers, and Starry Night, Tempera 18x24" (SGVCC Spring Art Show)

First time I’ve entered a painting in an art exhibit before it was dry.

 

Two views of Mt. Tamalpias, stabilo pencil, 6x9”

From a Facebook photo by Scott Hess

 

Fjaðrárgljúfur Gorge, I think, SE Iceland, drawings from photos, 6x9” stabilo

 

Mt Tam, wetlands, stabilo 6x9”

From a Facebook photo by Karen Laffy

 

3 views of Elephant Mountain, 6x9”, & 4x4.5” stabilo

Fjaðrárgljúfur Gorge, SE Iceland, drawings from photos, 6x9” stabilo

 

Desert landscape 2, pencil, 9 x 6”