Dogtown San Diego

This coming Sunday, is the launch party for a friends website http://www.dogtownsandiego.com/. The site reaches thousands of dog owners in San Diego and keeps them up to date on events, charities, cocktail hours and businesses that are dog friendly. I have coordinated the art portion of the event. There will be several artists there who do pet portraits. Hotel Indigo is the location from 1pm to 4pm downtown! Should be fun and in honor of the event i have painted a piece of "Dozer" aka "Da Bull" surfing at a local contest in San Diego

Hitting the wall

every now and then, i feel as if i have hit a wall in terms of knowledge and skill set. I do need to take a work shop and improve my skills but the artists that i really enjoy, like George Coll, live out of state! i do read alot and that helps.....

This painting was done from a photo of a friend walking through yellowstone parks geyser park. Once again, i was drawn to the sihlouette and dark foreground with a very bright background. I grow with every painting.....thanks for looking!

this piece is 9 x 12 and available for sale. $150 unframed $15.00 for shipping.

capturing the sihlouette

I have always avoided adding people into my paintings becuase i feared that it would ruin what i was trying to do. but i am learning that people captured walking away or even towards the canvas, in shade can add a very interesting element to the painting....and create a story! i really like where this is going.

it has given my purpose in painting a entirely new direction.

Expanding Horizons

Today, Norm Daniels and i showed up at Balboa Park around 9am to get a painting in before our gallery meeting. we set up our easels and had aprox 45 minutes to get something on canvas. Trying to caputure the mood as the light changes is the challenge with plein air painting.

I am happy with the results of this peice because it truly was an exercise in spontaneity!