The Hideaway

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Central Park in Winter

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

City Park in Summer

acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48"

This is a work in progress, a work of imagination, and the largest I've attempted to date.  We'll see how it goes from here.

Cruising Down the Li

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Lola in the Wind

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Cornerstone on a Cloudy Day

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 12"

Harrie in the Desert

acrylic on canvas, 30" x 20"

This one's for Roy, or maybe from him.  I had to do it.

Birds in Paradise

acrylic on canvas, 30" x 36"

This is the last painting in my "Goleta" series.  It is by far the largest plein air painting I have done to date.  There is something freeing about painting large canvases outdoors, so long as the weather cooperates, which it did on this occasion.  

mm

acrylic on canvas paper, 9" x 12"

This started as an exercise in grays, since the reference for it was a black and white photo.  Naturally, one thing led to another, and there you go.

Shollenberger Wetlands

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Painted from a photo I had taken of the wetlands at Shollenberg Park, I wanted to capture the beautiful neutral color of the water.  It had this pearl-like glow the day I saw it.

Red Sunset

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"

Goleta Slough, Eastern View

acrylic on linen-mounted gatorfoam, 24" x 12"

Another plein air painting from the Santa Barbara area that was finished in the studio.

Goleta Beach

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 24"

Another plein air painting from my trip south a few weeks ago, this one also finished in the studio.

Desert Dawn

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Goleta Slough

acrylic on linen mounted on gatorboard, 12" x 16"

I recently spent a few days painting at Goleta Beach, just north of Santa Barbara, with Marcia Burtt, hoping to glean a few pearls of wisdom from an absolute master.  In the two plus days I had with her, I started five paintings and finished none.  This was my last effort, the result of a two-hour session on the morning of my return home.  I worked on it for another two hours in the studio, until I was done with it and the next unfinished painting called out to me.  More to come.

A Prayer for Christine

acrylic on canvas panel, 9" x 12"

NFS

This was painted while my housemate and friend Christine was having breast reconstruction surgery after breast cancer.  It is going to live with her now, and I am very pleased.

BJ on Blue Bed

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

A little sketch of a beautiful and very tired feral cat who adopted us at Waldruhe Heights back in 2006.  BJ stood for Bonzo Junior, Roy's dog, and also Betty Jo, a dear friend of his.

Nicasio Reservoir

acrylic on canvasboard, 12" x 16"

This was done from a photo I took at a spot that was not amenable to onsite painting.

Guilin

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Yet another painting in my China series.  I used a very limited palette of only 4 colors for this one, trying to create atmosphere and depth in the background.

Porch View, Rose and Tony's Place

acrylic on gessoboard, 12" x 12"

This is a plein air sketch I did the other day at Rose and Tony's house in rural Petaluma after a storm blew through the area.

Above the Fog at Dawn

acrylic on masonite panel, 16" x 20"

This was to be the underpainting of a scene looking down at Nicasio Valley on a cold, foggy morning, but I'm finished with it for now.

Enterprise Road

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Lower Nelligan Road

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Nelligan Road is a gorgeous road outside the town of Glen Ellen, Sonoma County.  Roy and I lived at the end of the 4-mile-long road, and I gawked at this scene daily.

Eric's Optimistic

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Me and My Shadow

oil on hardboard panel, 12" x 9"

I was just playing around with this study from a found photo of someone else's painting -- whose I have no idea, but was drawn to the purple sky at first.  Sky can be any color imaginable -- in fact, the sky's the limit!

Bougainvillea Pond at Haidao Island

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Another in my China series, this painting no longer exists, except for the rock formations in the foreground.  I worked on this a few months ago and was not happy with it but vowed to rework it.  I thought I would post it just for the record.

Potala Palace

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 24"

China and Tibet just won't leave me alone, so here is another in that series, a quick painting sketch of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.

View from the Cheese Factory

oil on hardboard panel, 12" x 9"

I'm cheating a bit with this one, which I did around this time last year at the Cheese Factory in Marin.

Wolfy

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

This painting started as an abstract, but of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, and before I knew it, I was channeling Wolf Kahn.  This time I had the sense to leave well enough alone.  

Update, 1/7/2018:  Extensive additional information on Wolf Kahn and his work can also be found at www.artsy.net.

Yellow Field

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"

Le Bistro

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Paint

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Marion

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Ely Road Farm, Late Afternoon

acrylic on gessoboard, 8" x 10"

A plein air painting of a farm I spotted on Ely Road in Petaluma.

D and 10th Street, Petaluma

iPad painting, 14" and 10"

The back view of a large house on the corner of D and 10th Streets in Petaluma.

Bolinas Lagoon

acrylic on MDF panel, 12" x 16"

This is a plein air painting I did the other day from the roadside just outside the town of Bolinas, looking across the lagoon to the wilderness beyond.  It is a spot I will return to again because it is a scene of such staggering beauty.

Gracy

acrylic on canvas, 8" x 6"

This is a portrait I did a few years ago that never got posted.

Ipswich Abstract #1

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Ovanes's Roses

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

This is a color study using a still life painting of Ovanes Berberian as reference.  I love red.

Light on Lavender

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Essentially a cloud painting, this is a study of what will later be used to create a canvas painting.  Add it to the list, Geeves, will you?

Ely Road

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

The Swimming Hole

acrylic on canvas, 6" x 12"

A plein air sketch that I started tweaking in the studio, then stopped because it all started to go pear-shaped.  I couldn't remember how I mixed the colors that day by the pond, and once you start in with a slightly different palette, there's no end to the changes that ensue.  I liked some things about this effort sufficiently to want to preserve them.  So, I chalk this one up to a successful learning experience.  Onward!

Marcia's Pond

acrylic on masonite panel, 9" x 12"

This was started as a plein air on Marcia Burtt's beautiful property, but I ran out of time with it and so had to finish in the studio.

Limantour Beach

acrylic on canvas, 10" x 30"

This is an attempt at a seascape.  I battled with it mightily and perhaps should have stopped after the first session, as my paints had dried and I had to remix an approximation of the palette, which changed everything, of course.  Another challenge was presented by the yellow ochre ground on the canvas I had chosen.  I loved the yellow ground peeking through as the painting emerged, especially in the mid ground on the right.  This is not an accurate image of the painting, colorwise, and I may not be done with this one.  I need a break from it, though, and to come back with fresh eyes. 

Old Rancheria Road

acrylic on canvas, 11" x 14"

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Slugger

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Dusty Spring Field

acrylic on canvas paper, 12" x 9"

Cho Oyu Study

oil on canvas panel, 8" x 8"

Another study of Cho Oyu, the mountain peak in the distance of the Himalayas of Nepal/Tibet.  

Spirit Rock, Early Morning

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

David

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

A little iPad portrait of David Hockney.