Denman Street Lamp

oil on panel, 11" x 14"

Just one of the many interesting features of the property where I now live, this street lamp sits outside the milking barn-cum-art studio-cum-brewery.  

Lynch Creek Mustard

oil on panel, 9" x 12"

Painted from a photo taken when the mustard was at its height in April, this scene looks east toward the hills of Sonoma from Lynch Creek Trail in east Petaluma.  It's a scene that I never seem to tire of, always changing yet very peaceful.

Blue Bird

oil on panel, 12" x 16"

After what feels like a long hiatus from painting as I relocated back to California from New Mexico in March, I'm picking up where I left off in my painting explorations before I moved out of state a little over a year ago.  At that time, I had just begun a process with a new set of tools and a new approach to painting that somehow got sidelined in New Mexico, where I digressed starting with a class I had taken at UNM, which may be the subject of a future post.  For now, I am happy to be in an experimental mode weaving abstract shapes in and around my subjects.