Abstracted Landscape of 10-27-2025

oil on canvas paper, 12" x 12"

A loose palette knife study to distract me from the urban scene I'm currently struggling with.

Sunset Study

 

oil on panel, 12" x 12"

This is just a quick little cloud study over an estuary.  I'm in a flurry of activity finishing, varnishing and framing paintings for my first ever exhibit in mid-February.  I've been painting for 20 years and it's well past time I parted with a few of them.  Gonna try to squeeze in some more little ones as time permits.

Cloudy Landscape Study

 

oil on canvasboard, 8" x 8"

A palette knife landscape study of clouds.  It's been a hard week, having lost my fur baby of 17+ years a week ago last Friday.  She was my constant companion for nearly all of that time.  I've been grieving ever since.  Forced myself to work in the studio for a wee bit yesterday, when I did this study, and was able to work longer in there today on a new painting.  

A Brief Interlude

 

oil on panel, 12" x 12"

Another bird study, this one of a white-bellied sea eagle.  I was drawn to the intensity of the stare.

Abstracted Landscape Study 9.28.2022

 

oil on panel, 6" x 6"

Just a quick little palette knife study of a cloud system over a flat landscape.  I like the role the gray plays in this one.

Sunlit Ridge

acrylic on canvas paper, 12" x 12"

Painted from a photo, here's another quickie I did to distract me from the two paintings I'm currently struggling with.  I think it helps to do these quick studies, because I notice that it puts me in a different frame of mind when I return to the more challenging paintings.

Taos Mountain with Cows and Clouds

oil on canvas, 12" x 36"

This was a scene that I passed by daily in Taos, NM.  Every time I drove past it, I had to stare at that magnificent mountainous landscape.  The photo I worked from was taken in July, so this is a summer scene.  The mountain has many moods within each season, however, and I am not done with it, not by a long shot.  

Russian River at Jenner

oil on gessoed textured hardboard panel, 6" x 12"

This started as a plein air painting on a mostly overcast day, but I was none too happy with my effort, so I reworked it in the studio.  It didn't help that the panel I had chosen was damaged in the upper left corner and was one of those textured surface panels made to emulate canvas that I don't care for, but it was the only 6" x 12" format I had brought with me.  It seemed that no matter how much paint I applied, the texture still showed through.  I prefer to work on actual canvas or a smooth hard surface, the simple reason being that I want the paint application to form the texture, not the prepared surface.  Lesson learned, in the future I will either sand down the textured surface or gesso a layer or two over it so as to smooth out those ridges.

Sunset at Secret Beach

oil on canvasboard, 8" x 8"

This is essentially a cloud study done from a photo of Secret Beach on Kauai, my favorite Hawaiian island.  Update:  I have uploaded a more accurate image of this painting, as the one I posted earlier today was too light.

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?