A Few New Paintings

One large:

"Ponte Vecchio" 24 x 30

One small:

"Brewer's Blackbird," 6 x 6 oil on panel

Lucy

Lucy, 6 x 6 oil on panel

This girl, a Scottie-Westie rescued from her career as a puppy mill producer, is just beginning to emerge from her shell and is learning to play like a normal dog. It's fun to watch her scamper around with her stuffed monkey in tow. From a painting perspective, mostly-black dogs are a challenge, and photographing this was difficult because surface textures produced by oils are so reflective. (And it's just those textures that make oil painting so much fun!)

Bid at Daily Paintworks.

Portland Bungalow

Bungalow 6 x 6 oil on panel

Northeast Portland houses remind me of how much personality and character pre-WWII homes have. This one is near the corner of a shady street in Portland's Hollywood district.
Bid at Daily Paintworks

Oregon Coast Studies

Coast Cliffs Study, 8 x 10 oil on linen on board

Lifting Fog, Oregon Coast 8 x 10 oil on linen board

Greens and Blues

Green and Blue Study, 6 x 6 oil on gesso board

A plein air study done at a nature park near my home. I intentionally broke some rules about de-emphasizing chroma of the background elements in a painting. I like the temperature contrasts between the (relatively) warmer greens and the cool blue-violets, and I just can't make myself  "grey" the blues. I appreciate the skills of the photo-realists, but I wanted to bounce those temperature variations against each other. This little study is feeding ideas about a possible larger painting or series.

Fun Run

Fun Run, 6 x 12 oil on linen on board

Barley the labradoodle has crazy fur that is too much fun to paint.

See at Daily Paintworks.

Treat-Seeker

Treat-Seeker, 6x6 oil on linen on board

Jack, our rescue spare-parts-dog, offers up his most hopeful expressions at meal-time. Painting such foreshortened shapes in a pose like this is an interesting challenge, because all you can do is paint "shapes of color."

See at Daily Paintworks.