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Olallie Morning
This painting from Olallie State Park was begun on location in the fall of 2021, and finished in the studio in the first month of 2022.
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Juanita Beach Park Apunte
I went painting on a Sunday with a few of my students, to Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland WA. It was a hot day that was barely mitigated by shade that we found along the creek.
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Work In Progress: The Old Junk Store
This is a work in progress, an old junk store in Snohomish WA. I've worked on this over several sessions, usually with students also painting. The traffic is pretty thick, and often parked cars obscure the view of the storefront.
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Winter Lectures Series
I will be offering a series of lecture/demos this winter. They will take place in my studio and will cover the following subjects:
Lecture 1: Painting Really Large in a Really Small Studio
Lecture 2: Studio Practice for the Plein Air Painter
Lecture 3: Realism - Two Hundred Years of Revolution
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Off 151st (Snohomish)
This is an alla prima (at one sitting) painting of a favorite view of the Snohomish Valley, above Hwy 2. It's easy to see the level of particulate matter (ppm) in the color of the sky nearest the horizon. It's the smoke. I once read that the pollution around Paris made the Impressionists' skies more interesting. That which doth not kill us makes our paintings stronger.
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Pond
This painting was done in the later years that I was painting at Pepper's Farm, on the Snoqualmie River. The only image that I have been able to find of it was uploaded several years ago to Google Photos, when it was still called Picasa.
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Plein Air at Rotary Park
This is a work-in-progress, a painting that has been chased all over the place over the past year. The main problem is that the City of Everett neglects to trim back the foreground, and I keep having to shift my point-of-view to see my subject. By summer's end I suspect that the Snohomish River will no longer be visible, and I'll just be painting a profusion of jungle à la Le Douanier Rousseau.
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Snohomish Valley w/ Mount Rainier
This painting, done in 2008, has never been exhibited. I was never really satisfied with the treatment of the distant Mount Rainier, and I may revisit the painting again with brush in hand.
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Larsen Lake Blueberry Farm
At the suggestion of my student Sarah Anderson, we’ve been painting at Larsen Lake Blueberry Farm, in Bellevue, WA. It’s a beautiful spot, with interesting views of the lake and the farm itself.
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Plein Air Season Is Here!
This painting was begun over a year ago. It had been painted during the midsummer months where everything is boringly green. I had never been completely satisfied with it, so decided to rework the painting in mid-spring, hoping that the more dynamic range of tertiary colors and deeper atmospheric perspective would make a more interesting image.
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Sunshine Celebration Plein Air Class Sale
Summer finally seems to have arrived, and I’m celebrating the Sun’s rejuvenating rays by having a sale on Plein Air Class Session Credits. You can go to my classes page for details about the sale, which include some of the deepest discounts I’ve offered.
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Bothell Landing 3
I returned to Bothell Landing with several plein air students this past week, and reworked an image that was begun at this time a year ago. Looking up the slough, with the early sun passing through the trees and lighting the embankment beyond, there was one difference: This year the Cottonwood trees had decided to let loose their snow-flurry of puffy seeds a bit early.
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Plein Air Christmas Sale!!!
Give the gift of Plein Air! I’m currently offering a Christmas/Mid-Winter sale on packages of 8 and 16 Plein Air Classes. Check out the “Classes” page of my website for the discounted price. Package also includes 2 bonus sessions in my painting studio during the winter months.
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Beat the Clock! Flash Sale For Plein Air Classes.
Update: This sale is now over.
I’m currently having a flash sale for Plein Air Class Sessions, available through my website. If you have been thinking about trying plein air, and would like to do so under professional instruction, please check out the deep discounts that are being offered. If you are a current student whose session credits are running out, now is the time to renew!
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Online, Interactive Painting Critiques
I am launching an Online Painting Critique Service. The service utilizes image annotation and interactive/collaborative software with whiteboarding capabilities, in order to create an interactive critique experience geared to a specific painting or group of paintings.
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Work-In-Progress: Snohomish Valley Spring
Some works-in-progress at Snohomish Valley viewpoint. One is a reworking of a panel that I was not satisfied with. I’m much happier with the changes, both compositionally and atmospherically.
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Plein Air Classes Beginning in April
Plein Air Classes begin mid April, with the first location being in Seattle.
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Last Promo For Plein Air Classes!
I’m having one last promotion for Plein Air Classes that begin in April. There is a counter on my website that indicates how long the promotion will last.
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Flash Sale Over!
The Plein Air Class session credit Flash Sale is over. My apologies to those that wanted to sign up at the discounted rate.
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Plein Air – Foster Island
Here is another Arboretum/Foster Island piece that was done in 2001, working alongside my plein air class.
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Plein Air Class Flash Sale!
I’m currently having a Flash Sale for Plein Air Painting session credits, with savings up to $180. There is a counter on my Classes page that is counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds that these discounts will be available. You can BEAT THE CLOCK by signing up right away!
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Looking Forward To Plein Air
I’m looking forward to better weather, and further excursions into the world of plein air work. This particular piece was done at Fishermens’ Terminal in Seattle, and became the study for the much larger painting of the same name.
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Morning Fog 2: Snohomish Valley
Another effort to capture the eternally escaping light, while life sifts through our grasping fingers like sand in an hourglass.
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Morning Fog: Snohomish Valley
Started painting at 7 AM with student Min Zhong. When we arrived, the early morning fog was lying low in the valley.
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Painting at North Passage Point Park
I spent today painting with my student Min Zhong at North Passage Point Park, under the 1-5 University overpass. It was a great gray day.
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Port Townsend Ferry
Port Townsend Ferry began as a generic Puget Sound demo, done from memory and imagination during Suzanne Brooker’s painting class at Gage Academy in Seattle.
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Spring Through Fall Plein Air Workshops
I’ll be resuming regularly scheduled plein air painting classes this April. They go from April to November, we meet Tuesday and Sunday from 10 AM to 2:30 PM, with alternate sessions replacing bad weather days.
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