open space

good to be back out painting locally - it's cooler, with morning marine layer, near the beach and inland with all the fires - now in clean-up stage - it's downright hot and muggy. so rather than going to the watershed, we checked out a new spot, arroyo burro open space park. 

We started early and fog moved out as we worked, so I tried to get 2 quick studies done.

hazy morning, arroyo burro,  9"x12" oil on panel

mid-day, arroyo burro, 8"x10" oil on panel

summer mid-july

summer and it's attendant behaviors - fire, heat and wind. 
spent some time in the sierras - a bit of painting time and just being in the forest. some quick oil studies at 9000' in the high country.

old forest service cabin, kaiser ridge
oil on panel 
5"x7"

old man tree
oil on panel
5"x7"

early moonrise, smokey sky 
oil on panel 
5"x7"

pine point, from the lake
oil on panel
5"x7"








and a small gouache of a local boat rental shack:

boat shack, 
gouache on paper
4"x6"





I have some work up in the annual Semana Nautica art show at the Cabrillo Arts center, juried by Ralph Waterhouse. I won an honorable mention for 'beached boat'.
This show will be up through July 30.

beached boat, gouache on paper, 3"x6"

low tide, haskell's beach
gouache on paper 
3"x4"

mendocino coast, gouache on paper, 4"x4"



The Easton Gallery will close at the end of the month - current show on view until July 30