midsummer july

summer time for travel - from the desert (Scottsdale, AZ) to the mountains (Sierras) and the sea (back home again). So much beautiful landscape and endless things to discover. Not as much time to paint in the middle of it all.

Opening reception for the Santa Paula Art Museum, 'Art of Aviation' show was fun - I will also have a piece in the nearby Aviation Museum.

The SCAPE show for the Surfrider Foundation (at the Faulkner Gallery) is filled with paintings of the local coast, including six of my pieces - 4 oils and 2 gouaches. This will be up until the end of the month.

I'll have a small gouache in the Palm Loft Gallery for the Carpinteria Bluffs fundraiser, opening this coming weekend.

And if you happen to see the latest issue of California Fly-Fisher magazine, I am the featured artist on the "Art of Angling" page. Pretty fun! 

Here are some new gouaches from my time in the mountains:

meadow edge, 4"x4"

sad to see so many dead trees - victims of drought, beetles and fungus.

old/new
3"x4"





i've painted this old stump and the new fir coming up next to it many times - something about it always gets my attention.

sierra post-office, 4"x4"

great old building serving the local population near the cabin.