joy

a fairly recent acrylic sketch on canvas, 8 x 8. Three stages of its creation are viewable on my flickr site!

abstract life

Here's my latest large abstract, Fish Term -- I know, another jazz painting, another fishermen's terminal painting, ho hum!!!

Veterans' Day

Here is a relatively new painting, 12 x 12 acrylic on canvas. It started out as this drawing in white ink on black gesso:

then became this painting:

city music

another dancing jazz cityscape! this one is 30" x 40" acrylic on canvas, alla prima.

4th night jazz

still revisiting jazz painting days (and nights) -- here's the latest, 24 x 36 acrylic on canvas.

who is with me in these woods?

Newest painting, acrylic alla prima on canvas, 12 x 12.
References an older (1998) small pastel viewable here: http://paintingeveryday.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-is-with-me-in-woods.html

stone way

Here is an acrylic done in the studio, referencing a photo I took with one hand at a stoplight on my daily commute. 24 x 36, acrylic on canvas. My friends seems to like it, especially the local ones who recognize the weather! Was going for a watercolor effect, but wanted the permanence of acrylic.

visiting the floodplain

Ah, Skagit Valley rain! This is 12 x 12 acrylic on canvas.

jazz night

Trying to figure out how to get luminous color jazz going in a permanent medium that doesn't need protection from the elements. Love the way gouache sits up on gessoed board; want to get acrylic to do the same so I don't have to spray-varnish. Meanwhile, here is my latest such experiment with gouache. 9 x 12. Still in the first glow with this one, I admit I love it!

the gas works revisited

Here is a small sketch from our Urban Sketchers - Seattle crawl last month. Love painting in this park, 300 degrees of city/water/industrial view! It's about 4 x 6, inks-and-gouache on black paper.

flowerpot experiment

So I got a little crazy and started painting with gouache on a little piece of black-gessoed hardboard; liked the way the paint beaded up and waited to dry... then I varnished it with acrylic spray varnish and, voila! it's rich and shiny (can't see that here) and no need to put glass over this medium anymore; no need to frame it if it's painted on a hangable board. Makes me too happy altogether! This was my little 4x4 experimental thingy.

experimental jazz

everything old is new again. here's a 4 x 6 sketch in gouache and ink. tulips may be coming back at last.

blue house

Would love to just set up somewhere on the lake each day and paint whichever house is nearby. Here is one where I had that pleasure, albeit quickly!

secret gardens of lake forest park

Here is a little 8 x 6 plein air oil sketch from the garden of Carolyn and Chuff Barden of Lake Forest Park.

the gas works

today's 8 x 16 oil sketch -- think this would make an interesting larger painting! (like 30 x 60 or so)

fishermen's terminal

A beautiful day at Seattle's working docks. Don't know why this place is not crawling with painters. Here is my afternoon's 8x8 oil sketch.

across green lake this morning

Today's 6 x 8 plein air oil sketch! The morning was lovely!

the factory behind freighthouse square

Here's this week's 6 x 8 oil sketch!

pike place park

gouache, 3.5 x 11. This couple left just before a gaggle of religious pamphleteers descended upon us at Victor Steinbrueck Park. They all gave their names as "Jay," and oblivious to one another's failures to engage us in substantive discussion, each in turn attempted to save us. I guess painting in the park makes us fair game!

teresa in the studio

10-year-old portrait of my friend-the-longest, oil, 18 x 12

commons counter

ink/gouache sketch, 3.5 x 11

ballard locks

here's my first sketch of the day from Seattle Plein Air's meetup at the locks on Saturday. Ink and gouache, 3.5 x 11

lake forest park

5 x 7 oil sketch: looking south across Bothell Way from the Commons at Third Place Books

in the commons

yesterday's sketch from the bookstore at Lake Forest Park, oil on panel, 8 x 10

fencepost study

yesterday's color study sketch, oil on hardboard, 8 x 8

under the bridge

5 x 7 oil sketch from last week in Tacoma

mossy roof

oil sketch from the deck of a boat on the Point Ruston waterway (Dock Street, Tacoma) last week! 12 x 16

rainbow street (detail)

oil on canvas, 48 x 46

serve yourself

oil on canvas, 29 x 38

the gate

Yesterday's sketchcrawl effort. Here is the Gate to Seattle's International District as seen from Yummy Bakery. 3.5 x 5.5, ink and gouache.

half sweet

oil, 6 x 8

pink lamp incident

jazz, 24 X 36, 1998; private collection.

be careful what you wish for (detail)

oil on canvas, about 30 x 36. All about family....

industrial tower

today's 8 x 6 plein air oil sketch of a view from under a dramatic Tacoma bridge. This tower was tiny on the horizon but glowing in the sun!

dawn

a gouache conversion of ink drawing from sketchcrawl. 9 x 8, 2008

dan, protected by bog flowers

watercolor, 18 x 27. private collection.

bliss

ink and watercolor, 4 x 6 inches -- a little doodle of our duckling.

higher and lighter

pastel in wet on paper. About 18 x 13 (has been on loan for awhile, I'd have to look up the measurements).

do you want to dance?

Finally, a figurative piece. I wasn't going to put these up! But here is one. Oil, 29 x 40.

ton plaisir

pastel in wet on paper. Collection of Terry and John Walsh.

horizon

watercolor, 8 x 18

haunting heaven

pastel in wet on paper, 30 x 40. My beloved old Wallingford neighborhood...

pink rat

jazz acrylic on paper, 24 x 36

thanksgiving day

Here is a little oil sketch from last fall, 6 x 8 on canvas/hardboard panel. I painted it in the parking lot of the hospital where I had spent so much time previously with my dad, and even more previously with my mom. Since it was a holiday parking was free.

treescape

oil on linen, 22 x 28.

zebra coat

This is a fractured image painting referencing one of my more elaborate fiber pieces. Heavy-weave patterned silk was first dyed in the shibori tradition, and then fashioned into the Zebra Coat. For this image I laid it out somewhat flat and placed objects of personal meaning to me across it; then crossed this pattern with garden swaths in the painted image. Watercolor, 36 x 54.

someone's heaven

The view from the dock accessing my studio in 1998; watercolor and pastel; commissioned, in private collection.

ballard sunday market

plein air oil sketch on gessoed masonite with acrylic underpainting, 9 x 12; August 2008.

glowing impalas

acrylic on paper, jazz animals series, 24 x 36. Collection of Pamela McDonald.