city music

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

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

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.

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!

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!

commons counter

ink/gouache sketch, 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

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

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

ballard sunday market

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

red beads

Today's daily, 6 x 6, oil on panel.

blue bottle

Here is yesterday's little painting, 4 x 6, oil on panel. Still wet and full of sparkles from the flash, will have to reshoot it later!

haunting green lake

This is a 8 x 10 oil sketch on canvas panel, painted a couple weeks ago. It was very cold and the fog had just lifted!

spoon before breakfast

From the past to the present: Here is a small (6 x 8) oil I painted last Saturday before breakfast! Still wet.