seek and ye shall find

Hide and Seek, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"

Left the studio window open so this painting could dry, and a major windstorm sent in its suggestions for improvement. Have to say the weather is always right!

swing dancing

Rising Melody, copyright 2010, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40"

another jazz tune, this time with big band and wah-wah

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.

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

visiting the floodplain

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

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.

the gas works

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

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!

lake forest park

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

under the bridge

5 x 7 oil sketch from last week in Tacoma

rainbow street (detail)

oil on canvas, 48 x 46

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).

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...

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.

someone's heaven

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