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!

teresa in the studio

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

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

serve yourself

oil on canvas, 29 x 38

half sweet

oil, 6 x 8

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!

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.

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.

ballard sunday market

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

precipitation

The view from my studio dock door, plein air oil on canvas, 20 x 30