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.

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.

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!

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

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

precipitation

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

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!