looking east

East From the Gas Works, 30" x 40", acrylic on canvas, 2010.

bon voyage

Bon Voyage, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40"

one more from fishermen's terminal

Our first FT visit for 2010 was in the rain! My acrylic sketch of the Anita was quite melty when we packed up, but I punched it up back in the studio.

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!