Category Archives: Plein Air

23rd Anniversary Celebration for Vistas and Vineyards

Tonight’s the night!  The show is up of selected work from a terrific summer of plein air painting.  There is an awards reception from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Giustina Gallery at the LaSalles Center on the OSU Campus.  The … Continue reading

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Philomath Open Studio Tour 2011

Philomath Open Studio Tour is this weekend and the next! Yesterday, Harold Wood and I set up our show at Spindrift Winery in Philomath.  Our studios are too far from town to engage the public so we are depending on … Continue reading

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Get Ready

The workshop with Erik Sandgren was great: mixing my edges from hard to soft, my forms from warm to cool, designing the picture plane as well as the painting composition and, most importantly, making space on paper.  He advised that … Continue reading

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Plein Air Summer has Begun

Today I am off to Tyee Vineyards to paint with Eric Sandgren at the Vineyards and Vistas teach in paint out.  Here is a painting from last summer on a day at Amity Vineyards under threatening skies.

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Must Be Spring

Geez, it has been a long gray slog to June.  Met with my critique group Tuesday night and they suggested a few improvements to this painting which really work.  Wish I could have painted with Vineyards and Vistas yesterday, the … Continue reading

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