"HEAD'N OUT"

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For the Laguna Art Festival
I love painting these and was inspired by my own blog "that a lucky lady now has." So here it is again on canvas. To paint shiny objects is just such a thrill and the airstream gives me that need for realism and abstraction all rolled into one painting. "What a joy." The size of this is 24"X30" and as always, painted in oils.

"APRIL SHOWERS"

5.50"X5.50 oil on wood panel
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This is heading out of New Mexico after this genteel rain turning the sky this incredible blue. This painting worked so easily that I was taken back when done, funny how sometimes that happens

"OFF RAMP"

6"X6" oil on wood panel.


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Here I am on a rainy late Tuesday at 5:30 in LA getting off the freeway and knowing, I'm going to be late for dinner.

"LONG DRIVE HOME"

6"X6" oil on wood panel.


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This was a slow drive back home and we all new dinner was going to be late.
Yes, I'm in the line of cars on the left.

"GET OUT OF TOWN"

5.25X5.50 oil on
canvas on wood

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The many highway & byway that meander this country is amazing.

"FUNZONE or LOST BALLOON"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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The joy of painting memories is the ability to conjure up feeling, tastes & smells of a time gone by.

"ROAD TIME"

5.4"X5.7" oil on canvas mounted on wood.


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I love paintings these, I see them on the hwy's and Its camera time for me... Painting reflections is just plain fun.

"WHAT A WONDERFUL VIEW"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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Here is a nice soft pallette with heavy under-painting going on. This is up north and I took artistic license to change the location on the lighthouse.

"NOT BAD"

5.5"X5.7" oil on wood panel


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I found this photo I had taken a long time ago and with the memories of this trip and the hotel & restaurant where the food was "not bad" I thought it would be fun to paint. There is so much paint on this little panel for I had painted over another so it gave a nice build-up and allowed me to keep it loose and thats a nice treat for me.

"FRESH RAINS"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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So here is a new blog that I finely was able to get to, I must say, not doing the daily blogs and seeing guys like Edwards and the rest of you bloggers producing, I get jealous even tho I'm painting my big canvases everyday, its just not the same. That being said, here is a new painting. I just landed on the island and one of its many rains had just stopped. I did this painting hoping to capture the feeling of the humidity and feeling that prevails there like no other place.

"FULL BLOOM"

6"X6' oil on canvas mounted on wood (SOLD)

Just an amazing color to this flower. Nature never makes a mistake.

"FLOWER SHADOWS"

6"X5.50" oil on mounted canvas.

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The painting was taken from a photo shoot at a magical place in Newport Beach called Rogers Gardens.I must have spent day's there looking and enjoying all that surrounded me. It is a place of only positive thoughts.

"FIRST BLOOM"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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I have never painted a flower this small and I must say, "I really like this process."
This will be the first in a series working from a photo study I did on flowers some years back. The canvases I painted on at the time were 48"x48" up to 72"X72".... So here I am 15 years later, looking at my photos with new interest and excitement on doing them for my blog. This is the first of, of however many I paint. Enjoy.

"SURFS-UP"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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Here is the second seascape study taken from my photos of the surf at Newport beach. These two got me thinking of what and how I wonted to approach a larger canvas that you can see by going to: (Process)

"THE WEDGE"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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Here is one of two studies for a larger canvas that I'm working on. I don't paint many seascapes but every now and then I'll confront the challenge and that they are. My challenge is to give it life, it must provoke the feelings of being there, I want to be able to feel the spray and taste the salt.

"THE MEADOW"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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I was struck by the light coming through the trees and playing on the land. It was painted by dabbing colors on using a flat soft brush till I got the tonality I wanted.

"MY PATH"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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Here is another example of tone and mood. I must say, the original is much richer in color as is all. Every thing was painted excepted the trees in pointillism. As for the name, it is a metaphor of my own path as who I am.

" A QUIET STROLL"

6"X6" oil on wood panel $95

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A study in tone, shade and mood, keeping the painting loose so the coloring alone would set the feeling of, a quiet stroll.

"GLASS CANDY #4&5"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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Love painting these and to keep them fresh looking in such a small area is a wonderful challenge.

"YOUR TURN"

6"X6" oil on wood panel.

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Just for fun and a wonderful change from painting my larger canvases as my show draws ever so close.

"PASSING THROUGH"

5X5.5 oil on wood panel

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This is a study for a much bigger canvas painting for my upcoming show. I'll show the progress on that painting.

"MY HIDEAWAY"

5.5"X5" oil on canvas mounted on wood panel










I told you I would finish today. This is a place that a good friend and an incredible fisherman taught me how to catch bass.

"SHADOWS"

5/12"X6"oil on canvas
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On a trip up north in California I pass this oak tree and the sun just breaking through.

"THE SHORES"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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I took this shot leaning out the window of my car. The contrast of the gray sky and this fifty-ish hotel gave me the mood I was hoping to find on my quest for subjects.

"DISTANT LIGHTS"

6"X6" oil on wood panel


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It was late in the day and I was tired after a long days drive. I could see the lights in the distance and knew sleep would come soon. This painting is part of an ongoing series of black & whites painted in oils, you can click at the top of my blog on "Canvases past & present" and see my larger canvases in B&W.

"QUIET STREAM"

6"X6" oil on wood panel.

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In the back country of Kansas City Missouri behind my nephews home, it was the first snow of the year.

"STOP"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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There I was leaving Gallup New Mexico when here is this stop sign for no reason, I think someone is playing a joke.

"COOL ELDORADO"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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Cruising the Palm Springs with the top down on a hot summers day I spot this Eldorado in the the shade.

"MEL'S"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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Passing through a small town in the middle of nowhere going somewhere I stopped, went in to Mils to catch a flick and eat some popcorn & chocolate raisinettes, gotta have that combo.

"ROCKETS/GOOD EAT'S"

6"X6" oil on wood panel.
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A funky little dive with one of the best burgers I've ever had, I"m going to have o stop there again.

"HOTEL BEVERLY"

6"X6" oil on wood panel



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One of many stops across this country of ours.

"CINNAMON & MARBLES"

6"X6" oil on wood panel (sold)



Saw this candy apple at an outside farmers market, purchased the apple, set-up this little still life, took one shot then dove into the best spicy candy apple I have ever had.

"THE ROAD TO FUN"

6"X6" oil on wood panel $95
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I was on my way to Kansas City when to my right I see this off on this little road just outside a small town. It was a late afternoon so off I go to have fun after a long, long ride.

"HARVEST TIME"

6"X6" oil on wood panel


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A trip to Paso Robles and some good wines.

"SHARP CURVES"

6"X6" oil on wood panel $95
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This is a fantastic ride up hwy95 to Lake havasu. I used to make this run at night and turn my lights off and drive it by the moonlight.

"SUNDOWN"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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Coming out of Utah on my way to Colorado on 70 and this vista opens up. What a fantastic drive. Several more hours and I'm in the town called "Fruta" in Colorado and at that point I've just stepped back to 1950.

"DAYDREAMS"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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I was at an art show when a stranger walked up to me and handed me a photo that they had taken. I looked at it as they turned and walked away. This is from that photo and I have no idea of where this is from.

"PARTY TIME"

"6X6" oil on wood panel

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"FOOT PRINTS"

6"X6" oil on wood panel

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My first winter in Kansas and a walk in the woods.

"LAGUNA BEACH"

6"X6" oil on wood panel
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A view from my balcony