3 Eggs (sold)

3 Eggs, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Sketchbook Sunday

Click the images to see a larger scan...


Mostly lunch sketching.



From a music event at the Triple Door. Great venue, but very dark...

Sketchbook Saturday

Lunch sketching on the left hand page, then a little road sketch while waiting for the tow truck to get my dead Jeep.


Sketching on the bus home from dropping off my busted car.
The lady sleeping was great-- she'd shift from one position to the next, and then right back again.
Drawing on the bus is catch as catch can-- very shaky.


Seattle light rail sketching. Much smoother than the bus.


Mostly lunch sketching, although if you look at the top right vignette, you'll note that the chairs are different. That scene is from a Caffé Vita on Capitol Hill here in Seattle.

Church Roof (sold)

Church Roof, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

View from the studio...

Watermelon Slices

Watermelon Slices, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009

$100 USD

e-mail me for purchase information
(please mention title of painting in mail)

Watermelon Slice (sold)

Watermelon Slice, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Half a Pink Lady (sold)

Half a Pink Lady, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Mirror Ball Ornament (sold)

Mirror Ball Ornament, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Sketchbook Sunday

More jury duty pages...





I was able to go back the the Seattle Art Museum, just up the street from the King County Superior Court building.

I saw the Wyeth exhibit, and Art Under Attack. Wyeth was nice, but a small show. Art Under Attack showed artworks of which ~90% were complete dross (in my opinion). I'm not a purist by any stretch of the imagination-- I like a broad selection of modern contemporary conceptual art--- but really, most of this work was insufferably full of itself.

Sketchbook Saturday

I had jury duty this week. Lots of hurry up and wait.
Click the pic to see a larger image...

Heirloom Tomato #3 (sold)

Heirloom Tomato #3, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Larsen Lake Trees

Larsen Lake Trees, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009

$100 USD

e-mail me for purchase information
(please mention title of painting in mail)

This is a blueberry farm on the Eastside in Bellevue-- on my way home from work.

Tomato, Garlic, and Basil (sold)

Tomato, Garlic, and Basil, oil on linen, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Mt Baker Ridge Viewpoint (sold)

Mt Baker Ridge Viewpoint, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Fabulous little spot I stumbled on when the Blue Angels were in town.

Bowl of Strawberries (sold)

Bowl of Strawberries, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Sketchbook Sunday

Continuing sketchbook stuff...

A statue of a 2nd century Aphrodite, and some sketches on Seattle's fabulous new light rail.
The empty rectangles are my predrawn spaces for doing painting thumbnail sketches.


Lunch sketches


At Entai Beach Park in Bellevue, during an uncharacteristically hot day.


More lunch sketching at work...

Sketchbook Saturday

I thought that as a change of pace, I'd devote weekend posts to sketching and drawing...
Click on the thumbnail image to see a larger picture.
I use a moleskine sketchbook that I have wrapped in a pencil carrier. The two fit like they were made for each other:



The moleskines aren't the greatest sketchbooks in the world (don't get me wrong, they're good or I wouldn't use them), but there's something about them; the heft, the solidity, style, that feels like it 'fits'. So that's what I use.


Drawing during an Ol' Time Social live music session at the Conor Byrne, here in Seattle.


The sleeping beauty is my girl, Mary Jo. In the lower left of the page you can see a thumbnail sketch for one of the Montana road trip paintings, Lookout Pass.


I have a tendency to start in the middle of the page and work out to the edges. Sometimes that leaves a lot of awkward space. The gas pump on the right page was a personal challenge to see how much I could get drawn while filling up at the station.


Left page is from the cafeteria at work, while the right is a medley while waiting for a haircut.

Shrimp #2

Shrimp #2, oil on masonite, 5" X 5", 2009

$100 USD

e-mail me for purchase information
(please mention title of painting in mail)

Remnant of a dinner at the Crab Pot down on the waterfront.

Figs #2 (sold)

Figs #2, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

I'm a huge fan of Julian Merrow-Smith, and every now and again you have to try to get into the skin of your inspiration. Julian paints the most amazing figs I've seen...
#1
#2

This is a second painting of the batch of figs I bought down at the Pike Place Market. The whole basket ended up stuffed with bacon, goat cheese, and herbs from the garden, prepared to a recipe by Jerry Traunfield.

Onion in a Box (sold)

Onion in a Box, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Piggy Bank (sold)

Piggy Bank, oil on masonite, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Clouds #4 (private collection)

Clouds #4, oil on canvas, 4" X 6", 2009
(private collection)

View out the studio window...

Crab Claw (sold)

Crab Claw, oil on canvas, 4" X 4", 2009
sold

A tiny, tiny crab claw found on an Oregon beach...

3 Figs (sold)

3 Figs, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Cream Pitcher

Cream Pitcher, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009

$100 USD

e-mail me for purchase information
(please mention title of painting in mail)

Red Onion (sold)

Red Onion, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold


Here's a peek at what my set up for a painting like this looks like:

Missoula Church (sold)

Missoula Curch, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009
sold

Last picture from the Montana road trip. We stayed in Missoula on our way back from Choteau, and this church was easily painted from the parking lot of a comfortable coffee place next to our motel. Quite a change from quiet rural backroads...

Couple of self portraits

Me in the Sweltering Heat, oil on canvas, 5" X 7", 2009

Every now and again I hack out a self portrait.

I'm the easiest/closest model to get, and while I haven't done as much figurative work as of late as I used to, I do like to keep my hand in it...


Night Sketch, oil on canvas, 4" X 4", 2009

Seattle Show Alert...

I have work up through August at the Cafe Ladro in Fremont:
452 N 36th St
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 675-0854

Eureka Reservoir (sold)

Eureka Reservoir, oil on canvas, 20" X 10", 2009

sold


I got most of this on canvas before the proverbial hit the fan. It was cold and windy.

The thunderclouds in the painting above had siblings that were right above me.
This pic is the scene immediately behind me: