SW Taylor from 9th Ave

Today's the last day of the workshop. Here I'm looking east down Taylor St. starting at eight o'clock.

SW Clay St. and the Park Blocks

Painted between 8:15 and 9 a.m.
Six by eight inches.

Sunny morning and the Morrison Bridge

Day three of the workshop and the sun came out!

Hawthorne Bridge

Today I biked into town early and did this little sketch before class. The board had another painting on it which I'd sanded down a bit, and it was mostly dark. I started with the dark shapes of the bridge and trees and then cut in the sky and water around them.

Little landscape on the way home

This is on Terwilliger. The road has some beautiful curves and today I had my little paintbox with me, coming back from the first day of the plein-air class downtown. It's six by eight.

Plein-air Painting Workshops

Here's Gay Pulley's painting from the last day of the Multnomah Village workshop. If you know the village you'll recognize the bento hut across the street from the Arts Center. Interesting challenge to paint bright yellow in shadow. In the light side we used cadmium yellow medium + cad orange + a little white. In the shadow side we started with yellow ochre, added cobalt blue and alizarin crimson, and then some cad yellow until it acquired the proper color identity.

Here are more photos from the July 6-9 class.

I have discovered a new landscape painting book, recently published, written by Mitch Albala (whose work is on display this month at Brian Marki Fine Art on NE Broadway--a good show with Scott Gellatly and another artist). Mitch teaches at the Gage Academy in Seattle. His book is excellent and I highly recommend it: Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice.

And here is a link to an album that includes some of my favorite landscape artists.

Windfalls

Every fall the apple trees drop fruit onto the ground. There's grass but it's not a proper lawn--there are bare patches and fallen leaves, and rotting apples with the fresh ones. In the shadows cast by the house and posts the raindrops are sparkly and blue and the wet leaves reflect the sky. I gather the windfalls into this old bucket (it came with the house) and dump them in the compost.





This painting is sold.