Oil Painting - "Resurrection Bay"

24" x 48"  Oil on canvas.  Available here.

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.  I know I am grateful to have this beautiful landscape to paint.

Oil Painting - "Sandspit Point"

11" x 14"  Oil on canvas.  Available here. 

If you have ever been on one of the boat tours that go out to the Kenai Fjord National Park you most likely went by this scene.  This painting is of a point of land on the east side of Fox Island and is a very interesting landmark in Resurrection bay.  This is a closeup view of the very end of the long sand bar that is referred to as the Fox Island Spit.    By the way..... thank you for viewing my blog.. :)  

Oil Painting - "Reflecting"

12" x 12" Oil on panel.  Available here. 

I don't believe my last blog post went out to all the emails.  I'm not sure why that happens but every now and then they just don't get delivered.  This is a painting of one of my sons that I painted this fall.   I took the photo in February while down in Mexico.   He was in an underground cave with water and the cave was lighted so there was a nice glow and sparkle in the water.   I'm really pleased with this painting.  Doing more paintings with people in them is high on my list.  

Oil Painting in Plein Air - "Street View"

8" x10"  Oil on canvas.  Available here.

Here is a small plein air painting I did about three or four weeks ago.  The fall colors were strong and the after noon sun was still pretty high.  Things are much more winter like now and the fall colors have past.   I am pretty happy with how these mountains turned out in this painting.    This week I have been busy painting in doors in my studio.  I have finished one large painting and started another.  

Oil Painting Portrait - "Pink Robe"

11" x 14"  Oil on linen panel.  

 This is the final portrait I painted in the workshop I took at the Scottsdale Artists' School last week.  The instructor was New York artist Max Ginsburg.   We all had a great week and I feel like I learned so much.  I am looking forward to more portraits.  This photo does not really do the justice.  There is glare due to wet paint and I used my iPhone 4 so the image quality is rather weak. Maybe I will post a better one sometime.