TBT: “Black Oyster Catcher”
TBT “Black Oystercatcher” a 12×24″ oil from 2007. Private collection. I took lots of photos of this oystercatcher moving around on the rocks near Trinidad State Beach and than had fun painting both the bird and the water
TBT- “A Grand Morning”
TBT- On Thursday mornings I’ll be giving you a look at art I’ve created over the past twenty years. Today…”A Grand Morning” oil from 2007. A different part of the Grand Tetons in the fall. It’s currently hanging on the wall in our dining area.
Watercolors From My Latest Trip To Mongolia, Part 2. And Horses!
I go to Ikh Nartiin Chuluu (Ikh Nart, for short) Nature Reserve on every trip to Mongolia. It’s where I went on my very first one in April of 2005 to participate in an Earthwatch Institute-sponsored expedition to assist in research that has been carried out there since […]
My Blog Is Now My “Journal”. Watercolors From My Latest Trip To Mongolia, Part 1
I returned on July 31 from my twelfth trip to Mongolia since 2005. I traveled to a number of places, starting with Arburd Sands ger camp in Bayan-Onjuul Soum, Tov Aimag, about two hours south-west of Ulaanbaatar. The area features a 20km stretch of dunes running east-west, the […]
In the Field: I Go To A Plein Air Workshop With Paul Kratter; But First, A Stop At The San Francisco Zoo
Paul gets the workshop under way with a demo at Carmel River State Beach. I headed down the road April 21 for a plein air workshop with an artist I’ve admired for some time, Paul Kratter. I’ve always been sorry that I missed having him as an instructor […]
The Times They Are A Changin’…
On December 10, 2007 I published the first post on my new blog. Since then, except when I’ve been traveling, and sometimes even then, I’ve posted once a week and, for a year or two, twice a week. In the last few years, however, the way people get […]
In The Studio: Holiday Art Sale!
I’ll be offering a nice selection of small oil paintings, watercolors and drawings at my Sequoia Park Zoo “Art and Conservation in the Land of Blue Skies” lecture next Wednesday, December 13. Here’s a preview, but all are available right now. Please contact me through my website Contact […]
The Art Life: You’re Invited To My Lecture On “Art and Conservation in the Land of Blue Skies”!
I’ll be bringing original paintings, drawings, location watercolors and some of my Mongolia journals, too.
The Art Life: Big Island Sketchbook
We got back last Monday night from our two week vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii. While I wanted to kick back and relax I also wanted to make art, specifically to do at least one sketch a day, and I came pretty close. I took a […]
The Art Life: Salmagundi Club Juried Exhibition Acceptance!
I entered my first juried competition in 1991, an Artist’s Magazine contest for wildlife/animal art. I got an Honorable Mention for a colored pen and ink drawing of a wild boar I’d photographed somewhere. Woohoo! I was out of art school, but had not started to paint in […]
