More fun art for the patio

Alan and I made a cool spider out of these aluminum balls we got at the junk yard. You can never have too much stuff hanging on your patio!

More Cactus Paintings

I have some more plein air paintings to post. These all ended up with saguaro cactus as the main subject. They are such amazing plants that ignoring them is pretty much impossible! So here are some of the latest. I keep threatening to paint a different time of day, since these are all morning light. It is easier to jump up and go out first thing, before the rest of the day's activities can distract you though.

New Paintings

I have been working on some 24x30 acrylics out on the patio. One is a little aspen scene from a photo I took last year. I enjoyed keeping loose on this one. It is hanging at a 2 person show we just put up last week. There are about 40 paintings up between me and my pal Laura Cohen Hogan. It will hang for 3 months. The other painting is of an old turquoise truck I spotted under a big tree. It was a Granite Creek Winery up in Chino Valley here in Arizona. I didn't want to get too tight with it, but just share the scene.

Paint Out Photo

This photo from the Farm at South Mountain was posted by the Oil Painters of America that sponsored the day. I am right in the middle looking sort of festive in my hat...I have never been a hat person but have become one for my outdoor painting times. This event had about 75 painters! What fun!

Figure Paintings

Today was a great morning working from the model. I am continuing to explore ideas using lots of texture before I start the image, laying, adding and removing paint, and throwing in some unusual tools to apply the paint. I am posting 2 images from today and 2 from last week. I work on both paintings at once, waiting for one to dry a bit, or for me to slow down in my layering. It is fun to see where the work takes me..These are all acrylic on gessoed paper. I am having a lot of fun with these.

More Paintings

I haven't posted some of the most recent small paintings so here you  go...They are all oils 9x12 or smaller...

Painting Rainy Arizona

We have been in a weather pattern lately that has been great for our thirsty desert. The storms have seemed to hit on my plein air painting Mondays over and over though. That makes for quite a challenge for sun lovers, especially when it is cold too. Here is what got painted out in the stormy desert. It was a very different color palette than usual. I loved the streak of light that showed up briefly...had to work fast to catch it.