3-6-18

6.5x4.5

This time I painted on a smooth paper

3-5-18

4x4 inches

This is pretty much the same section of the view from the kitchen that I painted yesterday.  This was from a photo that I took yesterday at about 4 PM.  I really struggle with the willow trees.  I was about to toss this one then got my gouache paints out and made some improvement.  I might try the same view again tomorrow.

3-4-18

6x4 inches

I painted this at about 9 this morning from the kitchen window.   Another gorgeous day.

March 3 2018

4x6 inches

  Beach trees again.  I parked on the driveway to the tanks and painted these in the distance with Excursion Ridge behind them, about 12:30.  It was 8 degrees this morning, but I was so warm in the car this afternoon sitting in the sun that I had to open the window.

3-2-18

6x3.5 inches

My view from the kitchen window about 5.  A month ago it was getting dark by this time. 

3-1-18

6x6 inches

This is another attempt to capture the sunset from Sunday evening

2-28-18

4x6 inches

Lots of snow and wind today.

2-27-18

From my studio window about 9 AM,   A bit of blue sky between snow flurries.

2-26-18

I tried to improve on the sunset from last night with a photo I took, but it was not a success.  This is a small section of the 6x9 painting.

Sunday 2-25-18

4x6 inches

From the boat harbor about 4:30 as the sun was setting north of Lemesier Island... the days are getting longer.

2-24-18

Today, an alder tree in our yard painted from the living room as it snowed.  I used masking fluid with a small brush and splattered gouache for the snow.

February 23, 2018

4x6  inches

Back to the beach about four this afternoon and painted from the car.  Cold north wind.  Beautiful day.

In the Woods

6x4 inches

I spent much of today working on a couple of oil paintings, and hardly got out of the house.  It probably looked much like this in the woods between our house and the main road, painted from a photo I took earlier this month.

View from Aimee's Kitchen

4x6 incches

 I painted this while having coffee with my neighbor Aimee this morning.

Its on some kind of printing paper that sucks.... literally.  It has little sizing, I guess, and the pigment sits on the surface as the water is absorbed and there isn't much way to get any gradation.  We had some sunshine today, but probably snow tonight.

From the Dock Island Again

4 x 6 inches

 I painted from my car again from the dock island looking towards the mouth of the Salmon River. The tide came in and covered part of the sandbar (the strip in the water) as I painted.  Not much color today.  I was about to start another painting and then it started snowing.  I added the snow after I got home with gouache.

From the Upstairs Window

watercolor 5.5x4 inches

I painted this from my upstairs window looking down at the path and oil shed.   I think its the first time I've ever painted from up here.

 

One More Time

I went through my 100's of little paintings yesterday, mostly from around 2006 and so much enjoyed looking at them.  I t was surprised by the changes in the landscape in the last decade and it was interesting to see all the ways I've tried to paint the same places over the years.  I'm so glad I have them... they bring back many wonderful memories.

Well,  I decided to try to do one everyday again and post here.  I'm having a feeling of deja vu, as I've been here before, resolving to paint something everyday and not following through.  Its been especially hard the last few years since I've started doing mostly oils.  Whatever, I'm starting again one more time.

I drove down to the beach and painted this from the car looking east from the dock island.  It's small, about 3x3 inches done in a little handmade book.   Its almost 4 PM now and I haven't done anything yet today.... better get with it if I'm going to.

Ernest Gruening Cabin Residency

I spent the first two weeks of August as the Artist in Residence at the Ernest Gruening Cabin north of Juneau.  My goal was to start doing larger oil paintings and I did begin 2 larger pieces one of which you can see on my other blog.  I was a very inspiring and productive two weeks.  I also painted or started several some smaller oils  and these little watercolors in an  5x7 accordion book.

 

A view from the cabin

 

inside the cabin looking out

Mount Ernest Gruening as seen from the shore of the Salt Chuck,

The outhouse as seen from the bathroom window,

 

one of several spectacular sunsets seen from the cabin,

 

Rocks above the beach,

 

and another view from the cabin

En Provence

It seems do very few little watercolors anymore except when I travel.   These are some I did n a little travel journal I made on a trip to Provence last month.  I attended an oil painting workshop taught by   Carol Marine with my friend and neighbor, Aimee, and another week in Aix with Aimee and other friend, Carolyn. You can read more about the trip on my other blog. 

They are all double pages in an accordian book and about 7x6 inches. 

View from my room at Chateauneuf de Gadagne where the workshop was held.

View from the terrace of Chateauneuf de Gadagne

From the balcony of apartment in Aix in Provence that we stayed in for a week after the workshop.

I painted an oil pointing from this later.  It is at the asylum where Van Gogh painted before his death.

 

This was also at the Van Gogh asylum

Mont Sainte Victoire from Painter's Park near Aix, where Cezanne painted many paintings from.

It took me until now  (10 scans done) to see that there is a smudge on my scanner.  Darn it.   

Fireweed from Summer

 

So little outdoor time with my watercolors this past summer.... I more often took my oil paints, though more times than not, what I painted got scraped off.   The fireweed were amazing this summer and this is one of several paintings I did of them.  An oil painting, done on the same day is on my other blog, here. 
 
A writer friend, Fran Kelso has written an post about me on her blog.
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