This was a stellar place to be on this beautiful Summer day in Portland, OR. There are not very many views of the city of Portland that are this amazing, and I could return to paint this again and again. Weather would make this interesting...
I painted this during the 2017 Washington County Plein Air Paint Out. It was a beautiful day as I spied a southern view from Baseline Road, with the fallow autumn field, surrounding treeline, and the soft hues of the Chehelam Mountains rising beyond. It's always...
As I write this, we are in the grip of an Oregon Winter. The days are short, with the sun rising at 7 AM and setting at 4 PM. The long days of Summer are a distant memory, and yet, as I study this painting...
Most of us feel that baby animals are cute, but I think baby trees are just as endearing. The way that they put out their leaves so bravely they seem to me like such harbingers of hope for the future. What is a more intoxicating...
I have to say that with these paintings I've done on Kauai, I'm loving my pthalo green paint for maybe the first time in my life. Pthalocyanin green and blue are modern oil paint colors in which the green or blue is made from a...
This is the famous "Bali Hai" view (this location was used in the movie South Pacific) seen from a small cove below Princeville Ranch. The color of the water is really that color turquoise when the sun comes out. The intensity of the colors can...
I painted this painting of the new bridge after I painted the previous painting of the Sellwood Bridges, which was during construction and while both bridges were still visible. Now you can see that the old bridge structure is gone. I like the design of...
The Willamette River runs North and South through the middle of Portland providing a waterfront playground for the city. The two sides of Portland are connected by a network of bridges, some historic, some just older and in need of TLC or replacement. All of...