The impossible violet

This is from yesterdays 5hr alla prima session.  16"x20", oil on canvas.   Learnin learnin. 

she's french

36"x12"
5 hr painting done while listening to french music. Pretty cool...
and i simplified her right knee area since this was taken.

san antonio mission retreat and paintings

j.j., 20"x16", oil on canvas

 julie, 20"x16", oil on canvas

San Antonio Mission, 10"x10", oil on panel

 Walters' Home, 5"x7", oil on panel

Roses, 7"x11", oil on panel

piece begun today, 30"x15", oil on canvas

This past weekend California Art Club provided the opportunity to visit the San Antonio Mission de Padua to paint with a fellow 50 other painters.  Needless to say it was a remarkable experience as we all gathered up in a remote location to paint and enjoy each others company.  Some paintings are from the retreat and the Walters' beautiful home who invited the painters to their splendid home.  The portraits i painted monday and the back study i began today, the last painting to the 'black and white' series currently hanging at Studio Arts.

http://studioarts.tv/
http://www.californiaartclub.org/
http://missionsanantonio.net/

The following image has been provided by California Art Club.

milk and chocolate

 3 hr paint in sean cheethams class @ LAAFA, 16"x20"
http://seancheetham.blogspot.com/
http://www.laafa.org/

 20 min or something study of Joe in water color in Glenn Vilppus' class @ Animation Guild, 10"x7"
http://vilppuacademy.com/
http://animationguild.org/

real quick watercolor studies for what will become larger oil paintings. 10"x7"

scottsdale artist school week , AZ

 16"x12", 3 hr pose, uninstructed workshop

 16"x20", 4 day pose in J.Todorovitchs' workshop.  Really incredible painter, real great fun.
http://www.onejoseph.com/joseph/home.html

16"x20", 5 hr uninstructed workshop

Thank you Scottsdale Artist School for such an incredible experience. 
http://www.scottsdaleartschool.org/

recent paintings

'portrait of a young model', oil on canvas, 16"x20", 3 hr alla prima portrait

 'vertical', oil on canvas, 12"x36", in progress

 'inward' oil on canvas, 5"x7"

 

'to swim', oil on canvas, 12"x16"  Done @CopeStudios

 'yellow rose', oil on canvas, 8"x10"

'magnolia', oil on canvas, 9"x12"

... it's a growing process.

3 min sketches