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Plein air (or at least "plein car") from the schoo

Plein air (or at least "plein car") from the school parking lot today. I set my timer for 45 minutes and wound up doing the whole painting with my battered drawing brush, since I didn't want to take the time to change brushes once I started.

Oil, 8x6, fir trunks, vine maple, and other random trees 😂

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On the easel today: Spade Lake in the Alpine Lakes

On the easel today: Spade Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Oil, 11x14.

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Plein air today! I took my kit out to North Creek

Plein air today! I took my kit out to North Creek Park in Bothell to make an attempt at these pinkish-purplish bushes that grow in the huge bowl of green. 8x10, oil.

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Edmonds Marsh, 8x10 oil on Arches Huile paper, whi

Edmonds Marsh, 8x10 oil on Arches Huile paper, which I rarely use. It's pretty thirsty, and I find that I need to use some walnut-alkyd medium to get coverage, though I love the texture and the fact that it takes oil paint without priming.
This time, I taped a big sheet to a drawing board and marked out an 8x10 rectangle with a pencil. If I ever want to frame it, I'll have to cut it out and mount it to a panel.

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First oil study for this one after a couple of gou

First oil study for this one after a couple of gouaches. I think ultimately, I will need to go bigger to make sense of the log jam in the middle distance. I really like the light/shadow balance, though.

9x12 oil on canvas panel

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#cascademountains
#pacificnorthwestart
#landscapepainting
#landscapeart

A nice day to be aboard the Kayana in Salisbury So

A nice day to be aboard the Kayana in Salisbury Sound! I admit, I may have improved the weather a bit from last year's reference photos, but that's the painter's prerogative, right?

11x14 oil on canvas.

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Devil's Washbasin in the Goat Rocks, looking north

Devil's Washbasin in the Goat Rocks, looking north toward Mt. Rainier. 8x16 oil on linen.

When I went to pick a panel, I was planning to paint this as a 12x12 square, but I didn't have any! Instead, here's a long horizontal, which worked out pretty well. I did take some liberty with the shape of the lake, which is circular in reality, but the view of Rainier is 100% real, looking across 50 miles of wilderness.

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Four miniatures today, featuring the unbelievable

Four miniatures today, featuring the unbelievable Gothic facade of Orvieto's Cathedral as well as the landscape at sunset, all in gouache and a little less than 4"x5" each.

First, one of the cathedral's decorative spires and part of the roofline.

Second, my favorite, shows the winged Ox (representing Luke's Gospel) on the cathedral facade, as well as the intricate mosaic bands that decorate every pillar. These were installed around 1325!

Third is another attempt at the sunset light effect on the other side of the valley, and forth is looking down the valley just after sunset.

#duomodiorvieto #orvieto #umbria #gouache #gouachepainting #pleinair #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #pleinairwashingtonartists

Rocca Albornoziana overlooking Orvieto Scalo and t

Rocca Albornoziana overlooking Orvieto Scalo and the river valley, 6x8 gouache. There's something vaguely Studio Ghibli about this composition--no doubt somebody magical lives in the ruined fortress!

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In the Medieval Quarter of Orvieto, looking down V

In the Medieval Quarter of Orvieto, looking down Via Della Cava, which curves steeply down to Porta Maggiore. 8x10 gouache.

I bit off a little more than I could chew with this one--a super complicated subject with tons of perspective lines and a ground plane that slopes crazily in all directions. But I'm pleased with the light effect, and it's definitely a candidate for a studio painting in oils, where I can take my time and, you know, use a RULER 😂.

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To Umbria! This was one of those moments where you

To Umbria! This was one of those moments where you see a magical light effect and you know you've got 15 minutes, tops, before it's gone. In this case, the setting sun was coming over the hill and hitting the wires in the vineyard and the edges of the trees, and I had to give it my best shot! 6x8 gouache

I was painting so quickly that I never got a photo of the scene, so the next two pictures are the sunset in the clouds afterward.

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Spring in Venice! This blossoming tree is in the c

Spring in Venice! This blossoming tree is in the center of Campo Santa Maria Nova, with Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli just across the canal (which you can't see from this angle). 8x6 gouache on Jackson's cold press watercolor paper.

#venizia #veniceitaly #pleinair #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #gouache #santamariadeimiracoli #pleinairwashingtonartists

Painted from the end of Calle Ridotto, facing San

Painted from the end of Calle Ridotto, facing San Giorgio Maggiore.

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5x7 plein air gouache of a clock tower on the isla

5x7 plein air gouache of a clock tower on the island of Murano. The tourists were out in force by the time we got to Murano, and I was asked for directions four times, told "Brava, Complimenti!" by several Italian nonnas strolling with their grandchildren, and only one guy offered to make his friend pose (hard for me to identify the language, possibly Romanian).

Honestly, I love the chitchat (aside from the offers to pose). It slows me down a little bit, but there is no better way to immerse myself in a location than to just stand there for an hour, let life flow around me, and talk to the people who are confident enough to approach. I especially love the children, of whom there were quite a few, including a 9yo girl from California, who is sad to be going home tomorrow.

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Beautiful Burano! I took the 8:40 AM ferry and bea

Beautiful Burano! I took the 8:40 AM ferry and beat the crowds to spend an hour and a half painting with just the island residents. Half a dozen elderly Burano residents stopped to chat in lengthy, involved Italian, including Guido, who looked just like Carl from the movie Up. He stopped three times, and then just started hanging out next to me while he chatted with all the other passing retirees.
Definitely one of the best mornings of my life, despite my terribly insufficient DuoLingo Italian.
Ciao, Guido!

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Renoir and Monet joy from the Orsay, with some Imp

Renoir and Monet joy from the Orsay, with some Impressionist brushwork close-ups for my painting friends.

The dome of the Cathédrale Saint-Louis in Versail

The dome of the Cathédrale Saint-Louis in Versailles, just outside Paris. 6x8, gouache. I painted this from the window of our AirBnB, using the pan gouache and watercolor setup I built for this trip, which works very well! I was painting too quickly to get a photo of the sky when the sun set beneath the clouds, but it was absolutely gorgeous!

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My favorites in Paris!

My favorites in Paris!

When your stuffed owl finds a 4000-year-old friend

When your stuffed owl finds a 4000-year-old friend

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