Oregon Hilltop

Here is a 12x16 thick oil from a scene taken from a high hilltop along the Oregon coast. It's very abstract and perhaps could use a little more work on the shapes but I'm revising my old work and liked the scene.

Two more new landscapes

Going over some old ideas again with more paint. One is a very abstract "Red House", a view from Phinney Ridge in Seattle toward the Western Olympic mountains with Ballard neighborhood in between. The other work is an Oregon Coast scene with some of the haystack rocks in the water. This one is not as successful but still better than the prior version.
These are 16x20.

Another Oregon Coast Scene

I'm continuing to renew my Oregon coast scenes with palette knife versions. Here's a fairly abstract evening at the beach.

Golden Gardens Sunset

Here's an 18x24 oil of Golden Gardens beach in Seattle on a bright evening. Seattle has the greatest sunsets because of our clouds and long summer nights.

Astoria Road Landscape

Here's a colorful landscape from a photo taken on the highway toward Astoria, Oregon. It's fairly large at 22 x 28". Getting into a good work routine of several hours of art activity daily. Also almost through sorting and saving my art magazine articles. Only about 25 to go and I'm caught up.

Oregon Coast Landscape

Continuing to work on landscapes in palette knife technique. This one needs a few final touchups but too wet to work on it any more tonight.

New landscape

Have spent the past month on some other projects, including going through 16 years of art magazines to save only the articles I want. Have them in folders to use finally. Also did a custom mirror project, a left over from my art fair.

Now back to my palette knife painting from some of my old references. This is a 16x20 oil from a photo I took from a ferry boat in the San Juan Islands. It's a facade of trees and a little of the water.

Also set my 2010 goals which include much more art reading to keep me motivated. Spent 2009 not pushing as hard on the art as was waiting for my part-time job to end but now it's permanent so need to use my evenings and 4 day weekends to crank up the work again. Always have way more ideas than time so no problem keeping busy.

Next weekend go through my old issues of Art Calendar to pull out articles I want to save. Part of my year end clean up to enter the new decade lean and mean in my studio.