OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND

Those dates for the Open Studio Tour are 

coming up fast, and I hope to see a

lot of you over that weekend. That's always
the very best part!

Tucson Pastel Art Center

February 2 and 3

2447 N. Los Altos Ave

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM both days

Los Altos is one block west of 1st Ave. 

Here are a few of my recent works.

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Mini-Max Winter 2018 - Opening Reception

OPENING RECEPTION

"Agua Caliente"

"Windy Point Study"

I'm delighted to announce that the above paintings

have been juried in for the Sonoran Plein Air Painters

Mini-Max Winter 2018 show. These two are just

6" x 8" each - so they are part of the "Mini" half.

The opening reception is Sunday, December 9,

at Murphey Gallery, St. Phillips in the Hills, 

4440 N. Campbell, Tucson 85718,

from 12:15 to 2:30

The show will be up until January 11, 2019

Please call 520-465-6409 

I will be at the reception and hope to see you.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Don't Move!

"Black-tailed Jackrabbit"

8 x 6 inch palette knife painting on stretched

canvas, unframed.

Painting Progression - Prickly Pear

Yesterday I started a "Self-Study" workshop with Meredith Milstead. It meets 4 Sunday afternoons in May and I've chosen to work on my "unfinished plein air" pile of paintings which is getting rather large. I'm starting with the one I began a few days ago. The top photo is my subject at a plein air paint out with Tuscon Pastel Society at Tanque Verde Ranch. Next is the block-in, value study, done that morning and the bottom photo shows what I accomplished in class yesterday - still a lot to be done, obviously. I'd like to achieve more of a broken color effect on the prickly pear pads, but am not sure I can manage that. 

I'll be working from photos in class, though she prefers we work from life - thus my homework will be studying reflected light, and I'm tasked with painting something each day and sending her a photo - to prove I'm working! It's getting hot here in Tucson, and I'll be working from a still-life setup, so I bought 3 pretty Bartlett pears this morning.

Upcoming Show

I'm so pleased to announce that the above two oil paintings have just

been accepted into Toscana Gallery's upcoming show "Landscapes: 

Sunlight and Shadows." The opening will be 5:00 to 9:00 on

Saturday, April 16. 

Both these paintings were painted primarily en plein air, with a palette knife.

Top:  Pusch Ridge

Bottom: Santa Catalinas