still fall in my kitchen

Maybe one of these days I'll move into a new season but I can't stop playing with images from the workshop and Wendy's farm. I might be in trouble pretty quick here as I have a very small apartment... Also note this is a pretty awful photograph, For real the colors are much more brilliant and the image sharper than it shows here. I'm having trouble photographing these inside. I think it's the light in the room and/or the flash when I use it, Maybe one of these nice days I'll cart them out to the fire escape and shoot them all again... But, for now, you get the idea,

Fall, on fire

Getting a little crazy with the oils. Maybe I'll settle down or break through or something soon but, for now, I can't stop playing. I'm painting indoors (maybe it's the fumes?) but I am working- at least initially -from thumbnails of photos I took at the McMinnville workshop. The photos don't show it very well but also playing with drawing on top of the paint after I've exhausted my enthusiasm for putting paint of the canvas. Oils are great fun but they might make it possible for me to play too much, (Not sure if that's a good thing or not), Also, flash is washing out the colors which are a lot more vibrant for real than here.

Plein air painting workshop in McMinnville

Had a really great time at Dee Boyles' plein air painting workshop in McMinnville last weekend, Switched to oils for an experiment and may never switch back! Right now I've got 10 masonite boards all over my kitchen floor that I'm preparing for painting (photo to come) but here's a taste of what I got out of the workshop. I'm having trouble photographing the art work so that it stays true color-wise but this is fairly close.