Seascape Beach Resort Wedding Bluff #3

This is my third painting of the Wedding Bluff. I enjoyed spattering the tree.

Seascape Beach Resort Wedding Bluff #2

I painted with my friends yesterday!! It's so much fun to paint with buddies who love the same things. This painting is the second in what will be a series of paintings of this location. The original and prints will find new homes soon, I hope.

Cabin View in the Sierra Foothills

This weekend we had a great time with family and friends. One of my friends, Beth, painted with me for a day while we sat on the deck at the family log cabin in Nevada City, California. Since we recently had many of the trees cleared, we now have a wonderful vista view, and I have a renewed inspiration to paint, paint, paint. Looking at the beauty of the woods reminded of the bible verses in Isaiah 55:12-13. They say," You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands...This will be for the Lord's renown..." And I say, "Let it be Lord! Let it be!"

Filoli Garden House Tree with Tulips

Here's a different kind of painting for me. I saw this tree in a beautiful little garden house at Filoli in Woodside, CA. It captured my imagination and I just had to paint it. In front of the other window in this house was a very large birdcage with two doves in it (a subject for a matching painting to come.) Last year I thought I'd enter them both into a juried art show at Filoli. I planned early and started it well ahead of time. However, it turned out that they changed the subject of the art show to botanical flower paintings! Mine is more fanciful and not as realistic as they may want for a botanical painting, but I may just enter it anyway. What do you think?

From A to Z: Stanford University's Palm Drive

I painted this from a photo of Stanford's Palm Drive. I can't make prints, but the original painting is still for sale.

From A to Z: Seascape Beach Resort Wedding Bluff -Trees Solarized

I was having fun with this paint feature on photoshop called "solarize." I like the effect it had on the trees that are to the left in the original painting.

From A to Z: Owls in the Blossoms

A favorite of mine. I painted it twice.

From A to Z: Japan's Mountains

A class study.