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Oil on board 6*6

With this painting I wanted to see how light I could go
and still have dark and light,
warm and cool, it was a bit tough.

Valentines Candy

Oil on Gesso Board 6*6

Well I have been meaning to paint this for a long time,

you can see all my brush marks on this one I think the sun hit it

sideways when I was taking the picture.

11*14 oil on board

I painted this last summer, I had painted a 8*10 then

I painted this one from it.

The grass was originally green but I changed it

to warm it up and compliment

the red barn.

Bright day

8*10 Oil on Board

I just wanted to experiment a little with this one I had been to a painter,

who loves colour and I thought that I would give it a go.

Neil Patterson is the name of the painter you can see

his work at his website

http://neilpatterson.com/works

My favourite Jam

6*6 oil on board

Painting Glass I realize now is pretty tough.

What colour is the glass, I had to just squint and trust what I saw.

Daily Painters Challenge

I'm back,
New year, New stuff.
This was a challenge as I am really rusty, so it was hard to get a little square done in ten minuets. I did go over 1 min or 30 seconds, but by the last painting, I was able to finish it under 10 Min's yahoo.

Stormy days hiding in the car.

8*10 oil board


5*7 oil on board
These top two were done when it was pretty stormy yesterday


8*10 oil on board
This was painted at the end of route 66 in K country.

Spring day

oil on board 8*10


oil on board 6*8

This is a place I found last year, it's way out near black diamond, I was determined to paint three paintings and I did. Now my goal is to paint three 6*8's in one hour. So that I can get the information down quickly. I painted under the shade of a tree then I turned round and painted another.
The Cloud Painting, I was just seeing if I could paint the cloud formation as a speed process as cloud forms change very quickly, in the end the paint was as thick as cream cheese, it was still fun to do.

In the deep woods

This is another elbow river painting it's near elbow falls but you have to walk a fair ways and wade through deep water to get to it.

Spring Runoff

Here is a painting that I did Tuesday, I had to walk a fair bit through a bunch of streams but that is the fun of getting to a place to paint. I was attacked by many bumble bees, for some reason I guess I was smelling sweet that day.

I managed to set everything up, get my values organized, little drawing and spent a few moments thinking what I wanted to achieve. the previous painting I had painted were too dark, so all through this painting I was saying dont do it, dont make that mountain that dark.
It sits ok in the distance and I like the flowing rushing water.