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Portland Open Studio!!!
Woo-hoo! I love this!!! It’s like a city-wide art gallery!
Studios are open October 11-12, 18-19 10am-4pm.
#portlandoregon
#artgallery
#portlandopenstudios
portlandopenstudios.com/2025/tour.html

Painting of a desert sunset

Another offering in my 5“ x 5“ (127x127mm) personal painting challenge. There’s nothing like a desert sunset; this is from a trip to Terlingua, Texas (Big Bend).

#desertart
#sunset
#coucherdesoleil
#atardecer
#BigBendNationalPark
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo

Small oil, painting of ornamental grass and a lawn chair shining in the afternoon sun. With Trees in the distance.

Another 5” x 5” personal painting challenge.

A mini landscape.
In the REAL view, I loved the afternoon sun shining on the ornamental grass and the arm of the lawn chair.
#paintingchallenge
#painting
#pintura
#peinture
#lawnchair
#ornamentalgrass

My continuing series of 5“ x 5“ (12.7cm x 12.7cm) paintings.

Here’s a sunny little palm tree.

#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#arbres
#Árboles
#Landscape
#paysage
#paisaje
#landscapepainting

I’ve got all these old 5” x 5”panels. So I have “pledged“ to myself to use them. Here is #2. (Notice that I didn’t say how many I was doing? Hmmm.) Mid-century modern lamp in my studio.
#oilonpanel
#orange
#green

Here’s a throwback from 2019. I call him “Blue Man Gazing“. (And as a joke Papi Smurf!) I really enjoyed tying hair highlights into the painting and trying to get the form of the shoulders to show through the jacket.
20“ x 16“
Acrylic on canvas
#tbt
#portrait
#retrato
#green
#red

A small landscape showing Mount Hood from Hood River, OR. I’m trying to force myself to work quicker and simplify.

5” x 5” (127mm x 127mm)
Oil on panel

#Landscape
#paysage
#paisaje
#landscapepainting
#cascademountains

A larger version of the Fields Park Water Tower. The same color palette, although I played around more with temperature.
24” x 20” (61cm x 51cm)
#thefieldspark
#pearldistrict
#portland
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#architectureartwork
#architecturallandscape

“Trombone Man” is from a few years ago.
5” x 5” (13cm x 13cm)
Acrylic on cradled panel.

#trombone #blue #jazzpainting
#tbt
#musicpainting
#acrylicpainting
#brightcolors
#couleursvives
#coloresvivos

Are these your paintings? Regardless, they’re beautiful. And your poetry describing them is wonderful.

#architectureartwork
#architecturallandscape
#Astypalea
#greece
#turquoise

The sarcastic title of this is “Because the World Needs Another Painting of a Greek Church.” Ha!!

Regardless of the world’s needs, I love when friends travel and let me paint their memories.

12” x 9” (30.5 x23cm)
Oil on canvas

#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting

Here’s the final of a little study of a #watertower near the #FieldsPark in #Portland, Oregon.
10”x8” (250mm x 205mm)

#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#architectureartwork
#architecturallandscape
#orange
#blue

Thanks. It’s a work in process andI’m wanting to pop up the chroma a bit.

It has been years since I’ve done an architectural landscape painting. I’m so excited to get back it.

#WIP
#thefieldspark
#pearldistrict
#portland
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#architectureartwork
#architecturallandscape

Final version. (Most likely 😊)
Oil on canvas
12” x 9”

#Trees
#arbres
#Árboles
#color
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#Landscape
#paysage
#paisaje
#landscapepainting

Here is a work in progress. I’m trying to make a vibrant, fun little tree. Attempting bold colors and brushstrokes.
12” x 9”

#WIP
#Trees
#arbres
#Árboles
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#Landscape
#paysage
#paisaje
#landscapepainting

Summer fields in the Willamette Valley with the Oregon Coast Range in the distance.

#oregoncoastrange
#willamettevalley
#wheatfields
#Sky
#Clouds
#mountains
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo
#figurativepainting
#Landscape
#landscapepainting

#figurativepainting
#Landscape

Another cloud painting…with some mountains encroaching (😃). This shot is from the central Washington Cascades near #leavenworthwa. Beautiful territory!
12”x9” (30.5cm x 23cm)
Oil on canvas

#Trees
#Sky
#Clouds
#mountains
#cascademountains
#wenatchee
#Oilpainting
#peinturesalhuile
#pinturaaoleo

Here is the final. I did some work on the trees. I don’t think you can see it from the full painting, so I provided some close-ups.
Oil on canvas
9”x12” (23cm x 30.5cm)

#Trees
#Sky
#Clouds
#Stormyclouds
#Landscape
#Oilpainting
#Figurativepainting
#nuages
#ciel
#peinturesalhuile
#arboles

I added a few silhouetted trees in the foreground. Trying to keep the trees subtle and NOT cheesy…..
#dramaticsky
#cloudyday
#landscape
#painting
#oilpainting

Cloud painting. WIP. (I need to get the foreground in.)
9”x12”
#clouds
#cloudpainting
#wip
#oilpainting

A Bargue sketch with some invented and not realistic shading. But it was fun.
#Bargue
#figuredrawing
#graphitesketch
#dailydrawing

Third Bargue sketch
#timedsketch
#barguedrawing
#graphitepencils
#dibujos
#esquisse

And more Bargue sketches
#timedsketch
#barguedrawing
#graphitepencils
#dibujos
#esquisse

More Bargue sketches

More 7-minute poses. #figuredrawing
#shortpose
#sketching

I took my first figure drawing class today! Never worked with a live model and was nervous going in. It was so professional, artistically stimulating, & mentally exhausting. Here are a few 7-minute drawings that turned out OK.
#LifeDrawing #FigureDrawing #ShortPoseDrawing

I enjoy seeing the source image, it is so interesting to see how you interpret it for your artistic purposes. Thank you.