STILL WAITING

16x20 oil. This is the last portrait with the usual group until September unfortunately. A more elaborate set-up than usual because we were to have it for 2 weeks. However, the snow and ice meant we had only one day and that was yesterday. I think I might work a little on shadows and perspective but basically this is it.

STRIPES 2

This is one of a series of 3 monotypes. It has been selected for the Fifth Annual CVG show. I am pleased because 137 artworks were chosen out of 800. This will be my first showing of a monotype.
I will also be in a Print show on Bainbridge Island, at The BAC Gallery with 6 monotypes that I produced last year.

DOUBLE BLUFF

This is a plein air oil 16x20 painting of Double Bluff on Whidbey Island, WA. I have since worked on top with oil pastel. It will be hanging in the Women Painter's of Washington show in the gallery in the Columbia Tower, Seattle, from February-May.

The 'Big' Snow

An oil pastel. My view out of the studio. Sort of.

JOHN

The first oil portrait of the year. Unfortunately we only have one more session because our fearless leader is going to goof off in the sunshine.  I'm just jealous. Actually I was away in sunny Madison for Christmas and New Year, so I missed some sessions and then we had 'the big snow' which brought the whole Seattle region to a halt.

Merrygoround

12x15 Oil pastel. A class assignment----to paint a moving Carousel or a Merrygoround. So there is a difference?
I am told that Carousel is American and goes around anti clockwise because people riding it use their right hands to grab the ring. Merrygoround is English and goes around clockwise, doesn't have a ring, and people in real life, get onto the horses from the horses left side. Hence the clockwise movement. I also read that a Carousel is actually a sport between Knights, centuries ago. And then there can be different animals and these days cars etc. and I am sure there is a lot more I have left out. and I am not sure this looks as if it is moving!

Hanna

Flat areas of pastel on dark background.

Baa Baa Black and The Boss

In December I am in a show called EIEIHOHOHO (really) So I thought it was time to have some fun.
These are Arapawa New Zealand sheep. The black faced sheep are Perendales, also NZ sheep. South Suffolk lamb UK, and then Highland cattle. 

Baatwo and Maaa

both 5x7 Gouache

McMoo

5x7 Gouache

End of the Day

9x12 Gouache

SILVER BIRCH

This is my solution to connect the top and bottom stripes of the monotype I posted a short while ago.

BLOEDEL RESERVE

12X16 Oil. Bloedel is now open for painters----hooray. This is a wonderful park on Bainbridge Island with a contemplative atmosphere and umpteen places to paint.
This painting and the one that follows, was painted using a Richard McKinley palette. red yellow blue, mixed to make secondary colors, mixed with white, when necessary, to make a dark, medium cool, medium warm, light cool and light warm. Both paintings were rather too dull and needed work in the studio. Particularly this painting. I see now that I need to soften the edge of the willow.

BATTLE POINT PARK, BI

20X16 oil.  Limited palette.

A BEND IN THE RIVER. OR

16X20 oil plein air. This is from Viento State park, where I camped in August. It was so windy that I could not set up my easel, but when Sylvia and I went back in October the wind was replaced by intermittent rain. It's a great site for painting, wind surfing and camping, if you like trains.

Gorge Whitehouse in September

16x20 oil plein air. When we went back to Hood River to pick up paintings from the show we went back to the Gorge Whitehouse where they made us very welcome. We couldn't resist four varieties of delicious  pears! It was a Sunday, and many people were picking flowers, buying pears and sampling wine.

MONOTYPE SERIES. NEXT 9 IMAGES.

9x12 Sky 1
Here I am using Dan Smith inks and experimenting with transparency. More like a watercolor, I wanted the paper to glow through. It's not working yet, but is an interesting process. If you double click on the image it is enlarged and looks better!

Mountain2

9x12 I think I printed a ghost on a ghost, of Mountain 1 but I can't remember. The fun of monotype to me, is that one thing leads to another and at the moment, since I am so new to the process, unless I keep notes, I am not sure how things happened. I guess I should take notes, but maybe later it will become more instinctual.

Mountain1

9x12 Mark making with roller and wipeout. This took 2 printings and I am annoyed with myself that the horizon needs correction.

Stripes3

I have landscape plans for this one because I need to connect one section with the other.

Stripes2

More roller and mark making.

Stripes 1

11x14 print using Charbonnel ink instead of Daniel Smith etching ink. At the moment, I find the inks behave differently from each other so I am learning by playing. I have to admit that I really was thinking Landscape but now I like them as stripes.

Marks2

9x12 monotpye. After finishing the painted trees I just played with rolling the ink randomly and then wiping out with a credit card.

Marks1

9x12 monotype. Playing with wipeout marks made with different tools.

Northwest Trees

9X12 NW trees. I rolled the colors on a plate and printed it. On the same plate, with a very small amount of ink left on the surface, I painted the trees with a brush and diluted ink. Ran that through the press. It needed more ink, so I worked on the trees and ran it through again. Now there was too much ink, and it spread out and was rather globby in parts. So now I had to live with that and try to work with the shapes to make them stronger.