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  Black Kettle and Tea - This painting is being exhibited at The Conservatory for Classical Art's one year anniversary show. Click on the link to view the information about my next workshop Nov. 1-4, 2012.

www.classicalart.org

Landscape Workshop -
I will be teaching a three day landscape workshop at The Conservatory for Classical Art in Edmond Oklahoma February 3,4,5 2012. Link to the website for registration information or email me if you have any questions. www.classicalart.org

Fundraiser for the CCA -

This painting is offered in a raffle, where the funds raised, go to purchase easels and equipment for a new school in Edmond, OK The Conservatory for Classical Art. There are ten prizes and only thirty tickets to be sold. Search www.classicalart.org and go to the "more" tab to view the raffle section where you will see the other prizes offered and ticket purchase information. While your on the site, hit the "workshops" tab for the scheduled artists, so far, for 2012. Dan Robinson - Landscape Painting, Andrew Ameral - 2D Anatomy / Ecorche, Peggi Kroll-Roberts - The Costumed Model, Scott Waddell - Portrait Painting. The "Adult classes" and "Youth Classes" tabs will open the instruction offered by Leslie Lienau, the school's founder, for great instruction that meets weekly for anyone living in the Oklahoma City, Edmond and surrounding areas.

Miniature - Plum and Plate

Miniature - Plum and Plate -

SOLD - Summer's Circumstance -

Orange and Blue -

Phoenix Night -

Lemon Perch -

New Mexico

The Life of Night -

SOLD - Waiting -

SOLD - Black Kettle - A new piece, painted from a group of drawings done a couple of years ago.

On a Clear Winter Night - This limited palette nocturne, purely invented, gave me an allowance of freedom to explore options. Working with the idea of what a painting might need is often more enjoyable than competing to only capture reality.

Turnip - This piece was difficult to find but once established the subtle harmony was worth the search.

Sunset Fuse - In the desert southwest one of the most exciting times each day is it's last light. The normally harsh environment is transformed, a revealed softness, welcomed relief from another day's heat.

SOLD - Shadow's Bloom - The revealed pattern and featured distant hill, as the somewhat mundane light vacated the scene, was just as the bloom of another season. Something to behold.

SOLD
Light Cut Orange -

Color Workshop - Edmond, Oklahoma

Apple Texture - This was an exploration I did some time ago. I have recently framed it for a friend in Oklahoma who owns the piece now. After seeing it new again I am quite pleased with the textural applications.

Out of the Shadow - Such a simple thing again, all owing to the balance.

SOLD - Tea and Stripes - This piece was born from more of a color standpoint than anything else. Focusing on something in the process of painting and making it the priority allows for the other issues to be open and more malleable.

A Note of Spring - Searching within a subject and finding what is to be translated is a difficult part of the process. Once I leave the subject itself and see it through the issues of painting, then use those on my terms, all possibilities begin to open.

Curled In - The simplest of subjects, can often create huge obstacles to confront. Sometimes the simple is not so easy.

Summer Sky - This piece was done a while ago and when I saw it I began looking forward to the events to come in the summer season.

Late Shadows - The effect of light on these rocks at waters edge immediately became my subject for this piece.

Box and Slice - I have been working on and thinking about paint application and surface quality a lot. trying different mediums, whites and grounds.

Laguna Rocks - I painted this on a heavier gauge linen and really enjoyed the surface quality that it offered.

Box and Apples - This is an older piece that was a nice surprise to find in my files.

Passenger's of the Night - The scale in this painting was one of my priorities in it's planning. A combination of study from nature and my invented desire's allowed me to paint this piece.

Winter - A subtle and limited palette helped me achieve this winter grey.

SOLD - White Rose - This piece was a bigger fight than usual. I almost gave up on it several times. Sometimes the struggle pays off, sometimes it doesn't. I am glad I fought through it in the end.

SOLD - Medicine Bottle - I enjoyed the challenge that the brown glass medicine bottle presented to me in this piece.

My next class will focus on landscape painting, working both on location and a day in the studio working from one of our location studies.

Yellow and Blue - I had an immediate attraction for this and found painting it a pleasure.

Apple - Here I liked the shapes that both surrounded the apple and pointed you to it.

Green Slices - The close relationship of value, color and temperature in the slices as compared to the "white" cloth became the challenge to solve in this one.

I am offering a three day painting workshop this month February 26, 27, 28, in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, Sapulpa, to be exact. You can read some information about the class as well as some bio information about me on the workshop flyer. This class is limited to ten students which means there will be plenty of individual attention. Contact me if you have any questions or want to register your place or you can go to waterstreetartgallery.com to register as well.

At the Close - A dusk painting based on movement.

Evening Reflected - In this piece that is mostly an exercise in stretching all of the summer green that you see in a scene, the reflected sky was a great contrast to play off of.

Up Lit Apple - This is a recent commission that I was asked to do based on an earlier piece.

SOLD - Edmond Field - In this painting I was experimenting with a new medium, just exploring some of it's possibilities.

Pacific Nocturne - Working in the darker key of a night scene still allows for plenty of room for color and value manipulation to lead the eye.

Through the Night - This is a piece from about a year ago. I was reminded of it from last nights moon which has me thinking about another nocturne.

SOLD - What Lies Ahead - Sometimes the subject of the painting or the "idea" of the painting is purely about the paint. What can occur through the paint. Here my "reason" to paint was about movement.

Interchange - My subject is not always the actual forms that are painted but as in this case it is the action that is occurring. The exchange of the previous wave going out and the new one coming in is what intrigued me.