Thank you all for visiting me and all of the other artists at the Harvest Festival today in Toluca Lake on Riverside Drive! It was fun, although it was unseasonably hot! If you missed us, we will be back 12/4/2021 in the same place selling our wares! Below is aContinue Reading
Harvest Festival Pop-up Art SaleContinue Reading
I did some final touch-ups to the painting I started of the grassy patch at the Deukmajian Wilderness Center. To push it to the back more, I added a blue glaze to the distant mountain. I also cleaned up the black lines to separate the shapes. Finally, the color ofContinue Reading
Plein air painting at the Deukmejian Nature Center.Continue Reading
I used some reference photos to finish this painting. I’m not an expert on cars and in the end I realized I had changed the model of the main car. The trim and the brake lights are different from my location photo. Darn.Continue Reading
The bones of this painting I did en plein air at Lake Balboa in Encino, California. I painted with a new plein air group and we had some ‘incidents’ from the pigeons in the trees. I always carry heavy duty towels and pink brush cleaner for times like those. IContinue Reading
I finished the painting of a building at Olive Park in Burbank. I do not know the official name of it. I originally started this en plein air and completed it using my cloisonnist style with some impressionism in the background.Continue Reading
The Montrose Car Show today happened to be on the hottest day this month so far (100°F) so I was lucky to find a somewhat shady spot by the road to paint. I used my spray bottle often to keep the acrylic paint from drying. Two hours and the resultContinue Reading
I painted this on a 12″ square canvas en plein air in about an hour and a half. The sun was already behind a hill when I started and there was hardly any light left at all when I finished. Even though it was painted quickly and alla prima, IContinue Reading
Greetings! I’ve added some new framed prints to the OWILL.ART Store. Leave me a comment on the Contact page if you want a print of another painting I do not have in the store. I will look into it and email you when it is in stock!Continue Reading