KVIE Art Auction: Land Park Trees

This is my piece that was juried into the 2015 KVIE Art Auction to be aired the 3rd weekend in September.  I had started it on location over in Land Park and finished it up in the studio.
Land Park Trees
16 x 20
oil on canvas\

Delta Forever Exhibition

This painting is part of a group exhibition entitled "Delta Forever" and will be on exhibit at Shimo Gallery throught the month of June.  Greg Kondos' wife Moni has so graciously and tirelessly organized this beautiful show to bring awareness and attention to the fragile beauty of the Delta region and it's importance to our city, county, and state.

12x24
oil on canvas
available for acquisition

San Francisco Plein Air Trip

A little 6" x8" plein air painting I did during a San Francisco plein air painting trip with one of my dear artist buddies, Abigail VanCannon.  

Plein Air Mendocino

Plein Air Painting in Mendocino.  I accompanied my good  friend and artist Victoria Brooks to help out with her workshop at the Mendocino Art Center and had the chance to do this quick study the day before the workshop.   I love painting over on the coast and Mendocino is absolutely charming.  Since it was a quick study and quite cloudy, I did a limited palette: ultramarine blue, quinacridone red, hansa yellow and white. 

6" x 8" 
oil on canvas panel

Patris Studio and Art Gallery : art | ArtJabber

Patris Studio and Art Gallery : art | ArtJabber: art | ArtJabber Big Names Small Art at the Crocker Art Museum.  Lesley Stein and I met while the bidding wars went full speed ahead for my ...

Donuts Anyone?

I got on this donut kick and started painting this donut series.  After painting them and looking at them as still life objects I have no desire to eat them myself. 

 10" x 10"
oil on board

Another composition. I like the idea of seeing how many different compositions I can make with 3 donuts in a square format.  

Commissions from nearly a decade ago

I was over at UC Davis hospital yesterday and as soon as I stepped inside this building these two paintings caught my eye.  Lo and behold, and much to my surprise and delight,  these were my paintings from nearly a decade ago when I was commissioned to do these Colusa landmarks for a UC Davis clinic up in Colusa.  Maybe the Colusa clinic closed and these paintings were brought back to Sacramento for the new building which I had entered.

So here we are  back nearly 10 years ago.  I distinctly remember driving up to Colusa to photograph these buildings and the challenge it was because the Courthouse view was covered  in tree canopy.

Colusa High School, a very beautiful, very long horizontal brick structure.