A Centuty of Landscapes: Selections from the California Art Club

A Centuty of Landscapes: Selections from the California Art Club, San Francisco chapter has it's openning reception with the artist on July 14th. A small plein air painting of mine the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park was accepted to the show. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the reception as I am on a family vacation in Hawai'i. I did bring my gouache kit with me, so I hope to have some paintings of Oahu to post when I get back to the Bay Area.

Treasures of the East Bay: Paintings by Local Artist

Treasures of the East Bay: Paintings by Local Artist. This is my first group show with the California Art Club's San Francisco chapter. It will be held at the Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library in Oakland. The show runs from March 5 -July 9, 2010. More information can be found by clicking here. Below is my painting that's in the show titled "Eastern Sky".

Sundays Portrait Painting

Sundays painting from Pam Powell's portrait painting group and California Art Club. It was a five hour pose, the model's name escapes me, sorry. I added a imaginary environment for the model to sit in, which kept me busy during the model breaks.

CAC Portrait Paint-in

Last Sunday I attended the California Art Club SF chapter portrait paint-in hosted by Pam Powell. Here's my painting of the model with perhaps the most difficult eyes I have tried to paint. They were challenging to paint because her eyes were either looking around the room constantly or heavy eye lids ready to fall asleep.

Lake Chabot

Today's paint out was in conjunction with the California Art Club held at Lake Chabot in Castro valley. A gorgeous dry day to paint in the Bay Area and meet some fellow plein air painters. It was nice meeting you all and thank you for the cookies.



For painting number two I decided to walk up the trail that goes around the lake. Unfortunately it took longer than I had anticipated to find a location to set up and paint. This left me an hour to paint this study. Since I knew time was short it forced me to plan ahead and constantly move around the canvas more.