Blue House, Monterey, CA - 8x10

It's been a really long time since I've painted one of these architectural pieces. I love doing them, but they ARE more time consuming (and studio time always seems too limited these days!)

Oil on panel, 8x10 inches

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Beach Clouds, Carpinteria - 9x12

We've been having absolutely gorgeous clouds lately, I love it! 

My favorite part of this one is the light yellow/orange color shining through and against the clouds. 

Oil on canvas panel, 9x12 inches

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Arlington at Sunset - 12x12

I got all paint-angsty (that's totally a thing) last week, and so I painted this...as fast as I could (baby naps aren't too long).  I fully expected it to be a disaster, but I actually love it! 

Oil on panel, 12x12 inches

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Clouds Over the Salt Marsh - 6x6

First painting since the birth...I'm depressingly rusty! But still probably not the worst painting that I've done, and it's good to get back to it, even for just a little bit. 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

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Ocean View - 6x12

More from that awesome sunset walk on the bluffs.  Loved the different shadows in this piece. 

Oil on cradled panel, 6x12 inches

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Sunset at the Bluffs - 6x6

I was really sad to not participate in the annual studio tour this weekend, but since most of my studio is packed in boxes waiting for our approaching move date I guess I didn't have much of a choice :) 

I'm really fond of how this little piece turned out.  It was one of those afternoons that was just perfectly warm and sunny, and the purple sunset shadows were just beginning to creep up.

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

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Plein Air Beach Fog - 8x10

I don't usually like to paint outdoors, but recently I've been venturing out more and more, just to get away from the sound of the freeway (and freeway construction!) that plagues my current studio.  Standing in the sand on an empty beach beats a noisy studio any day.  And I'm having fun getting loose with these plein air paintings, I have a vision of what I'm striving for them to look like (and it's nothing like my studio work!) 

Oil on canvas panel, 8x10 inches

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Brooklyn Bridge - 5x7

Considering the awful photo I had to work from (it was just kind of a blah day when we took our tour),  I'm really happy with how this one turned out.  I have a little bit more confidence in my ability to imagine things, like the sunlight on this bridge for instance. 

Oil on panel, 5x7 

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Long Beach Lighthouse - 6x6

Zach and I took a trip to Long Beach recently (aquarium anyone?).  And I happen to find a few fun things to paint while I was there too :) 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

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Butterfly Beach Commission - 10x10

This is what winter looks like in Santa Barbara, I guess I can't complain. 

Oil on panel, 10x10 inches

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Tangerines and a Teabag - 6x6

Been eating a lot of these recently, I just love those bright colors :) 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

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Red and Blue Berries

I love this color combination, just wanted to play around with it a bit. 

Oil on panel, 6x6 inches

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Sidewalk and Shadows - 9x12

I painted this just for that bright bit of sunlight that's happening on the grass and sidewalk.  That yellowish green color is always my favorite. 

Oil on panel, 9x12 inches

Available at the Palm Loft Gallery, August 2011

Aloha - Hawaii Landscape Oil Painting - 10x10

A little break from cloudy scenes, I dug up this reference photo from my last trip to Hawaii. I usually finish my paintings in one uninterrupted sitting... I had to leave this one for a few hours in the middle, which made it much more difficult to finish.

In other news, we found an apartment! Or townhouse I guess. It's so perfect! It even has a garage, and an outside room for I don't know what. It has a large built in desk for Zach to use since he had to leave his in Denver. And the extra bedroom already has tons of shelves where I can store my paintings!

And I finally got on the front page on Etsy last night, first time ever :)

Oil on hardboard panel, 10x10 inches

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Carpinteria Campgrounds II - Landscape Oil Painting - 12x12

This is the larger version of yesterday's painting. I'm not completely satisfied with it, and I even did a few touch ups on it a few hours after I finished (something I never do). I think I only made things worse. The actual painting looks a lot better than this photo, it's cloudy today and for some reason I can't get a good shot of anything. I'm trying to paint a few more 12x12 pieces (the biggest size I have at the moment) so I'll actually have something to show at the end of May.

Oil on gessoed panel, 12x12 inches

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May - Carpinteria Landscape Oil Painting - 12x12

I really liked the smaller version I did of this scene (posted here). So I decided it would be worth it to paint a larger one. I think I actually like this one better than the first...and I might just be tempted to keep it for myself :)

Oil on panel, 12x12 inches - SOLD

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The Duck - Original Oil Painting - 6x6

I don't usually paint animals, but there was something about this duck and his shadow that needed to be painted. And I just love ducks. Especially white ones, we used to have a duck that looked just like this one...he was best friends with our dog, and would sleep on top of him. Also, a little bit of trivia, you can tell that this is a boy duck by the little curl on his tail :)

Oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 6x6 inches

SOLD

And tomorrow is the last day to enter my giveaway!

Giveaway?

I want to do a giveaway soon (where I would giveaway one of my small 6x6 paintings). But I can't decide which would be a better choice, a landscape or a still life? Anyone have thoughts about which they would rather win?

So a landscape giveaway might look a little like this one:

And a still life giveaway would probably be of avocados (so fun to paint) and might look a little like this:

thoughts?

Avocado in Purple - Still life oil painting

Hey guess what came today? Art supplies! Finally!
Today's painting is a little different than usual, I don't think I've ever used purple as a background color before, but I kind of enjoyed it. I guess purple and I have a love/hate relationship.

6x6 inches, oil on stretched canvas - SOLD

Tiny Avocado - Still Life Oil Painting

I'm almost out of these little canvases, those supplies better get here soon!

2.5x3.5 inches, oil on stretched canvas - SOLD