Quarry Hill Botanical Garden Water Lilies, 10 x 20 inches, pastel.

Just a quick post of one of the paintings that I did during the Sonoma Plein Air Festival last week. I did this painting in the rain--fortunately a knight errant came up to the lake in a golf cart to give my soggy, sorry self a ride back to the parking lot.

The fun never ends--this weekend is the Los Gatos Plein Air Festival. The paintings will be assembled Saturday June 5th from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the Old Town Shopping Center.

Morning Barn, 24 x 36 inches, pastel, available.

Last week Kim Fancher and I went to Napa and Sonoma for a day of plein air painting. This painting, unfinished as it is, is done from photographs that I took of a decrepit beauty. We stopped by the COPIA center to see a fine exhibit of some of my favorite painters... Nancy MacDonald, Kevin Courter, Kim Fancher Lordier, Keith Wicks, Randall Sexton and someone new to me...Kristin Pallas--very nice paintings. Here are links to their work.

Kevin Courter

Kim Lordier

Nancy MacDonald

Kristine Pallas

Randall Sexton

Keith Wicks

Flower Market, 12 x 16, pastel, available.

This is one of the paintings that I completed last week during the Sonoma Plein Air Festival. I had a wonderful week of painting barns, tractors and the lovely scenery of wine country.

I have just updated my website with information about my october plein air workshop. If you are interested, please give me a call or write to me. More information.