Painting in Petaluma offers so many outdoor choices and we went up on a hill surrounded by vineyards. We were overlooking the Live Oak Ranch.  The "golden" hills looked flat in the noon day sunlight but by 3pm the light was beautiful. Learn to start an outdoor painting and wait for the light!

"Fulton Corrals" oil 11"x 14"

I am teaching a workshop with the New Hampshire State Conference on Arts Education, "Painting Connections-Painting Habitats.
This painting from Hayden Heritage Days is about connections and community. Its not a portrait of any one object. Portrait and Landscape paintings are two approaches that painters use to create what they see: objects or space.

Monet's waterlilies inspired this demo at OLLI and UVM. It was an Osher Life Long Learning Class.
All of us learned from Monet.
Join the next Class in Burlington!

Maple Leaves" oil 20"x 24" $1200

Here are the summer maple leaves.

"Lake Champlain" oil 8"x10" $550

Landscape Painting reflects our current Global Community

Portrait paintings depict objects and they present isolated subjects (think Grandma Moses paintings). Landscape paintings depict communities; objects bound by their connections to each other.  The connections are the crux of a true landscape painting (think Maynard Dixon paintings). Is the Art World exhibiting current, relevant painters and thinkers?  From global economies to community gardens, the 21^st century is governed by how we connect. The current Art World is still on the Object. When will it move beyond objects and discover the other art-Landscape? 

"Ligui, Baja" oil 12"x16" $850

I started kayaking the Baja coast here, south of Agua Verde, and for seven days I was on the water and watching the cliffs undulate and always with the Sierra de la Gigante towering over the Sea of Cortez. The Baja colors were brilliant and often soft at the same time. 

"Punta Valle, Baja" oil 9"x12" $550

Slipping silently down the coast of Baja in my sea kayak, I was the wanna-be drawn to the canyons and wanting to explore! When I was on the sand and grounded with my margarita and watching the sunset, I missed the water. I painted four oils on location and kept my paints almost sand free.