Two More Knife Paintings

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After doing a painting with a knife because I forgot my brushes a while back,  I've been doing some more.  These are both keepers. This one I did from my car at the beach which is the only place I seem to be painting at lately.

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And this one from a photo I took at the beach.  It took a long time to get the foreground to where I liked it.

Article about Me

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A writer friend, Fran Kelso has written a post about me on her new blog where she writes amongst other things about people in our small community.   You can read the post here.

And while I'm here for a change, I've included on of my newer paintings. I painted at the beach with a palette knife when I had forgotten to take my brushes with me.   There are more new paintings on my website at DPW.

Along the Lane

oil 8x8

This is a fairly recent oil painting, a summer view along a lane near my home.

In the Woods

oil on linen

 This is one of several paintings done in the last couple of years in plein aire in the woods next to our house.  The path wanders through the woods to the main road.

Some Books

Two friends have recently published books that have included some of my paintings.  In Judith Aftergut's memoir, Everything They Wanted, she writes of her discovering Glacier Bay, Gustavus, and the surrounding area in the 70's which was the same time I moved here, and it brings to mind my own introduction to this amazing place I call home.  Above is one of the paintings included in the book, painted in 1996.

 

 Above is the cover of the book.  The photo on the cover was taken by local photographer, Fritz Koschman.  You can click here for more information on Judith and her book.

Fran Kelso built a cabin where she lived on Spruce Island, near Kodiak, and wrote about building it and her life and neighbors in her book, Alaskan Attitudes.  I had the pleasure of visiting the  cabin in 2014 and painted the cabin and the view from the beach which she used for the back and front cover of the book.

Above is the cover of Fran's book and below the cabin which is on the back of the book.

You can read more about her book here.  Fran also wrote a very informative book on foraging wild plants which you can read about here.

I might as well add two other books by local friends that I've done illustrations for.

I did several pen and ink illustrations in this one as well as the cover which wraps around to the back cover.  It was published in 2096 and is out of print.

And I did the pen and ink drawing on the cover of this one.  It was published in 1988.  

Both of these are out of print  but available used on Amazon.

Nasturtiums

watercolor 12x9 inches

I finished this painting this week.  I'd started it in late summer, just painting the flowers and drew in the vases and bottle.  This is the way I do most of my larger still life paintings with flowers.  Sometimes I've just plopped flowers into a jar and painted them and weeks or months later decided what I would put around them.  The design in the background is done with gouache (opaque watercolor). 

A Beach Painting from last Fall

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This was probably the last plain air oil painting I did last year, down at the beach near the dock.  It is definitely the last one I didn't wipe out.

I've been hoping to put something new here for the last week, but I haven't been able to finish anything.  I am beginning to walk pretty well and there is less pain.  Instead of painting much, I've been catching up on paperwork and working on my gallery at Daily Paintwork.  And this morning I thought it time to do a little editing on my blogs and found several comments from last year that were never moderated. And there was one this month that never arrived in my email, and I checked my trash.  I guess I'd better check more often and apologize if I didn't respond sooner.

Belated Happy New Year

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 This is a watercolor I painted last year of the Dude Creek Critical Habitat in Gustavus.  Sandhill cranes stop here on their spring and fall migration 

I had hoped to start  blogging regularly and do Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge this month, but after a two month hassle getting scheduled I went into Juneau on the ferry Monday and had arthroscopic miniscus repair surgery on Wednesday. I came home yesterday.  I had started 3 paintings before I went to Juneau, but its going to be a while before I'm going to easily go down the stairs to the studio too finish them.  Tomorrow, I hope to set up and paint in the living room.

I have been working on getting my gallery set up in Daily Paintworks.  I've yet to get a paypal button, but I do have prices and an email button. It's one thing at a time when the internet decides to let me in.