What A Year!

 

 Unfurling

30 x 30

 

With all that has been going on in life this year I finally got to spend some time in my studio and finished up this little beauty.  It's a white Dahlia with so many interesting shapes and soft soothing colors.  I needed a calming painting like this right now.....how about you?

Pearl

Pearl - 30 x 30

I have had this painting finished for several months now and I have been pondering over a name for her.  Two weeks ago my family came over for a BBQ and I put them all to the task of naming this sweet cow.  Pearl was the favorite due to the prism of soft coloring within her white hide.

New Summer Work

I have been busy with a large commission piece and I didn't want to post photos of it in progress because I wanted my client to be the first to see the finished piece.  She loves it and has it hanging in her living room. The painting is of a favorite coffee shop she used to frequent in North Beach, San Francisco.

Caffe Trieste

I also just completed a painting for an upcoming show entitled "White Balance".  I love whites!  There is so much subtle color reflected in whites.

Summer

Thursday I began painting a night scene. In 8 years of painting, I have never done a night scene. It is looking at Cafe du Metro and the church is St-Sulpice in the Saint-Germain district in Paris. The church was made famous in the book/movie "The Da Vinci Code". My girlfriends and I were walking back to our hotel from dinner when I photographed this scene.

The beginnings of "St-Sulpice, Paris"