Finished

I went back to the same area and painted another view, this time of a large tree, most of it's leaves gone for the season. Finished, 9 x 12. The weather was great - a lovely day to be out painting.

Meander

Here's a painting from last Sunday - went to a local park. Autumn colors are starting to fade now. It was a beautiful morning with great weather.  Meander, 9 x 12.

Mt.Oyster Club

One of my paintings was accepted into the 45th annual Mt. Oyster Club show of western art, held every year in Tucson. I am excited about this. Here is a copy of the picture that is in the show. The show will run from Nov 23 to the first week of January.
Here is a link to the show website. The website has an online gallery that shows all the paintings in the show.

Hall Ranch Wash, 12 x 16, Sold at Mt. Oyster Show.

Waiting

I like to scan my pictures rather than take photos of them. Somehow the colors never come out right in the photographs. The scanner does pretty well with the color and I can get a good resolution and it is always in focus.

That being said, you can't scan them till they are dry. I now have paintings from three different painting sessions that are still in the process of drying. As soon as the weather got cooler everything is just taking longer to dry.  In one picture particularly where I have a patch of thick almost-white paint it is still wet after a week and a half. The titanium white especially seems very slow drying. I will start trying some fast-drying alkyd white for outdoor painting.

This one is finally dry enough.  This was the painting I was working when my blog profile picture was taken. Sandbar Sunset, 9 x 12, sold.

Autumn Scenes

I went out painting near the river again yesterday and did two paintings. Here's the first one of them. The grasses and leaves are definitely losing their green and settling into autumn. I attempted to paint at sunset on the second picture - a real challenge as the sky and light are so changeable. I will post that one later, but here's the first one from earlier in the afternoon. I'll get a better picture of it after it dries. Autumn Light, 9 x 12. Maybe I'll put this one in the Paintworks challenge since the topic is Autumn.

River Turns and Trees turning

Here's my latest plein air painted near the river from last Friday. The massive flood we had last year washed through this area forming new channels and side channels and making a whole new landscape. Fall is starting to set in - saw two bald eagles perched in a snag, several herons and egrets and flocks of redwing blackbirds wheeling back and forth. It's a beautiful place -we were here at sunset the day before and it was wonderful.  Turnings, 8 x 10, sold.