My Daily Painting Blog began with “ Fall Cottonwoods”.   One day last month I spent the day on Mount Lemmon painting on location with a painting friend of mine. I painted “Autumn Reds” in a rare stand of Maple trees in Bear Canyon.   I thought the painting was pretty good, but didn’t think much about it until I painted “Fall Cottonwoods” several weeks later.  This painting turned out well.  It felt good to be out on location and 100 Paintings, 100 Days, 125 Dollars has become my new project.





  During the next 100 days, I’ll be painting 100 oil paintings and posting these paintings on my website for sale through PayPal for 125 dollars.  They are all 6x8 inches and are sold unframed.  Click here to view and purchase.

There is something about painting plein air that feeds my spirit..  It is the art of really being focused and knowing my tools.  The equivalent is painting and drawing short poses from a model.  Time is short and one needs to get it right.  It is a challenge with the changing light and other outdoor annoyances like insects and wind, but the results can be worth the effort.  I tend to paint boldly even with my studio paintings and an obsession with detail doesn’t work well outdoors.  It is about bold and direct statements that capture the essence of a scene.  I like to work large outdoors so it will be a challenge for me to work in a 6x8 format.  Sometimes I’ll paint a larger piece and then do a smaller version with a slightly different composition.  I’ll post both to this blog when I do.  I work with a palette knife and brush sometimes separately sometimes together.  I just do what works.

Most of these paintings will be plein air, but this is winter and even in Tucson we can get some pretty bad weather.  It is cold and rainy out there today.  So some of these paintings will be done from the thousands of photographs I have taken in a host of places like Zion National Park, and the Rocky Mountains.  Some of these may be studies that I develop into larger series of gallery pieces.

I’ll be adding these paintings to my website as I go along and will keep people informed who are signed up to receive my newsletter.  Click here to join my newsletter.

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