PLEIN AIR
en Plein air, painting outdoors on location, in the open air, is my favorite way to paint as I love being immersed in nature. Several years ago, I gave myself this challange: to give up sketching & simply go right ahead and paint. Instead of making a sketch first before painting, I paint directly onto the paper. This way of painting, combined with the rapid changes in weather, shifts of lighting & unexpected movements of my natural subjects, is the excitement I love when painting en plain air!
PRESIDIO TREES
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air, painting outdoors on location. This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original SOLD, Archival Giclee prints are available.
Presidio Trees
PRESIDIO EUCALYPTUS
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
This painting won the 2010 Presidio Paint Out People's Choice Award.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Presidio Eucalyptus
PRESIDIO FOREST 29 AUGUST 2010
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Presidio Forest
29 August 2010
TREES TOGETHER 29 AUGUST 2010
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Trees Together
29 August 2010
ACROSS FOGGY BAY ALAMEDA CLOUDBURST
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Across Foggy Bay
Alameda Cloudburst
MT VIEW FOREST
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Mt. View Forest
MT. VIEW CANOPY
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Mt. View Canopy
PRESIDIO PINE
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Presidio Pine
LAND'S END
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Archival Giclee prints are available. Original SOLD.
Lands End
GLEN PARK
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Glen Park
WAUPACA REFLECTIONS
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Waupaca Reflections
SHEPARD CANYON TREE
This was definately painting on site, which allows me to be in places I love to capture with watercolors. Plein air painting is my favorite excuse to paint in the wilds of nature!
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Shepard Canyon Tree
STOWE LAKE MINI
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Stowe Lake
SABDS & STONES
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Sand & Stones
TREE ROOTS
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Tree Roots
EVERGREEN TREES
After a wonderfulhigh altitude lunch outdoors at Keys On The Green, I captured a few of the pine trees and brought the time together back with me for dessert. Visiting Evergreen, while being in the Colorado Rockies, is always a treat to my senses, as the air is so filled with the clear fresh aroma of the trees & invigorates my appetite. Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Evergreen, Colorado
SANTA FE TURTLE SKY
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
Santa Fe Turtle Sky
VIEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO FERRY BUILDING
Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
View From San Francisco
Ferry Building
GHOST RANCH BOX CANYON
The coolness of the shady Box Canyon brought two hikers into a much needed rest. We found out later it was over 100 degrees as we walked up the creek in the New Mexican sunlight. What a treat to be able to walk upon this enchanting land where Georgia O'Keefe painted in New Mexico. Perhaps she too sat , painted, and had wonderful dreams in this same select spot on her Ghost Ranch.Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Ghost Ranch Box Canyon
GHOST RANCH
I sat upon a cool rock, shaded by the Box Canyon and experienced this wonderful view of New Mexico, where Georgia O'Keefe had once lived. The intense heat of the day's walk floated away as I quenched my thirst on the tranquility of the tall trees & cliffs before me. No wonder she was so prolific here on her Ghost Ranch. And this is only one zillionith of the enchantment of her land. Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Ghost Ranch
TRAIN TRIP TREES
What a great adventure to travel via train watching the landscape change from the West coast to the Eastern USA! I focused on the far distant land, until the train turned a sharp left & my subject disappeared from view! Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Train Trip Trees
TRAIN TRIP LANDSCAPE
What a great adventure to travel via train watching the landscape change from the West coast to the Eastern USA! I focused on the far distant land, until the train turned a sharp left & my subject disappeared from view! Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available.
Train Trip Landscape
SF BLUE SKY WITH CLOUDS
This is one of the many possibilities of what lies above San Francisco, after the blanket of fog has lifted, you can see this sky of blue with skattered clouds. Transparent Watercolor painted en Plein Air. Painting outdoors on location This is my favorite way to paint as I love being outside totally surrounded by nature...in nature.
Original and Archival Giclee prints available
SF Blue Sky with Clouds
MINIATURES
My plein air paint seto is mini too. This allows me to paint at any moment, where ever I may roam. I am inspired by what captures my senses: the aroma of the landscape, the quaking of the trees, the movement of the windsong on the swirling waters. Perhaps you can feel the peaceful excitement of total absorbson in the scene before you. I find a mini painting on site to be truly blissful!
GHOST RANCH BOX CANYON
The coolness of the shady Box Canyon brought two hikers into a much needed rest. We found out later it was over 100 degrees as we walked up the creek in the New Mexican sunlight. What a treat to be able to walk upon this enchanting land where Georgia O'Keefe painted in New Mexico. Perhaps she too sat , painted, and had wonderful dreams in this same select spot on her Ghost Ranch.
Ghost Ranch Box Canyon
GHOST RANCH
I sat upon a cool rock, shaded by the Box Canyon and experienced this wonderful view of New Mexico, where Georgia O'Keefe had once lived. The intense heat of the day's walk floated away as I quenched my thirst on the tranquility of the tall trees & cliffs before me. No wonder she was so prolific here on her Ghost Ranch. And this is only one zillionith of the enchantment of her land.
Ghost Ranch
TRAIN TRIP LANDSCAPE
What a great adventure to travel via train watching the landscape change from the West coast to the Eastern USA! I focused on the far distant land, until the train turned a sharp left & my subject disappeared from view!
Train Trip Landscape
TRAIN TRIP TREES
Riding the train across the countryside from Emeryville, California to NYC was a beautiful trip I recommend to everyone who will take the time to truly enjoy the view of our country. I was on my way to work on Christo & Jeanne-Claude's THE GATES-CENTRAL PARK. My adventures had just begun with this incrediable time that I took advantage of with my mini plein air seto
Train Trip Trees
TRAIN TRIP CLOUDS
As I rode the train across the USA from Emeryville to NYC, I loved watching the constantly changing sky. Focusing on the far distance, I painted from my little sleeper car with my mini traveling plein air seto.
Train Trip Clouds
RUSSIAN RIVER
Listening to Blues & Jazz, as people played in the water of the river rushing by, I couldn't resist capturing the trees listening to us celebrate the summer together along The Russian River in California.
Russian River
EVERGREEN, COLORADO
After a wonderful high altitude lunch outdoors at Keys On The Green, I captured a few of the pine trees and brought the time together back with me for dessert. Visiting Evergreen, while being in the Colorado Rockies, is always a treat to my senses, as the air is so filled with the clear fresh aroma of the trees & invigorates my appetite.
Evergreen Colorado
SF BLUE SKY WITH CLOUDS
This is one of the many possibilities of what lies above San Francisco, after the blanket of fog has lifted, you can see this sky of blue with skattered clouds.
San Francisco Clouds
BAY AREA SUNSET
Also to be remembered as Joe Wetherbee's sky.
Bay Area Sunset
TOMALES BAY
Tomales Bay
TOMALES BAY FOG
Tomales Bay Fog
TOMALES BAY DISSAPEARING GRASS
Tomales Bay Disappearing Grass