Tuesday 25th November 2008 - Watermelon Rock

Shari and I took a drive down to a little south of Pilar to paint the Rio Grande river with the famous local landmark, Watermelon Rock, so named because it changes all kinds of shades of red during the day. It was a grey, cloudy day so when a shaft of light hit the rock and turned it a pinky orange, I painted quickly to get it down.

Watermelon Rock - 16 x 12" - oil on canvas panel - sold

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Saturday 22nd November 2008 - Orange Trees

Again, something a little different. I've been wanting to push my composition and colour a little, to make my paintings more exciting and dramatic. I worked from a photograph I took a couple of weeks ago while the trees were still orange. I really liked the way the bright colour was contrasting with the blue of the distant hills behind.

Orange Trees - 20 x 20" - oil on canvas - $1,200

Friday 21st November 2008 - Kitty

A departure in style for this painting of my Kitty, I wanted to do something a little more colourful than usual.

Christmas Kitty - 12 x 12" - oil on gesso board - $575

Thursday 20th November 2008 - Ray's class

I made Ray smile when he saw this one because the lake with the yellow trees is just across from where he used to live and he'd painted that lake many times. Kevin MacPherson now has Ray's old house and actually published a book of just paintings of this lake.



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Wednesday 19th November 2008 - Kaitlin

A second week of the lovely Kaitlin, same pose different angle.

Kaitlin - oil on canvas - 20 x 16" - $1,175

Tuesday 18th November 2008 - California Beach Sunrise

This was painted from one of my favourite California Coastline photos, I was looking forward to painting it. Did the most part in the gallery on Tuesday and finished it off on Thursday.

California Beach Sunrise - 12 x 16" - oil on canvas - $750