During the month of August there is an exhibit comprised of the twenty award winning paintings of the Watercolor Society of Oregon Traveling Show and many other aqueous media paintings from around Oregon. I saw the show on Tuesday and it was great, so many good paintings to see! It is such an opportunity t

During the month of August, Helen Hilman, one of our active members of the Valley Viewfinders Camera Club, has an exhibit of her photos at Albany City Hall. I went to take a look at the show yesterday. There is a wide variety of excellent photos - portraits, scenic landscapes,

If you like colorful abstract paintings and you will be near Ashland during the month of August, there is an exhibit you ought to see. Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass will be showing a large number of her paintings at the Art & Soul Gallery in Ashland.

It is late notice, but there is a very good show of paintings by Carolee Clark at

I tried an experiment with watercolors yesterday. It didn't work as hoped...The idea was to get bubble patterns in paint transferred to paper. Bubbles are always darker along the edges when sitting on a surface and capturing that darker pattern was the goal. A mixture of water, watercolor and dish washing deterge

During the month of June, the exhibit in the Giustina Gallery at the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University will be "As Time Goes By", a collection of work done by artists who have exhibited in the Art in the Valley Gallery in Corvallis or in its previous incarnation as the Illustrated Garden Gallery. The exhibit

This painting includes some stamped areas, but looks very different from the previous one, which also included stamping.

Here is a photo of the linoleum stamp (mentioned in my previous post) that I carved during the Betsy Dillard Stroud painting workshop I attended this past week. It was carved with a small X-Acto v-shaped groover tool.(The brown a

Getting a photo to accurately capture iridescence is difficult at best, but I have taken a few shots to show sections of the painting in my previous post that were painted with iridescent paint. They do show some of the sparkle and color sh

Rice Fields from Space is my latest painting. It is another in my current series using satellite images as the subject matter. The subject for this painting is a location in the region of rice fields north of Sacramento, California. The mosaic-like pattern formed by the rice fields interspersed with natural

For the past 30 years, I have been working with satellite imagery, primarily from Landsat satellites. These images provide wonderful views of the earth's landforms and USGS does a great job of making these images available.The sight of one particular land area has become

After how well my last digital painting from a photograph was received I decided to make another one. This one is from another Oregon garden, the beautiful one at Shore Acres State Park on the coast.

Below is another painted collage which was added to the Albany City Hall show called Mountains and Fences. It is 16" x 20" (41cm x 51cm) on a wood panel.

Two paintings sold at my Albany City Hall show and here is one of the replacements, an 8" x 8" painted collage called "Gallop the Plains." The exhibit lasts until December 30th.

My good friend, Dennis Fehler, is using iridescent acrylic artist paints to produce some very eye-catching hand-made, hand-painted earrings. Take a look at his Glass and Wire Gallery to see the variety he has available.

Last night we got my paintings and collages hung at Albany City Hall. There are 30 painted collages, watercolors and acrylic paintings. The show will run until Dec. 30 and open hours are 8-5, Monday through Friday. (

Here are some close-ups of the "Front Range" painting from the last post to give a better view of the texture and layers of paint. Click on the photo for an even closer look.

This is one of the newer paintings that will be in my upcoming show in December - acrylic and watercolor paintings and painted collages at Albany City Hall.

Lately, I've had a number of things in the works, art and things connected to art. One was putting together the gallery of winning paintings from the latest Watercolor Society of Oregon Exhibit to go online. Lots of good paintings are there with c

Late yesterday- first a rainbow, then the sunset...

I was beginning to have my doubts, but finally some nice fall color has arrived here. Some photos from a stroll around LBCC (Linn Benton Community College)...

Both of these paintings were done using acrylic paints. This first one, slightly more representational than the one following, was painted with a watercolor consistency on rag mat board. The mat board readily absorbed the paint, giving it an appearance of more depth. This may not be so visible on the computer monitor.