Hello, and welcome to my new Blog, “Not Quite a Painting a Day.”
I suppose one should begin at ‘The Beginning,’ and if one has read the
essay under the tab above, “The Journey,” one might very well take that to be ‘The
Beginning;’ or was ‘The Beginning’ really the earliest of those extended
sketching journeys near the start of my Art career; or was it when one of my
earliest Watercolour won a 2nd Place Ribbon at the Tri-State Fair at
age seven? Perhaps it was the sunrise
seen at age five that inspired that early Watercolour; or maybe it goes back to
one of my earliest outdoor memories of sunlight sparkling on the water at a
picnic at age two or so? It might be
said that all Beginnings on the thread of life are one Beginning. Philosophical musings aside, this is the
first posting on my first Blog, therefore let us consider this as the
beginning; at least of this new Journey.
And so again I bid you welcome.
At present I am on the south-central coast of
Oregon and attended the opening of the “21st Maritime Art
Exhibition,” at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay last weekend, and in which I
had two small and highly detailed Watercolours.
These were painted several years ago, before this present Journey had
begun, and I had them available for submission to the show. They represent my labor-intensive studio
Watercolours, and not the Oil Sketches & Studies that will be mostly
presented on this Odyssey. They are presented
below.
C1328
“Day’s End on Indian
Beach”
(Ecola State Park, Oregon Coast)
Watercolour
3”
x 9”
C1349
“Blustery Afternoon at
Shore Acres with Simpson Reef Beyond”
(Shore Acres State Park, Oregon Coast)
Watercolour
5½”
x 11”
I
will be camping on private land in the Bandon area for the next few days,
courtesy of friends of mine, and will be painting the coast hereabouts before
moving on and painting further south along the Oregon Coast. While here I hope to finalize the
coordination between this Blog and Daily Paintworks, and should have the first
of my Oil Sketches up for sale on my next posting. In the meantime I will leave you with one
more image; this time of one of my small Oil Paintings, which is at the Rip
Caswell Gallery in Troutdale, Oregon.
Please do come back and enjoy this
Journey into the Wild.
C1545
“Spring Run-off”
(Lower Lewis Falls, Gifford Pinchot,
National Forest, Washington Cascades)
Oil on Panel
5”
x 10”
Cheers
for now … and see you soon.
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