September Oil Paintings Progress Report

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1.  "Gulls at the Barn Door," 24x18x 1 1/4 oil on hand stretched Belgian Linen 66J

2.  "Bird Lovers," 28x22x 1 1/4 oil on hand stretched Belgian Linen 66J 

3.  "Daffodils and Gazania with Hidden Bird," 10x8x 3/4 on Linen

4.  "Skywalker Ranch Hills," 7x5x 3/4," oil on linen

Blue Tanager in the Candelabra

 Oil on Linen 8x10.  Latest edition to my bird/flower series.  The Candelabra flower is from a photo shot at the UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens.

Capped Parrot in Mendocino Now Finished

 I added grass and touched up the parrot's red cape.  Oil on Belgian Linen 22 x 28 now done.

August Oil Painting Progress Report: 3 Finished 2 Nearly Done and 1 Just Begun

 Finished Works:

1.  One Flew Over the Puffin Tryst:  Oil on Belgian Linen 18x18x1 1/4

2.  The Courtship:  Oil on canvas 20x24x1 1/2

6.  Sunflowers & Hibiscus:  Oil on canvas 8x10x 1 1/2

Nearly Done:

3.  Capped Parrot in Mendocino:  Oil on Belgian Linen 22x28x 1/1/4

4.  A Lot Going On (Cartoon style):  Oil on Linen 12x16x 5/8

In Process:  

5.  Bird Lovers:  Oil on Belgian Linen 22x28x 1 1/4

More Birds and a Raft

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1.  Soft Landing: Red Crow on a Magnolia Flower - 8x10 oil on linen

2.  Bald Eagle Flying over a Fractured Rainbow - 8x10 oil on canvas

3.  4 Parakeets in a Arthur Dove Inspired Sunset - 11x10 oil on canvas

4.  In Process:  Three Girls in a Raft - 8x10 oil on linen

Finch with Bird of Paradise Oil Paining

 Latest oil on linen 8x10.  

Kitty Cats and the Mountain Lion - new Oil Painting

 New Oil on Stretched Belgian Linen 28 x 22 x 1/1/4.  Using a reference photo of the Nicasio reservoir and an old photo of Amber, shot in Texas, it made sense to add a mountain lion.

Los Tres Amigos

 A new series of bird people?  Los Tres Amigos.  8x10 oil on linen.

#3 Mini Landscapes of Marin County

 View of Pt. Reyes Station from the tidal flats.  5x7 oil on linen.

New Oil Paintings September/October

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1.  Playing in Mud at the Estero 18x24x1.5 oil on stretched canvas.  

2.  Parts 2 if 5 of a 5x7 oil-on-linen mini landscape series:  

    a)  Northern California Quarry & Hills

    b)  Winding Road to Mustard Fields

The Taylor Twins at Limantour Beach

 Little 8x10 oil on linen.

Young E.A.: Two Versions Animated

 8x10 Oil on Linen painting of my father, the late, great, E.A. Autrey, before he was my father.  I painted two versions, although only the last version physically remains.  The version painted over exists now only in the digital realm.

Playing in the Surf Part Deux

 Another new oil painting.  This one oil on linen 10x8.  I finally painted in the water.  

Another take on a photo taken by E.A. Autrey in 1960 (see below), juxtaposed with a more recent beach photo taken by me at South Beach in Pt. Reyes National seashore

Stranded

Oil on hand-stretched Belgian 66J linen 28x22.  Image of the blonde based on a photo snapped on a road trip in Morocco around 1969 or 1970 when surfer friend picked me up from my pension in Spain with his VW and surf board and we travelled down to Rabat.  Interesting trip!  Background is from a more recent visit to New Mexico - the countryside where Georgia O'Keefe liked to paint.  Beautiful skies. 

Salem Hibiscus

 Oil on Linen 16x20.  Old Holland Oil paint over white oil ground over Pinkish Beige Imprimatura.  Rustic appearance.  

Three Sea Gulls

"I want what he has," said Jonathan Seagull to his friend.

New oil painting 18" x 48"

Something New

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New oil on linen 18" x 48"  "Solana Beach Egret"

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11" x 14" pencil sketch on 400 series Mixed Media paper
Homework assignment #1 done for Chester Arnold's drawing & composition class
"RoShamBo" (Rock, Paper, Scissors)

Roman Arch Pink Tree

Here is a recent 28" x 22" oil on stretched linen painting.  I first went to Spain in 1969, for my junior year abroad at UCSD.  When I wasn't studying at the University of Madrid,  we took field trips and/or I hitchhiked all over the country.  I took this picture somewhere in Spain on one of my trips - although I remember nothing about it.  By googling "roman arch," I found another more recent photo of this same scene indicating it is in the village of Medinacelli in central Spain.   Looking for new material to paint last month, I rediscovered my old slide, added a scan of a beautiful pink tree watercolor painted by Samuel Palmer in 1829 called "In a Shoreham Garden," and did a few other manipulations in Photoshop CS5 as a guide.  My perspective is a bit off but the new painting is quite soothing in a fantastical kind of way - and it brings back nice memories.