Category: 12 x 16 inches

  • Paintings from Pine Creek: Issue 3

    18 x 24″, oil on Masonite, 2012 It was a long and fraught winter, with annoying bouts of vertigo that often stopped me completely. Earlier, I had committed to a charity auction, so most of my upright time was spent getting a small end table painted and presentable for the Community Warehouse Chair Affair. However,…

  • Paintings from Pine Creek, Second Issue

    It’s now November and I have left the north-central woods of Pine Creek, had a brief visit with relatives  in Lancaster County, spent four days in Philadelphia, mostly at the new Barnes Museum, and am now back in Portland Oregon. Here’s some links to my non-painting adventures: the Saga; the Crick; the hike up Gamble…

  • The Figure in the Landscape: Summer 2012

    I just completed a 2-week, six-day workshop on the figure in landscape. I have decided that this year I will concentrate on painting figures and faces, so in June, I reviewed portraiture with Jeff Burke at Hipbone studio (see the previous post). And in July,  I took this workshop. Our schedule was fairly routine: We…

  • PSF Residency: Post #4

    These posts come slow and slower. I hope not to have to record slowest. I spent one day down on the res last week. I did one plein air painting. The temperature hovered at about 44 degrees, but the sun mostly shone. In that plein air day, I began the study of the buildings that…

  • Wonky PDX Cityscapes — a Review by Sam Underwood

    [Ed. note: The following are the images from and a commentary about the wonky cityscapes exhibit shown at the Full Circle Gallery, May, 2011. Sam Underwood is a Portland-born, long-time observer of the city as well as an intelligent observer of paintings. Disclaimer: he’s also related to me. The paintings have been grouped by the…

  • It Was A Dark and Stormy Day: Day 28, Nov 28, 2009

    Well, it wasn’t exactly dark — just amazingly, wondrously, hideously, wildly stormy. I’d add more adjectives, but Jer won’t let me. It was also teeth chattering cold, but I couldn’t resist having the big barn doors open to watch the sky and desert as the storms came and went. I was at the Barn at…

  • Take Brush, Put to Canvas: Day 4, Nov. 4, 2009

    I went altogether too long without painting. Sketching doesn’t substitute. Thinking isn’t adequate. Looking at scenery only makes one’s fingers twitch. So today I painted. Not well, not finished, but I got that brush in hand: First I did an acrylic-painted sketch on some sketching paper I taped together (Note to self — there is…

  • Diary of a Residency, days 41 & 42, March 29, 2009. The End

    The final day at the Goldwell Open Air Museum’s Workspace Artist in residency: From this: To this: And this: And this: And this: I took almost no photos the last two days; during exhibits I always think I will take lots and then, as I’m talking and greeting and hugging, I forget. I even forgot…

  • Diary of a residency, Day 37, March 24, 2009

    I got back to painting today. And it went well. It was a bit chilly and windy this morning, but when the time to paint comes, it comes. And sometimes it isn’t as bad as one imagines. I went off with my now-ratty painting coat and gloves, heading for the Beatty Cut-off road to Death…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 22, March 09, 2009

    As usual, I spent the day at the Red Barn. Carrie Radomski showed up at 4:30 pm. She’s one  of the new owners of the Lost River Trading Co; George is the other half. And they’ve changed the name legally to the Beatty Mercantile, which is what we want to call it anyway. She and…