Pretty ugly

Actually I find the California condor a really handsome bird. He's off to a juried show today. Acrylic, 11" x 14". I support various conservation programs and give 20% of any sale to the organization that supports the particular animal or bird I have painted. Any thing from this condor would go to Defenders of Wildlife. More time spent cleaning up the studio than painting.

Finish up

Finishing up public fun works. And a few of the "Alley Cats" are:

Silly painting for 1- 2 hrs in the morning and then the serious

Plein air contest

2 daily paintings. Participated in the Del Mar County Fair plein air competition with 56 others and won an award (donated award 4 tickets to the Contemporary Museum of Art in La Jolla) not the big $ but that's okay. I had the only cows. Everyone did wonderful scenes of the fairgrounds. Beautiful stuff. I'm very flattered to have won in this seasoned group of artists with my cows. The size is 16 x 20, acrylic . The little alpaca was humming away the majority of the time I was painting so I had to paint her (12 x 12) too.

Day 3

Just a little fellow painted, 10" x 8", painted on return from Tanzania, last month.
Still painting silly felines for a festival (limited by 90+ temps)

Day 2

Up at 5:30 and on the road, painting at 6 a.m. This is not the fine art, but a community project to develope a section of town into a art center. It's called "Alley Cat Art". Several businesses, resturants, newspaper, galleries (St. Madeline Sofies, Olaf Weighorst), frame shop: Silver Creek Gallery decided to gussy up the back of an alley for a weekend event. This will be the 3rd year and to be held July 11 and 12. The first year of the event I decorated a trash bin with jazz cats, believing it would simple be fun and go bye-bye. Surprise! Now I've been asked to paint alley cats from one end to the other because they know I believe in community spirite and am a wildlife artist. I can really make the wildlife wildly silly and get away with it. The temp yesterday was 102. Needless to say, I paint only for 1 - 2 hrs. then wash up for the next morning. I've done this daily for 5 days and will add photos.

Day one

Daily painter. Yes, that's me. I've been painting daily for some time now. Great, satellite problems with oading images. I'll just try back.