Wade in Ship of Fools, portrait,oil on canvas pad,20x16,price$NFS

This is the portrait I did of Wade last night in his Ship of Fools outfit. He's a great supporter of the local arts.It was fun to paint him. The painting is still too wet to get a good image.Enjoy

Sail Boat Racing in the Bay,seascape,oil on canvas,20x24,price$995

A change from the portraits. This is a sail boat race that we see every week in our Bellingham Bay. I was thinking of putting this and another one I painted a couple of weeks ago in a June show. But now I think I will put smaller ones in that show.

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Liz,portrait,oil on canvas pad,16x12,priceNFS

One more painting of a Student model. Also a painting that I have been working on for a show.Men of the Sea, 12x9,oil on canvas.Also a couple of drawings that I did last week of my son Mike after he shaved off his beard. enjoy.

Lessa,portrait,oil on canvas pad,16x12,priceNFS

One more portrait from my collection of Tuesday night paintings of our models. This one is of Lessa. A very fair redhead. yesterdays post was a Daily Paintworks pick. www.dailypaintworks.com See more of my work there in my on line gallery.

Portrait of a Model,portrait,oil on canvas pad,16x12,priceNFS

This painting of a model is one of my favorite. I will be giving a portrait workshop in mid June. So I thought I better post more portraits.Email me if you are interested.

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Jen,portrait,oil on canvas pad,16x12,PriceNFS

This is a oil painting sketch of Jen. In this painting Jen does not have dreadlocks. I think this is the forth painting I have done of her. Enjoy

Autumn Dreadlocks for Jen,portrait,oil on canvas pad,16x12,priceNFS

This is another oil sketch of Jen.

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Jen Again Dreadlocks,portrait,oil on pad,16x12,PriceNFS

I am putting up some portraits of Jen and other models over the next few days. These portrait sketches I have painted in our Tuesday night group.

Boeman State Park Beachwood,landscape,oil on canvas,12x9,price$600

Today I painted this State Park painting with a painting knife.

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Early Tulips,Landscape,oil on canvas,24x18,priceNFS

This is a painting of tulips and Poplar trees in Skagit County, Washington. I was very busy getting ready for a big show today. This painting will be in the show. I have it priced at $1,200. for the show.

Island Boating,seascape,oil on canvas,24x30,priceNFS

I have been on my blog "Art Every Day" for a year and a day with this last post. Today's painting is of boats in a cove along side one of the Island here in Washington State. The painting is going into a four month show called "Summer" at our local Hospital. Enjoy

Fairhaven Boat Race,Seascape,oil on canvas,24x30,Price,NFS

This is another painting I did today for the show coming up in June. I had a lot of fun painting this one fast even though it was large. Enjoy

Fairhaven Morning, Oil on Canvas, 9x12,PriceNFS

This painting is going into a show in June. It is of an early morning in Fairhaven.

Summer Shops,Landscape,oil on canvas,10x8,price$450

This is a painting I did of Main Street in Anacortes, Washington. I am almost finished with the painting of Fairhaven for the June show "Gota love Fairhaven"

Flower Riot,still life,oil, 8x10,price$200

I couldn't finish the painting I was working on today. I put this painting up a couple of days ago and up today.

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Male Model,portrait,oil,16x12,priceNFS

This is one of the portraits I paint with a group of local artist here in our town. I am excited and honors to have the other painting of Jen with Dread locks going into A Portrait Society Show in the Fountainhead Gallery of Seattle this June. Enjoy

Flower Burst,still life,oil on canvas 11x14,price$375

Same one as yesterday. A painting of flowers I reworked. Also another painting of flowers I worked over,Flower Riot.

Flower Burst,still life,oil on canvas 11x14,price$375

Sunday's painting of the geraniums didn't get onto the Dailypaintworks website www.dailypaintworks.com/‎. I don't know why. Today's painting is one I reworked. Also: Richeson 75 Landcsape, Seascape & Architecture Exhibition: I was happy and honored to hear a painting of mine, a painting I demoed for my workshop last month, was accepted into this year's Richeson international exhibition. Painting is "View of Mt. Baker from Black Mountain". 3 more paintings I did received a meritorious award. The one painting goes to the show in Wisconsin. All will be on line in May.

Red Geranium in Pot,still life, oil painting on canvas,10x8,price$250

This is the geranium painting I did a couple of days ago. My computer in my studio is working fine again so I can up load this.

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Safe Harbor,Seascape,oil on canvas,40x30,Price,NFS

This large painting is one of many that will be going into a show this summer. My studio computer is not working at the moment. So I'm putting this painting up that is on my home computer. It is a painting of our beautiful Islands here in Washington State.Enjoy.

Freesia flowers,still life,oil on canvas,16x12,price350

This is not the geraniums I painted yesterday. This is a painting I fixed today. I changed the background to blue from red. I like it a lot more this way.It pops. I spent most of the afternoon finding 40+ paintings for an upcoming show.

Lisa's Red Lips,Portrait, oil,16x12,price,NFS

This is the painting I did last night of our model Lisa. She was back to pose for us.Tomorrow I will put up the red geranium painting that I did today.

The River Valley,landscape,oil,9x12,price$300

This is a painting I did of the Nooksack River Valley near where we live. I used a painting knife.

Winter Lake,Landscape,Oil,9x12,Price$400

This is the painting I did on Saturday of Lake Whatcom in winter. It was too wet then to get a good photo.Today's painting will go up tomorrow. It is of the river valley.

Also, I will have my painting of Mt.Baker View from Black mountain in The Richeson international Landscape, seascape, and Architecture show in June. The other 3 paintings will published in their book of the show.

California Dreaming,landscape,oil on canvas,16x20,price$800

This is a painting I did of a beach in California near Petaluma.

Yellow Spring Fields,landscape,oil on canvas,9x11,price$450

This is a painting of daffodil fields of Skagit County in the Spring

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Island View through the Trees,landscape,oil on canvas,40x30,Price$1000

This is a large painting of our view of the Islands from Chuckanut drive.The painting I did today was so wet it was hard to photo but I will put it up too.It is a painting of Lake Whatcom.

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Winter on Whatcom Lake,landscape,oil on canvas,8x8,price$300

We spent Christmas day with friends on Whatcom Lake. I have wanted to paint this painting since that day.I used a painting knife for this painting.enjoy.

Day Lilies in Vase,still life,oil on canvas,10x8,price$200

It was such a sunny day today I had to be out side in the garden. Here is a painting of my Day lilies that will be blooming soon.

View from Stuart Mountain,landscape,oil on canvas,9x12,price$450

This is a painting I did from one of our local mountains looking back towards the bay,over our city of Bellingham.