Me painting

A few photos of me painting from one of my recent painting excursions.

Pioneer Square Starbucks

Aaron Crayne has selection of new works hanging at the Pioneer Square Starbucks in Seattle WA now through the end of July, 2008.

Pioneer Square
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102 First Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98104

*Images of the show*

Evelyn Nagley Memorial Award

One of my paintings at the Allied Arts exhibition has won the Evelyn Nagley Memorial Award.

Broadway Market Haystack Paintings

Aaron Crayne has selected a small series of my haystack paintings on view at the Broadway Market, the work will be available for viewing April 12 through May 31, 2008.

Broadway Market
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401 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102

*Images of the show*

two paintings in a juried show

Two of Aaron’s paintings were chosen to be shown in the annual juried exhibition at the Allied Arts Association in Richland WA.

Exhibition starts April 01, 2008 through May 02, 2008.

Allied Arts
89 Lee Blvd
Richland WA 99352
(509) 943-9815

**The two paintings**

**update**

at the exhibition

Showing at the Broadway Market

I will be showing a series of haystack paintings at the Broadway Market, the work will be available for viewing starting April 12, 2008.

Broadway Market
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401 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102

farm rows

Another washed out snap shot of this water color study. Working through ideas.

rain cloud

Windy

Today is very windy, 20+mph, I didn’t plan on starting any oil paintings today because of the wind, but I did anyway. I used a big three legged easel with my water color bag full of stuff drapped over the back, then I took the box of snow chains out of the pickup and tied it to the legs of the easel (about 50lbs of weight total). After all that the easel finally stayed on the ground. But towards the end it was blowing so hard that the wind was blowing the mineral spirits out of the can I had it in, plus it was blowing other things around, so I packed up.

Over all, it has been less then a week since I came out to do some painting, and I have three oil paintings underway, two of them are 24×30 and one 24×36, about 6 water color paintings, and about 10 water color studies. Not a bad start, not as much as I had hopped but a good start.

study of irrigation pipes

Quick study, one of many, of some irrigation pipes. There is a lot more color and texture in the study, it washed out when I snapped the photo and I was irritated enough while painting today and I didn’t feel like re-shooting it. I have started several new oil paintings in the same area dealing with this subject.