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Hot off the Easel

Friday, August 8th, 2008

\"Sonoma Pasture\"
“Sonoma Pasture”, oil on canvas, 20×40″

A couple of weeks ago I was out painting, and just as I had to leave, the fog started to break up. I didn’t have time to do another painting, so I took some quick reference photos. This studio painting is the result, and I’m really happy with it. I don’t usually try to paint cows when I’m out and about as they tend to move around too much, so I enjoyed doing little cow portraits in this one.

And if you’re in the Bay Area, the Riverfront Art Gallery in Petaluma is having an opening for the new show this Saturday, August 9 starting at 5pm. Rumor has it there will be live music, and the featured artists put up a great show. I have a couple new pieces hanging, including some that I just got back from my gallery in Tennessee. Hope to see you there!

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Cows come home

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008


Here’s the final state of the cow print. I had a lot of difficulty with registration on this last color. In retrospect, I think this print would have been more successful if I’d used a separate block for the cows and tree branches. The mahogany plywood I used for the first couple colors to get the texture I wanted was difficult to print as a solid color without over-inking. I’m glad it’s done, and I think it turned out OK.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of painting the last few days, and I’ll be sharing those as soon as they’re dry enough to photograph.

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second state of the cows

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Here’s my progress this week. I finished carving the shadows and cows, and printed the next color in a transparent blue, so the shadows on the grass look green.

This is the block on the press inked and ready for the next piece of paper.


And here’s the print. I managed to proof the block and print the entire edition of 30 in three hours.

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