Fall's End & Zoom Class!

Still clinging to Fall over here, though it is looking more like…

THIS…

than THIS.

Oh well. Maybe next year? It looks like I’ll get plenty of practice painting snow this winter.

I bought a pumpkin and some decorative gourds at Green Bluff back in October and they are still hanging out on my studio table. I decided to tackle them in gouache on tan toned paper.

Swan gourd! And now for the Big Announcement-I’m going on ZOOM! Read more below.

ZOOM CLASS! I will be teaching a “Paint and Sip” class with the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture on November 19th, 5:30-8. Sadly, we aren’t able to do it in person so the Sip part will be BYOB, but it will be a live class where you paint along with me as we paint a scene of Riverfront park-the Clock tower and Pavilion.

There’s still time to sign up here!

House Portraits & Fall Dreams

Hi all! I’ve been making the best of our short fall, refusing to be rushed by the snow. I’ve bought apples and decorative gourds at Green Bluff, did some exploring on some family property up north, went to visit the Japanese Garden at Manito Park (sadly closed when I arrived) and did some fall baking. What have you been up to? Do you have a prized pumpkin bread recipe? I’m looking for a good one-and in my mind, that means chocolate, not nuts!

Painted at Siemer’s Farm up at Green Bluff a couple years ago on a warm October day. I love to visit them and Hansen’s Orchard and High Country Orchard for apples, apple cider, gourds and more.

Sketching my old Ford Explorer on the overgrown dirt road where family goes to hunt deer. Lots of interesting plants, especially around the old homestead and near the creek. We picked elderberries!

A small watercolor sketch of the brilliant colors in the Japanese Garden. It seems like they are closed for the season (or never opened?) which is a bummer because this is the best of the time of the year there, in my opinion. These next two paintings are recently completed house portraits.

This is the 2nd time I’ve painted this house and I’m still loving it. The commissioner has hired me to do a portrait of the house in each season. So far, we have done Spring and Summer and I’m looking forward to Fall and Winter.

A little brick house on the South Hill is going to be a wedding present.

I love painting portraits of people’s homes. If you would like to commission me to do a painting as a Christmas present (whether it is of a house, a pet, a garden, etc), please reach out to me before the 7th of November when I will have to start charging holiday prices.