Fall Day, oil 6" x 6"

 Fall to Winter, oil 8" x 8"

Winter Trees, oil 4" x 7"

Experimenting with palette knife painting, so much fun!  It's very sculptural, pushing and carving shapes into the paint, creating patterns and layers, very like the layers of bare branches seen in the winter landscape.

Spring

Tabor Pink and White 9" x 12" on panel

It is still officially winter, but everything in nature around Portland thinks it's Spring.  Flowers are

blooming everywhere, some of the cherry trees blossoms have already been blown away by wind and rain, but luckily I've had time to paint plein air at Mt. Tabor Park while the trees were in bloom.  I liked the two trees together, one pink, one white, like two ballerinas.  It felt great to paint outside!

Tabor Day

Last Sunday I participated in Tabor Day, the one year anniversary block party for Songbird Cafe.  There was music, food and art to raise funds for the Friends of Mt. Tabor Park.  I set up my exhibit of paintings along with artist friend Celeste Bergin, and other friends came to visit.  We also set up easels to demonstrate painting.  I brought a photo taken at Powell Butte last summer on a hazy day, and completed this 11 x 14"oil painting and started another.  Great fun!