Sutter Creek Art & Christmas

"Shadowy Visions" is one of my newest landscapes.  It will be hanging at Sutter Creek Gallery in December along with some other new work on which I have been working these past few months.

I would love it if my "peeps" would join me next Saturday from 3 to 6pm at the gallery for a reception given in my honor.  I am the December Artist of the Month and for the 1st Saturday reception we will have wine and Hors D'Oeuvres.  It's free to come and look and enjoy, and I will be so happy seeing everybody.

The same weekend the whole town of Sutter Creek will be decorated and celebrating their annual Old Fashioned Christmas Open House Celebration.  You will be able to enjoy the annual Old Fashioned Christmas Open House Celebration with free carriage rides earlier in the day, shops will be open late and at 11am Father Christmas and other Dickens Characters will be strolling Main Street.  Go to www.suttercreek.org for more information.

I hope to see y'all.

Long and Winding

This has been signed.  I love painting roads, trails, outdoor ways of going somewhere.  For me, it's escape or maybe a way to the new adventure.

 I am never happier than when I am able to control my own situation, be the leader, do my own plan and then follow through with that plan to conclusion.  If I sometimes follow another person's plan, it is my choice for that moment because it fits in to my life and I respect that person enough.

This painting is part of that story, the story of not being afraid of discovery, of taking the trail that is unknown and being open to new emotions and experiences.  Of course it's always about the journey, the long and winding journey.  Yes?

Vineyard Schminyard!

Alrighty then, working on my larger landscape of a vineyard.  Here's my second day's work on this painting.  Got my colors in and am bouncing around the canvas looking for continuity and find a lack of same as it almost looks like two paintings; the vineyard in the forefront, then the hilly background. Next time will be working on detail and adding colors everywhere to marry the forefront to the background.

Softer edges in the background will also help keep the eye forward if that is the goal, which it must be since the color is there...yes?  Wow, mulling these decisions is tiring.  Not to mention my breathing thing...holding my breath through this whole critique process is not good for the soul.

Ok, going outside to talk to the plants now.  A couple are crying out for water...I'm going to get some breathing in while I we talk.