~ " Bennett Valley Pond " ~

Here's a photo of the finished work that I've decided to title: " Bennett Valley Pond " ~ 28" x 28" ~ oil on canvas ~ 2013 ~
This will be one of my entrees in the Marin County Fair Fine Art Competition that will be juried tomorrow. (June 22, 2013) at the Marin Center Fairgrounds in San Rafael, California.
It represents many hours of painting...

Adding Geese

I decided to add a pair of Canada Geese to the painting of the small pond in the vineyards off Bennett Valley Road near Santa Rosa, California that I've been working on. I still have a ways to go, but I'm nearing the finish for sure. This is oil on canvas ~ 28" x 28" ~
                            Mahalo for stopping in,
                                                        Timo

More details...

Nearing the finish on this new one in progress..."Little Bennett Valley Pond" ~ oil on canvas ~ 28" x 28" ~ 2013 ~           Timo

The Little Pond

Adding strokes of the essencial colors starts bringing this painting of a small vineyard pond into focus. Every touch of pigment brings it a little closer to reading as real in your mind's eye. Creating the illusion of looking into a scene rather than at it...
  Mahalo for your interest.            Timo

Fun start!

I started this fun new painting Wednesday while I was working at The ARThouse Gallery in Glen Ellen, California. It's a 28" square canvas that I built myself. Stay tuned for the process in progress...
     Aloha, Timo

Tilted Angle of View

              I started a new painting yesterday while I was working at the ARThouse Gallery in Glen Ellen, California.  It is a larger version of a little 8" x 10" that I did a number of years ago of a very tilted angle of view looking down a grassy bluff above a rocky beach on our sonoma coast in the last golden orange light before sunset.
              No name for it yet...It is on a 22" x 28" stretched canvas, but not one that I built myself.
              The toning and underpainting that you see here was done in about 2 hours.
              Pigments used so far are: Titanium White, Permanent Rose, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Sap Green, Alizerine Crimson and Ultramarine Blue.
              Mahalo for stopping in!
              Timo

" Insistant Surf "

       I know... I haven't made a blog entry for well over a month, but I'll try to catch up a bit on at least the ART part of my life since my last blog-in.  Beginning with this commissioned seascape that I just finished about a week ago. It was a lager version of an old painting that was done in the '90s when I was living in Jenner. The original work only had one shorebird, but the client wanted me to add three more because they have four children. We also changed the colorscheme slightly for this larger (28" x 40") piece using a photo of another painting that was already hanging in the room where it was to be hung for reference. We are all very satisfied with the new version.
      Mahalo for stopping in today.
      Aloha, Timo

Still more on Sonoma Creek...

I'm getting very close to the finish of Sonoma Creek at this stage.

More on Sonoma Creek

I'm still working on this painting of Sonoma Creek...I just took a little time off for the Holiday. So here's the current state of progress on it. It's slowly coming into focus here and there. Quite a lot more painting will be required before I can call this one done.
       Mahalo for checking in...
       Aloha Ohana,
             Timo

Patience & Persistance

       A lot of my painting experience is about patience and persistance. As I apply more and more strokes and daubs of these pigments that I mix with a mixture of various oils and solvent, I have a vision , not just of the final image I believe will result from all these actions but of the process that will inevitably bring me there if I am patient and persistant in my work.
       Many more hours of painting lie ahead to bring this somewhat complex composition of Sonoma Creek into focus.
      Mahalo for stopping by.
      Aloha, Timo

More time & paint...

Another three hour session of painting has brought us to this juncture. I really enjoy watching a picture like this one as it progresses. It begins to take on a life of it's own as the pigments and strokes accumulate. I'm using a full sheet (8 1/2" x 11") paper print of the photo I took a few weeks back on a walk along Warm Springs Road near Kenwood, California as my reference.
   Mahalo for checking in...  Live in Joy Today!
   Aloha, Timo

Sonoma Creek taking shape.

A few more hours of painting today have advanced the image of Sonoma Creek that I started a couple of days ago. I like where this one is going.
       Mahalo for stopping by...
           Aloha, Timo

More Paint...

Another two hour painting session has brought it to this state. As I fill in the blank spaces with color, the various elements start becoming identifiable. Wood, Rock, Leaf, Water...

Starting Sonoma Creek

         I began doing a new painting yesterday of Sonoma Creek just off Warm Springs Road near Kenwood. This is the results of the first two hour session of painting. The canvas is a 24" x 36" that I built myself.