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Isn't it still summer? Not according to my painting subjects, and here are some easel snapshots (sorry about the color) of recent work on my early autumn plein air piece: "Fallen toward Fall" 24 x 36 oil painting - in progress.
This plein air painting of our backyard took 3 summers, when "traffic" is at its heaviest. I resonate with the poem by Antonio Machado where he so beautifully expressed a real love for: "little things." This became an inspiration I couldn't resist: "Evening Traffic" 18 x 24 oil painting.
It was so good to spend sunny summer afternoons with this plein air painting again. I reworked a fair bit of the water, and will really look forward to seeing it all again next year: "Beside Restful Waters" 24 x 36 oil painting - in progress.
Here is how far my summer midday plein air piece got for this year, before its season wound down in late August: "Ahh, Shhhhhummerrr" 30 x 48 oil painting - in progress.
I got a new suunny morning plein air piece started this summer, and here is how far it got for the season: "With the Beech Family" 40 x 24 oil painting - in progress.
This piece was a hybrid, in that the lower right was painted from life, and the upper left in the studio. I do my best to reconcile these two halves of my painting life, and this piece was a good walk across that bridge: "Toward" 7 x 10 oil painting.
This painting was inspired by a golden moment of our daughter watching my mother-in-law repair a homemade stuffy, or "peluche," that was a gift. We were visiting the family village in the north of Spain, where the kitchen was not built on a rectangle: "Surgery" 16 x 20 oil painting.
