Paint Out

This week, I'm up on beautiful Samish Island for the Northwest Watercolor Society's painting retreat called PAINT OUT.  It's a great event, about 50 watercolorists all together in one large room painting up a storm.  We're fed great food, stay in rustic cabins, and enjoy the inspiration, the amazing setting, and camaraderie.

Also this week I became an official signature member of the NWWS!!!! It's a wonderful honor.

My time here is usually spent painting landscapes, but my goal for these precious days is to finish up and add final touches to my final Gabriel Prize paintings.

See the location and the progress painting below...

4 of the 5 sequence paintings of the gardens at Vaux le Vicomte, in progress...more to do!

A beautiful day, the view out the window toward the bay and Mt. Baker

Such a beautiful landscape here, this will likely become a future painting.  This was taken out the window on
the passenger side while the car was moving!

Northwest Watercolor Society show opens this week

Toward Yakima 2013

This Thursday, April 25, from 6:30-8pm,

the Northwest Watercolor Society's Open International Exhibition opens.

I am honored to have had a painting selected for this show, now my 3rd, so I finally qualify to become a signature member!

The show will be open from April 15 to May 31 at the Mercer View Gallery, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island, WA 98040

The work that was accepted in the show is one of a series of landscapes I am painting, all based on snapshots from moving cars or trains.  I love that line in the distance along the horizon.

This one I call Toward Yakima, and it is for sale in case anyone is interested!