Just a day at the beach on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Have been doing some studies of pears to learn to create form and handle the light.

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My art home on the web is Just Plain Art and it was born on a rainy Friday afternoon, March 31, 2006 . I was inspired to explore doing a blog by the art quilters in the Pointless Sisters Art Quilt Group in Sonoma County. I'm in Northern California wine country and am capturing the beauty of my rural home in my paintings and art quilts.
This blog is more about what I see than what I write. Lots of photos of my work and some comments about my art and life.
This is one of my first painting of a cabin near the village of Freestone in Sonoma County. After this I continued to paint trees and landscapes and eventually found my way to a Petaluma artist, Camille Przewodek. Working with a master colorist and landscape painter has convinced me that I want to capture the uniqueness of my world in my art work.


Looking out the windows of my hillside home is like living in a tree house. The oak forest around me captures the light and provides a canopy over my head when I explore my little hillside. These trees and hills have become a repeated theme in my work on canvas and in fabric.




Painted this tree from the window of my motel apartment in Fort Bragg in June. Anyone who has spent the summer on the coast of Northern California will know why I painted this from inside my room. Brrr.


Check out this "Tribute to Van Gogh" which is an acrylic color study that I did in my color class at Santa Rosa Junior College. Great class for getting the basics of color with lots of color painting exercise. The instructor was an artist from San Francisco, Sondra Cohen.











Recently I have used the pallette knife to create some texture in my studies. This Dry Creek Styker Vineyard picture is rough, but captures some of the beauty of Sonoma County wine country.














Now for a switch to Art Quilts. My fishy beginnings were from a Diana Roberts pattern she used to teach a Technique Sharing Workshop at the Santa Rosa Quilt Guild.














Another of Diana's patterns and workshops for a fabric landscape with those warm colors that I love!