What I'm Painting now

Recently I saw a good photo in the Sacramento Bee of Mt.Hood and the Oregon countryside. It was by Christopher Reynolds of the LA Times. I e-mailed him and asked for permission to paint his photograph. He was very accommodating and gave permission. He sent me a good copy to download and I started it yesterday. I am doing it on an 18x 24 canvas, this is larger than I have been doing lately but this is a great expansive landscape.

I finished an 11 x 14 oil of Lake Tahoe from a photo I took last July. Here in Lincoln we are getting ready for our 6th annual Fine Arts Show, and the Lake Tahoe painting is going in along with "Yosemite in Winter" and "Normandy Village"

Getting Started!

This is my first blog. We had friends over for dinner last night and I used recipes that were easy to prepare ahead of time; shrimp cocktail (they didn't eat salads) and Chicken Tetrazzini - chicken with pasta in a cream sauce, topped with cheese and baked. Yummy! Took me a couple of hours in the afternoon and I was able to relax with our guests before dinner.