Boy, time is sure flying by and I am just not finding time to paint.  Before Fish Fest we took off to go skiing “one last time” but this has happened at least twice since the snow just keeps on coming in Tahoe. And it was nice spring skiing! I did sketch some even while sitting in the sun at Sugar Bowl…a kind man asked if he should move so as to not ruin my view. Alas, had to tell him that I was sketching from my head. As usual I had conjured up a scene that was bouncing around and needed to get out. But I did do one of the mountain too…here it is. The other one I have to keep to myself until I can get it on a canvas. I am just too excited about it to reveal the sketches. Might pan out, might not.  Since I have been missing my daily posts, here are a couple of other sketches…soon to become paintings if I have anything to say about it.

more to follow.

The 37th Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Festival is Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18 from 10am- 5pm in Westside Park. www.bbfishfest.org This has always been a fun, community effort run by local volunteers to celebrate our hometown fishing fleet and their families. All proceeds go to fund our local elementary school, the BB Fire Department, the BB Grange, Community Center and other local organizations.  Salty dogs and regular dogs are welcomed, along with llamas and sea creatures. The boat building contest and race is a huge highlight along with the display of very cool rescue helicopters and of course the fishing fleet boat parade and blessing of the fleet.  My artwork was chosen for the poster this year. I was lucky enough to be selected in previous years; 2001 and 2005. In 2008 I was honored to design the poster using an old photograph from the Ames family archives…one of Bodega Bay’s proud fishing families.

Here is a little watercolor. Guess you can tell, if I am busy and/or its raining madly then I create a watercolor.  Tomorrow I’ll be traveling in a car for hours and I am already armed with my traveling set up. I will draw in the car, and paint later. I expect to see landscapes along the way to inspire me. I often try writing notes about color  but that rarely works, so I just have to remember them.  I did this watercolor with a water soluble pen…this can be tricky but if you are delicate with it you can get a cool effect.

Making up for my lack of a post yesterday, I made sure I painted today…this time that same  jar from Wednesday. This time I used bigger canvas and with a palette knife., still in oil.  The photo doesn’t do it justice since light was dim in my studio when taking photo tonight. But even so, the shape of the jar is off so I need to correct that, but I love all the whites.

It poured today….rained like it would never stop. So another day of  doing little watercolors in my house instead of my leaky studio.  Here are two of them.