Coupling

Oil on linen on panel, 9 x 12 in. Available at the Clymer Museum of Art

This painting is based on the photo I took by Lake Chelan in Washington a few years ago. Lately, I'm interested in simplifying the composition. For this piece, I started out with other geese around this couple, then I eliminated those extra geese. It is like composing a Haiku, rather than writing a long poem.

Steller's Jay on the Rock

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I painted this in Chelan. It was nice weather, but the wind condition was not ideal for hang gliding from the Butte. So, we were hanging out at the camp site in the morning. We saw some Steller's Jays around a big rock. I happend to have a printed photo of a Steller's Jay along with my painting gear, so I used it as a reference to paint the bird, then painted the landscape en plein air for the background.