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The best landscape painting I did on my weekly outdoor painting trip with Court Jones at the San Diego Mission
11x14
oil on canvas
(Court helped a little.)
I'm not good at painting the trees. So I got me a book and started practicing.
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3x4 oil on massonite
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Study of an Elizabeth Tolley Painting
8x12 oil on massonite
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Last year I did a little painting in Balboa park of a tree in watercolor. I didn't now how to mix colors back then. After doing a few studies in oil and practicing more with watercolor I painted over it. Adding more cools in the darks and bumping up the warms in the light. Before I started it had a 3 values.
5x8 on Watercolor paper