A Painting a Day - Early Evening

Photo: Early Evening, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Heber Dusk

Photo: Heber Dusk, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Heber Glow

Photo: Heber Glow, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Mt. Diablo Trail

Photo: Mt. Diablo Trail, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - California & Sansome

Photo: California & Sansome, 5"x7", oil on panel, SOLD

A Painting a Day - Bodega Mist

Photo: Bodega Mist, 5"x7", oil on panel, SOLD

A Painting a Day - Heber Stream

Photo: Heber Stream, 5"x7", oil on panel, SOLD

A Painting a Day - Duboce Sky

Photo: Duboce Sky, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Bodega Pine

Photo: Bodega Pine, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Sonoma Grazing

Photo: Sonoma Grazing, 5"x7", oil on panel, SOLD

A Painting a Day - Southern Sonoma

Photo: Southern Sonoma, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

A Painting a Day - Bodega Highway

Photo: Bodega Highway, 5"x7", oil on panel, $280 Buy Now

Open Studios 2006

I will be participating in this years San Francisco Open Studios show October 13-15. Check out the Belcher Artists for more information.


Photo: Sonoma Hills, 5"x7", oil on panel, SOLD

David Lenz

Photo: Cold Front 9 1/4" x 11" oil on board 2002

April Gornik - Part 2

Photo: Light on Water, 2005, Oil on linen, 32" x 24"

April Gornik

Photo: Storm Above Sea, 2005, Oil on linen, 80" x 71"

Gerhard Richter

I saw this painting at the small private gallery that the MOMA operates out of the 1st floor of the Gap Corporate building here in San Francisco. I think the only way you can see it is if you have a willing Gap Corporate employee as your escort. Anyway, it's my favorite Richter painting, and breathtaking in person.

Photo: Wiesental, 90 cm x 95 cm, oil on canvas

Gina & Matt

I'm looking for something and it's not here, Acrylic on Canvas

Alex Kanevsky

Photos found here.

Interview with Alex by Vivianite found here.

Francis Livingston

The Path Between, oil on board, 40 x 20 inches

Now showing at the Thomas Reynolds Gallery in San Francisco

Audrey Kawasaki prints

Audrey Kawasaki has some new prints available.

Absolutely amazing!

Robert Coombs Wins Best of Show

"Almost Sundown", Oil on Linen, 22" x 11"

When I was at Utah State Robert Coombs was the one guy that should have been showing at galleries instead sitting in class. Now he's taken home the $15,000, Best of Show Award, at the 2006 Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition. (Tony Pro won this award last year.)


"First Leaves of Autumn", Oil on Raymar Panel, 16" x 11"

Robert was also awarded the $10,000 Grand Prize at the Raymar's First Annual Fine Art Competition for the painting shown above.

Congratulations Robert!

Michael Stack

Michael Stack
Originally uploaded by paulferney.

Terry Miura

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock
Originally uploaded by paulferney.

Get creative and find your inner "Pollock". Create your own.

Kate Starling

Kate Starling
Originally uploaded by paulferney.

Her work reminds me of Randall Sexton. See more of her work at her Web site.

Douglas Fryer

Douglas Fryer
Originally uploaded by paulferney.

Sonoma Plein Air 2006

I will be participating in the Sonoma Plein Air event from Sept. 4th - 9th.

Photo: Sonoma Plein Air 2005 Winner - Kim Fancher Lordier

Belcher Artists Spring Show, San Francisco

Living in the Sunset, Oil on panel, 11" x 14".

The Spring Show at the Belcher Studios is coming up on May 12th, 13th, and 14th. Here's one of the small pieces that I will submit.

LDS Church Museum 7th International Art Competition

Let Us All Press On, 24" x 36", oil on linen

Opening today is the 7th Internation Art Competition at the LDS Church Museum. I wish I was in Salt Lake so I could go to it tonight! The exhibit will be up until this fall.

I was pretty excited when I found out that my painting had been juried in. If anyone goes to the show, let me know where they have hung it...

Down to the wire...

Foothill Farmland, 24" x 30", oil on linen

Here's another new piece that will be part of the April show at the Apple Frame Gallery!

Spring Show 2006

Signs of Autumn, 20" x 20", oil on linen

I am getting ready for a one man show at the Apple Frame Gallery in April. Here's one of my new pieces. The opening will be on 4/21. Hope to see you there!

Joseph Alleman - New works

White Ridge, Watercolor on Paper, 30" x 20", SOLD

Joseph Alleman is part of a Three Man Show opening on March 31st, at the Taminah Gallery.

Joseph Lorusso

Sunday Afternoon

Photo: Sunday Afternoon, 24" x 24", Oil,$3,500

Regulars At Lucky's

Photo: Regulars At Lucky's, 24" x 26", Oil, $4,450

Russell Chatham

Amazing.

Photo: Haystack, 22 x 27.5, Lithograph, $2,400

Peter Campbell

Great tonalist.

Photo: San Juan Evening, 32"h x 28"w, Oil on Panel, $4,500

Paul Davis is my Hero

His work is amazing, he's an excellent teacher, and he's actually a pretty decent guy.

Paul Davis and David Dornan teach workshops during the summer in Helperm, Utah. Their 2006 schedule is out at HelperWorkshops.com. See you there :)

Kevin Bean

Yesterday

The SFMOMA is having a great show in March called "Finding the Figure". While looking up more images by Dave Balona I stumbled across the work of Kevin Bean at the Charles Campbell Gallery here in San Francisco. His paintings reminds me of the photo albums that everyone has tucked away in a box someplace safe.

Jamie Kirland

Mark Ryden

Abraham Lincoln is fascinating, and Mark Ryden does a good job with his portrait.

Tony Pro

Tony Pro

Another find on Southwestart.com, Tony Pro has been making a name for himself with top showings at several national shows.

William Salit

Chimeras of Withdrawal No. 2

I've been working in William's studio for a few months now and am starting to wonder how I ever survived without it.

Thanks for the space William.

Internet Tip #1: Find more sites that you love

OK, so you've found a site that you really, really love. You check it everyday and still can't seem to get enough. How do you find related sites that offer up the same type of content?

One way to do it is to search for all the sites that link directly to the site that you're so fond of...

Say you like a design blog called, designsponge.blogspot.com. If you type in "link:designsponge.blogspot.com" into any search engine, it will return all the sites it found that link to that site. You can also go to Marketleap and use their link popularity check tool and they will look up your site in several different search engines at once, and rank your site next to other sites so you can tell how "popular" it is. When I searched designsponge.blogspot.com on Marketleap's tool, it showed that it's linked to by over 250,000 sites. More than Coke.com and MarthaStewart.com and just a little less than eTrade.com and Napster.com. Amazing huh!

Southwest art

I just got the February issue of Southwest Art. Lots of good landscapes in this issue. Two artists that caught my attention are Kathryn Altus and Ken Auster (shown in the previous posts). I like that if you see something or someone that looks interesting in any magazine, that it's so easy to look them up online and see more of their work.

Ken Auster

Ken Auster
Check out his site.

Kathryn Altus

Bay

Check out here site.

See more photography

Pulpo

Photoblogs.org links to an endless amount of photography.

Photo by Pulpo.

Stock Schlueter

Johnson Ranch, 24" x 56"

It's a shame that I live in San Francisco and have only been to the John Pence Gallery once this last year. Here's one of the artist they represent: Stock Schlueter.

Bruce Everett

Las Virgenes Valley, oil on canvas, 156"x 120".



I have been going through some old issues of New American Paintings and Bruce Everett's work caught my attention. Great stuff.