Sunday Sketchbook: Figure

A rocking chair and model strike a pose together.

Purple Pillow

A Danae pose, but with a shower of spot light rather than shower of gold from Zeus.

Striped Scarf

Odalisques never seem to go out of fashion...

Sunday Sketchbook: Paris

We're enjoying a Truffaut mini-film festival here on Hollister Hill, and, on this gray Sunday, it has me missing Paris.

Vines in Sun, Provence

Painting in a Provencal vineyard, it's easy to understate, and difficult to exaggerate, the intensity and purity of the colors of plants, ground, cast shadows, and distant mountains.

Nate Sleeping

I'm in Washington, D.C. now, teaching, visiting family, and revisiting the past--including this painting of my son from a far away quiet afternoon.

Towards Luberons, Sunset

Another view towards the mountains behind Les Bassac, a scene I could paint over and over through changing times of day, weather, and seasons (if I could spend a year looking out over this valley) and never be bored.

Sunday Sketchbook: Provence

A page from Provence, with cerulean bed and cobalt door.

Memory: Provence Hollyhocks

A break again from winter weather here, thinking back to a sunny morning in France. I love how the intimate, almost interior feel of a village street opens out to the blue Luberon mountains.