Sunset, Casa Cosmos #2
Here’s a second painting of sunsets from Casa Cosmos. I wanted a bit more sky/light in this, and I found a great reference photo. Perhaps more to come…
Sunset, Casa Cosmos
I’ve started looking through my reference photos from our recent trip to Mexico, and found lots of sunset photos. They were really spectacular. It’s been a while since I’ve focused on this popular subject, so here goes. Enjoy!
“Chain of Lakes” revisited
There’s an area of Golden Gate Park called “The Chain of Lakes” that I’ve painted before. There are a couple of trees there (I still don’t know what variety, although they look like a conifer of some kind) that turn this wonderful combination of red, orange, and bright green in Fall. It’s like the tree is living in both Fall and Spring at the same time.
So, here’s another take on this seen. Enjoy!
“Chain of Lakes”, Fall (Golden Gate Park) - Oil on Linen - 12×9
Annual Holiday Sale
I’ve just launched my annual holiday clearance sale, with my lowest prices ever! Prices start at just $50. Visit my store at http://store.edterpening.com
This latest painting is included.
It was painted from a reference photo I took at Telluride, Colorado. The funicular in the valley floor takes skiers in Winter to the top of a local mountain. In summer, it’s a great place to visit. I was there last year as part of Telluride Plein Air. The photo was taken in late, late afternoon. I love the light during this time!
California Coastal Waves
Here’s a little 8×10″ study I did in my studio. I’m trying eBay now for sales, in addition to my regular store. Bidding starts low (just $40)!
Our Wedding Day!
No art, today: after almost 20 years together, Mike and I decided to make it official. Surrounded by friends and family (and CBS News, yikes!) we were married in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, where the same-sex marriage in California began.
Ed & Mike, Wedding Day, San Francisco City Hall
I hope you’ll join us in opposing Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples. We were interviewed by CBS News after (and they filmed the ceremony), so who knows, we could become the “Joe the Plumber” of same-sex married couples!
You’ll find our online wedding album here. Enjoy!
Sketches from NYC
While I was in NYC last week on business, I brought a simple pen and ink set. I draw using a fountain pen with Roting-Brown ink, and a watercolor brush with water to create the wash. I like to sketch people (for some reason, landscape less so). Parks are a good spot. People tend to sit a while, or even sleep, as one of my sketches show. There was also a parade that Monday (Columbus Day), so I was able to capture the crowd.
This woman was reading outside a restaurant, waiting for a table:
This guy fell asleep on a bench in Central Park:
Columbus Day Parade crowd:
Central Park trees:
Lastly, on the plane home, I drew small compositional studies based on reference photos on my iPhone:
Sea Cliff & Monterey Cypress
The Fall is the best time to paint the coast here as there’s usually not as much fog. I expected to paint an ocean view, but came across this view of a field and cliff (click for Google Map of the location, just north of Half Moon Bay). I liked the arrangement of shapes and colors, and the division of space. I kept it both realistic and a bit abstract so I get get the viewer to focus on this overall impression, and not focus on detail.
Morning at Crissy Field
Crissy Field is San Francisco’s newest major park, dedicated in 2001. Originally an airfield in 1919, the field was the site of one of the earliest army airfields on the west coast.
The western portion of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held here, including The Grand Prix. According the NPS website, “The winning auto reached the dizzying speed of 56 miles per hour.” In 1924, the first Dawn-to-Dusk transcontinental flight ended at Crissy Field, and the first flight from California to Hawaii started there.
This morning, the area was shrowded in fog (and high, cold winds–brrrr), so I kept color saturation low, and went for harmonious grays throughout. The building shown here is Crissy Field Center.
The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is no longer an art museum–as you might think–but a park and very fun hands-on science museum called the “Exploritorium” . The complex of buildings was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, just a few short years after the devastating 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire.The Exposition played an important role in art history. According to AskArt:
“One of the many lasting effects of the 1915 Exposition was the recognition, both international and national, it brought to artists and their work, and specifically to art activities in California. For the first time, visitors could see a representative exhibition of modern art from all the art centers of the world. In particular, they were exposed to the Impressionists and their use of color, spontanaety, and disregard for rigid scholastics. The stage was set, and seeds were sown for the development of American-style Impressionism, fauvism, expressionism, and all that was to follow.“
Christian Brinton, author of the book ‘Modern Artists’ and a visitor to the Exposition, wrote:
“The West has a great future in art. Indeed, I go so far as to say the future of art belongs to the West. It is inevitable. The freshness and vitality of your life, the stimulation of the environmental influences—these things must result in big things.”
This view is not the usual painted. I’ve painted the domed building before, so decided to try another view.
