I’ll be an artist-in-residence at Yosemite in June, based in the Happy Isles Art and Nature Center. If you will be in the valley, come join the art class from 10-2 PM Monday to Saturday. You’ll learn to draw, paint and print leaves from the Sierra Nevada, no need
This spring I’m teaching for the first time at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.! On April 27, I’ll be teaching watercolor and printmaking in a 5 hour workshop called Leaves Two Ways. First you’ll transform contour drawings of leaves into transparent watercolor paintings. Then you’ll use the same leaves
I received this mural commission in July 2018 to design and paint eight nine-foot columns in an open-air plaza at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Over eight days, my assistant Morgan and I started at 7 AM to avoid the July heat. First we primed and then painted
Yosemite Falls in June (watercolor and ink on paper, 8 x 6 inches) and two other new paintings from my time in the park this past June show up in the new video by SR/A Gallery in Chevy Chase MD. You’ll find them in the first 30 seconds
Every day for two weeks I crossed a bridge over this river, the Merced, on my way to work.
If you’re traveling out west this summer, I’ll be in Yosemite National Park for two weeks as an artist-in-residence beginning June 11. I’ll be teaching a 4 hour class called Painting and Printing the Park each day (except Sunday) from 10-2. Here’s a link to more info on the Yosemite
Sending out a very big thanks to everyone who came to the SR/A gallery opening! I was lucky enough to sell a painting that first evening, a watercolor from Yosemite National Park’s Soda Springs. The other paintings I’m showing are from Yosemite too. The biggest piece is a white-line woodcut
For all readers near Washington D.C.: Six of my Yosemite paintings will be featured in a group show at SR/A La Collection Art Gallery in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Real Art on a Shoestring will feature over 100 pieces (from over 10 artists) each for $750 or less. Come by on
Three forest fires to the south filled the valley with smoke each morning, but the valley oak in Cook’s Meadow shrugged it off. I painted this with ink and a sumi paintbrush at about 10:30 AM.
The Sketchbook Habit: The art of everyday life
10 AM — 1 PM
Gyotaku: the Japanese art of printing fish
…returns January 2022.
Gyotaku II
… returns April 2022.
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