Painting I started in a demonstration.

I was asked to do a demonstration/presentation for the East Valley Art Association in San Jose this past November.  The top image is the point I reached in the painting during the demo and below is the painting after I worked some more on it in my studio. The location of the landscape reference photo is south San Jose along Santa Teresa Road....north of Morgan Hill, and I chose this scene as it's a pretty simple landscape and it is quite a bit of pressure for me to do a painting in front of an audience.  Hopefully, I'm getting a bit more comfortable at it, as I've agreed to do another demo in Sunnyvale, Ca next March!

North of Bodega Bay

I just put this painting up for auction on http://www.dailypaintworks.com/ starting at $94.  Here I'm showing the painting with the frame that comes with.
Bodega Bay is the coastal town in which the movie "The Birds" was filmed, quite a few years ago.

Tugboat Painting shown in frame

This is the frame "Tugboat on the Delta" comes with, plus "tru vue" glass.  Painting is 8" x 10", with frame outer dimensions, 16" x 18".

Dealta Tugboat

I've just added this painting to the auction on http://www.dailypaintworks.com/. This is an 8" x 10" and with the frame is 16" x 18". Bidding is to start at $94, which includes the frame and my "tru vue" glass. I think somebody would like this for Christmas!

This is a painting (18" x 24" pastel) that I just completed of my grandson from a reference photo I took at the DeAnza Flea market in Cupertino, CA. a couple of years ago.

It looks like he has $1 left and he was running around to find whatever he could get for $1.

I just posted this painting on www.dailypaintworks.com under auctions. If you want to check out my work and auctions, please look under "all artists", then "Myers, C.J."

Most recent painting I added to "dailypaintworks" this afternoon, 11-11-11! This painting is up for auction, starting at $100.

Click here to bid.

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I have just posted these two paintings for sale on the site, "Daily Paintworks". The rooster painting I put in the on-line auction. It's the first time I've tried this, so we'll see how it works. Bidding starts at $100. Please look for me by "Myers, C.J."

Thank you!

Yosemite

Several artist friends and I had a wonderful trip to Yosemite a couple of weeks ago. The weather was great and I think we all want to go back soon....maybe in the spring. I would like to do some painting with a little bit of snow on the ground, but not too much.

Week-end with the Master's in Monterey, CA

I had a spectacular four days in Monterey, California last week at the Master's Convention. It was busy, busy all day long and into the evenings. I saw demos/presentations from Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, Dan Gerhartz, Joe Paquet, Sherri McGraw, and Dan McCaw. There were also evening panels and demos. It was total art immersion!

The second painting here is the figure I did in Dan Gerhartz workshop Thursday afternoon.

The top figure is from Dan McCaw's workshop. This is really not what he was showing us in his demo. He did a head from his imagination....no model. He set up a model for us in the afternoon and basically said to just start painting, using three or four values. (I was the only one in all of my workshops using pastels.) I was trying to be very loose, and this is what I ended up with after a couple of hours. I got a few compliments, which was nice, but the best was from the model who asked if she could photograph it. She said it looked just like her. ......except, that was not the purpose of the class!

In Between Events

sold

This was my most popular painting at the show I did Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 at Solis Winery in Gilroy, CA. This one sold before the show.....yea....

Now I'm packing up to leave for the Master's Convention in Monterey....27 Master Representational Painters from around the country for four days of demos, workshops, plein aire....wow. I'm a bit daunted as I think I'm going to have to get up early and maybe stay up late!

Although I'm getting ready for the show at the Triton this coming Saturday, the 18th of June, I take time out to go to the pool for some excercise, especially since the weather has turned lovely. While I was there Monday afternoon, I talked with some of my neighbors and when I told them that an artist friend was coming up to paint "plein aire" next week, they said I should paint their vineyard. The following morning I followed the gentleman to Suisun Valley and saw his beautiful ranch/vineyard. There are some lovely vistas in that area, so that's where I expect we'll be doing some painting next week!

On Top of the World

Several years ago, I worked with a nice young man who used to bring beautiful flowers from his garden to the office for us all to enjoy. I took quite a few photos of these flowers, hoping some day to make some paintings from them. This is one from those photos.

I will have this painting, plus other new ones at the:

Midsummer Art Celebration at the Triton Museum Sculpture Garden

where I will be joining some of my Morgan Hill artist friends under a canopy of redwood trees for a day of art, food, music and performers. It's 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 18,th. I hope to see friends and clients, some new faces......and some sunshine!!

Painting in Pacific Grove

sold Wow!! It's been so long since I've posted anything, it's been pretty tough getting back into my blog. It didn't help that I put in the wrong password to begin with! This is a small painting that I did on site in Pacific Grove last Friday, memorial day week-end. I took off with all my art supplies in my "clyde", thinking I would find something around Moss Landing, but settled down around 2:30 in PG. I found a nice spot under a tree and set up, right by my car. I'm going to have to learn to manage my supplies so I can work independent of "clyde", but for now this works best for me. It was such a lovely day and so peaceful, painting by the ocean. I feel like I'm getting my mojo back. I hope so!