More development on this bigger rose painting today... I worked on several adjacent petals in a group, adding more saturated warm and cool ...

I did a bit of work on both rose paintings today, adding a yellow wash on "Hide and Seek II", and another varied color wash to em...

Whew!... Time flies, and before I realize there has been weeks without a new posting on this blog!!! So, what is Arena doing these days? Ha...

After painting the the estuary and fog scenes with a muted cool palette, I was itching to splash some warm, saturated colors on paper, and ...

More landscape paintings... I have to admit that they are extremely addictive once you get into the "zone"... This one is about t...

I did a long hike on the wetlands near Palo Alto today, and came back with tons of bad reference photos of the pattern of sand bars, reeds,...

More sky-centered paintings on the go... I've become braver and switched to quarter-sheet paper now, and using my 2" and 1" f...

After assessing the color and value balance of Winter Mirage (the second version), I decided that I like it slightly better than the first ...

I've felt a bit experimental lately and ventured out to paint more wet-in-wet landscapes, some successful, others disastrous. To manage...

I've started a new painting of Bird of Paradise, experimenting with orange-blue complementary color scheme. So far, the underpainting s...