october

the école has been busy - we have been working on portrait painting with a few side-trips back into the landscape.
some of the recent work:
                                                 
                                               

coco has been spending time at goleta beach.
autumn in santa barbara is really summer.









libby smith 
oil on panel 
8"x10"

                                                                                        

libby smith, oil on panel, 10"x10"

libby smith, oil on panel, 10"x10"

libby smith
oil on panel
8"x10"

libby smith, oil on panel, 8"x10"

meanwhile, mimi was in the sierra's. real weather. autumn color, snow and hail.

nina warner, oil on panel, 6"x12"

nina warner

oil on panel

5"x7"

coco and mimi painted the "hunter's moon" - amazing and fun working at night. views from east beach, watching the moon rise. hard to photograph the darkness of the images.

libby smith, oil on panel, 9"x12"

libby smith
oil on panel
9"x12"

libby smith, oil on panel, 9"x12"

libby smith, stearn's wharf @ night

oil on panel, 10"x10"

nina warner
oil on panel
9"x12"

nina warner, afterglow moonrise
oil on panel, 6"x12"

nina warner, oil on panel, 9"x12"

and now to some portraits....

pamela zwehl-burke
Gige, oil on canvas, 18"x24"

libby smith
bonnie
oil on panel
9"x12"

diane handloser
lulu
oil on canvas
9"x12"

nina warner
maddie
oil on canvas
18"x24"