Comment by Karen Watland on June 30, 2011 at 10:23pm

It is mixed media...gouache and oil paints. I am anxious to create some more with the same feeling. I love going into different directions with my art, maybe to return, maybe not. ;-) . It is 24"x36"..not sure why it came out looking so long.

Comment by Donald Maier on July 1, 2011 at 12:33pm

Karen, you speak of doing some more work with "the same feeling". I think of "drawing" as recording the details in a scene and "painting" more of a freedom of expression without to much regard to the details. These two extreams, like so many other things, can be varied and altered in degrees. Same thing goes with the idea of abstraction. You can, at one end, pay close attention to rendering the image as closely to reality as possible, or you can dial it up to be more and more loose, or less detail, or just the basic shapes... more abstract. I think this makes sense, but I could be wrong.

Comment by Joy S. Olney on July 24, 2011 at 9:52pm

I'm happy to see this group.

This week I pulled out small canvas 5x7 to work on while I waited for my friend to finish up on her own painting. I found these small fast paintings abstract. I really liked them. I'm going out with more 5x7 canvas.

Comment by Rachel Wiley on September 5, 2011 at 10:27pm

Had a wonderful day without humidity on Galveston Island, Texas! Just wanted to share my excitement with the group!

Comment by Donald Maier on February 25, 2012 at 3:00pm

Here is my most recent attempt to abstract a sunset along Canton Road.

Comment by Mikki Root Dillon on February 25, 2012 at 11:00pm

Wow, Don, really cool!

Comment by Penny Otwell on February 26, 2012 at 12:56am

I did this painting last fall at the Merced River and warm and lovely day in Yosemite Valley.  The reflections of golden trees are the reason for the painting while cottonwood leaves kept dropping into my palette.  The paint got thick and my friend kept saying, you need some details in this.  I just left it all gooey and bright.

Donald, I love your jazzy watercolor.  I love how you paint like this!  Hope you are all well -- Penny

Comment by Donald Maier on February 26, 2012 at 2:20pm

I so much want to be in Yosemite Valley with you. My last trip there was in Jan. 1994. You know I moved in 1975 from NJ to San Francisco BAy area so I could work in a city but be able to paint on weekends in Yosemite. It is right up there in my favorite places. I remember when you did not have to stand in line to get a campsite in the valley. Try that now. Love the feeling in this. Glad you did not put in more detail. It is difficult to quit before it gets overworked with too much detail. great job

Comment by Penny Otwell on February 27, 2012 at 10:04pm

Hi Donald -- let me know if you ever come to Yosemite.  It would be great fun to paint together.  Glad you like this piece.  I do too.  It was a magic fall moment!  Happy painting Donald!

Comment by Donald Maier on February 28, 2012 at 3:33pm

"Lost Time"

was done yesterday while out painting an abandoned house. I have a problem with these new Danial Smith watercolors being so runny, that when I dipped into a yellow, got too much on my brush, but used it anyway. I am really cheap. Don't like to waste expensive paint. So I put it down. Then, did similarly with a magenta and then a blue... all primaries. It started out as just areas of merging colors, which later turned into what you see here. Nothing like the house I was painting, but done outdoors on location, and no, I was not abducted.

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