ONE OAR

18x24" acrylic on linen

And yet another boat. What can I say...I like 'em. Clients like 'em. Believe it or not it's somewhat of a challenge to make water look right. And the lines of a boat are tricky. Curves extending away from the eye toward the vanishing point.Available at Primary Elements Gallery in Cannon Beach or. www.primaryelementsgallery.com

MIRROR POND

30x22" acrylic on linen

How's this for color!! Cool old boat too! Available at Primary Elements Gallery in Cannon Beach Oregon www.primaryelementsgallery.com

PRAM

22x30"acrylic on linen....$1600

Here's another larger piece I've been working on. Couldn't come up with a catchy title this time.  Most of these larger ones are all palette knife. Much more fun for me that way. Maybe it's the sculptor in me that likes to move the thicker paint around with a blade. I like the spontaneity that comes with broad strokes. And the inability to do minute detail with a big blade helps keep it loose as opposed to overworked.

BOATS AKIMBO

48x62"acrylic on canvas

This is not a good photo of this piece.Too dark! But until I can light it better, you can at least see what I've been working on. As you can see by the dimensions above, this is a larger scale one. And it can't be appreciated in such a small reproduction. It is much more the sort of painting I like to do and different than the little dailies. I can't get the bolder, more abstract quality in my small pieces and also I don't feel the tiny format of  a 6x6inch painting lends itself well to things like this.  I think the small ones fill my need to do something more toward realism. I'll take a better shot of this and put it on my website later.
Available at Riversea Gallery in Astoria Or. www.riverseagallery.com

MUCH TO DO

6x6" acrylic on gessoboard...$100SOLD

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One last bumble bee.Or at least for a while.They seem to like these purple whatchamacallits in our yard. Hard to get them to pose for me though.

BUZZZ

6x6"acrylic on gessoboardSOLD

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Been a long weekend! skipped painting for 2 days! I started a larger piece this morning and finished this little bee too.Make it yours!(please)

ARROW 2 UP CLOSE 22x30"

ARROW 2  REFLECTIONS 18x24"SOLD

I finally finished the last 2 of 6 homages to the old pilot tug Arrow no. 2. She is being replaced by a new, just built, all steel tug. These last two are of the Arrow at dock in front of the Brix Marine office in Astoria Oregon. Used to be Foss marine(or do I have that backwards?) No matter. She's a beautiful old working tug with lots of stories and scars.As of the last visit to the docks she was still there alongside the new tug so maybe they will continue to use her for a while.

FISH EYE

6x6" acrylic on gessoboard..................$100 SOLD

I'm working on some larger paintings right now but I get frustrated when I don't get something finished in a day. So I am trying to do both . I spend some time on the large one and then do a small one from start to finish. Satisfying! If only I could keep this up. I would be so prolific! I know better though. One of these days the muse will be gone again.

This guy reminds me of an old fellow I used to build houses with. Nice man and a good carpenter but he had the coldest, fish eyed stare.

TRUMPET

6x8" acrylic on gessoboard.......$100     SOLD  BUY NOW

Another instrument. Both of my boys play the trumpet so here it is. My daughter plays flute...that explains the previous posts. I like shiny, reflective stuff in my little still lifes.

FLUTIST

6x8" acrylic on gessoboard....................$100

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This is the last flute for a while. Couldn't resist this old guy playing his tin whistle. He looks pretty content with what he has.

FLUTE TOO

6x8" acrylic on gessoboard.....................$100 SOLD

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Flutes are on my  mind this week This is number two.

DREAM BOAT

                                Acrylic on linen 22x30"

As a follow up to the last piece, I took this in a more abstract, minimalist direction. The boat was actually sitting in absolutely calm water with the clouds and sky reflected. By the time I was finished, it took on an almost surreal, dreamlike quality.  These last two colorful paintings were good for my soul during the cold, gray, stormy days of winter here on the Oregon coast.

LOW TIDE

                                Acrylic on linen 22x30"

So here's how it ended up. I like it!  I'm off to start another boat.

new boat

 I worked and worked on a little painting of a clam digger till I got so exaperated I had to go kick the dog! Well.... I might have kicked the dog if I still had the old smell hound.  Not really. But  instead of throwing a fit,  I started a new piece. Nice and large (about 22x30 inches), just to get away from the little, tiny dailies. I get bogged down when I paint the little ones sometimes. Maybe it has to do with the little brushes? And I have to put on my reading glasses to see what I'm doing on those little 6x6" pieces. Glasses...I hate glasses!
  I think I prefer to paint standing up too. I can take a couple swipes at a piece and then stand back. Anyway, I am posting progress reports on the larger piece.
 I spent some time charcoaling in  the basic shape of the boat and then laid down the colors in the right areas with a large knife. Took a photo early on this time. I'll post some more tomorrow, so be sure to tune in!

what happened this week

This began as a completely different painting. I struggled 2 days on it and in the end wiped it all away. After pacing around  the wiped surface and squinting at it for a day or so I finally started this and made significant progress the first couple days. Now it is at the stage where it is almost there but I can't figure out what it  needs. I've been swiping at it all day today as I cleaned out and rearranged the shop/studio. It's darn close to done but......
 It's oil on linen and around 22"x30" like the last two.

IT WAS A GOOD DAY

Acrylic on linen 22x30"....$1600 SOLD

This is another done with the knife alone. I finished it just last week. The texture gets pretty heavy and I think I like that about it. It's almost akin to sculpting in a way. These last two are in the same color palette and I find them calming. This is  a wooden drift boat which is pretty common to this area. Great for shallow water fishing.
I plan to do a few more boats on this scale 22"x30".

LONE BOAT

OIL ON LINEN    22x30"...$1600 SOLD

I know it's been a while since I posted. I have been dealing with cancer . Surgery ...radiation...fear...recouping and blah, blah , blah. Yeah, poor, poor me.  I've debated whether or not to continue posting my work on this blog after letting it sit idle for these last few months. I wonder if anyone is still watching. But if I'm going to survive, and I think I will,  I'm going to have  have to keep painting.  Maybe not so many little dailies as before but painting every day just the same.
This is a larger piece I finished a couple days ago. I suppose it reflects (pardon the pun) my mood these days. Quiet, isolated, fairly peaceful and reflective. Looks like I better get those oars in the water!
I did it in oil as opposed to my usual acrylics. Messy stuff that oil but it moves nice on the canvas and has a longer working time than acrylics.

OH YEAH!

8x10" acrylic on masonite panel...........$125

My son Max and his buddy Cole heading out at a surf contest in Pacific City. I keep telling them surfing is not a competition sport. It's supposed to be about testing yourself against mother nature and becoming one with the ocean and mystical stuff like that...but they just can't resist. If there's a contest nearby ...they gotta be there.

THE REAL ME

8x10 acrylic on masonite panel................$125SOLD

I did this as my entry in the DAILYPAINTWORKS CHALLENGE
for this week. I wanted to catch me at my best and I think I got it!
The good folks at DAILYPAINTWORKS are moving in a new direction and are just about prepared to offer auction style sales abilities to artists who normally auction through Ebay. The GREAT part is..much smaller fees and this site is for art only. I am on board as a human Guinea pig so to speak to help them work through potential  set-up problems. In return I am getting their services for free for a spell.! I got the best end of that deal!
I'm proud to be at all associated with this site because a number of the best daily painters in the world show there as featured artists. And the folks running it are pretty cool too. Artist Carol Marine and her husband David Marine have built this site into a first class operation. Two extremely talented people in their respective fields. This link will take you to my current gallery there so you can see what the site offers Brian Cameron Gallery. So keep an eye on them.

EARLY IN THE MORNING

This guy has been waking us up at dawn most mornings this week. I like it! Another sign that spring is really here. Pheasant roosters like to get up high and crow at sunrise just to let the world know they are alive and in charge. Any little mound or high spot of ground will do. If I had the most expensive,vivid colors on my palette I couldn't begin to do justice to their iridescent plumage. But I have to take a stab at it anyway.