Commissioned Cat Portrait

Today I finished another Cat Portrait "Elsa"
Don't forget to let me know if you or any of your friends would like a Pet Portrait, just forward my blog to them and my email address is dobyrne@mac.com to order a commission ;-)
Have a great week!

Solona Beach Plein Air Painting

Painted a beach scene at sunset at Solona Beach. It was a beautiful day everyone in their swimsuits sunbathing and having picnics. Incredible weather for this time of year. I started painting in daylight and ended in sunset so it was a challenge!!!

Week 6- 3/17th- Simba Cat Portrait

Monday 17th - Went to Balboa Park to paint but must admit I got distracted by all the goings on with St Patricks Day. So headed to the notorious Davis Marketing Celebration on 5th Ave where we had a great re-union with Leslie and her present and past employees plus family and lots of friends. It was a great time! the parade went right by her building so talk about front row seating!!

Tues 18th - Computer Day and meeting with Web Designer Scott to revamp my website. Worked on Blog updates.

Wed 19th - Worked on excel spreadsheet for finances, paid bills, checked emails etc. Worked on commissions.

Thurs 20th & Friday 21st - Finished the painting of "Simba" the second cat portrait for Tina.

Computer Issues

Tom Lambotte the Mac Guru came to my rescue thanks for the referral from Leslie Davis. He worked on my mac mini and saved me 17 gigs of space as my hard drive was completely full. So all I need now is more memory for things to work better. He will install this for me this Friday. He also showed me some tricks with my email so delighted for the help. If you need any help with your Mac please call Tom at 858-342-8826.

3/17 Lake Poway Oil

Took a day trip out to Lake Poway to see the wild flowers and the lake with two painting buddies. This painting I need to fix. I will delete the 3 trees on the left and add a hill so your eye doesn't go off the page and make some other edits. I'll post the final one later.

We saw lots of species of birds and I loved the geese but boy were they cheeky and made a beeline for me setting up my easel. Heres a photo of Fred going in for attack. He came charging out of the water and waddling up the hill to attack me so I held my ground, nervous but my passion for art took over, and he made a huge racket of squawking and then attacked my shoes, thank goodness for two things: 1. I wasn't wearing flip flops, 2. and he has no teeth! hilarious! once he pecked at me a few times he realized i wasn't a threat so posed for a few photos! which will be my next painting, thanks Fred :)

3/16/08 Point Loma Cliffs

Another wonderful painting day in paradise. It was blustery windy day so had some layers on. Fabulous pounding waves hitting the rocks. I had a great view from above. With all this painting going on I'm discovering how San Diego has so many fabulous views so I'll be busy for a long time ;-)

Peñasquitos Ranch, San Diego

This week I painted 2 paintings out in Peñasquitos Ranch. We have had fabulous sunny days but boy once in the shade it really felt chilly especially when you are painting and not moving much. A hare ran by with his cute white tail fluffed up, some ducks nearby quacked away to each other...they were the only sounds to be heard. So it was really nice to enjoy the peace and quite... made the time stand still. I hope you get this feeling from these two oil paintings.

These belong to the series of Plein Air Paintings of San Diego which will be for sale at my upcoming ART WALK show in Little Italy on April 26th and 27th. The Invite will go out this week. Please send me your email address if you have not received invites in the past.

Email Address: dobyrne@mac.com.