A little shameless self-promotion.....

Back to paintings tomorrow....but for today...a couple of short logo videos that I created and scored the music for demos....

Calling Rain Studios is my music company

Village Row Media is a production company with my wife Kim

"Winter Display"

Always amazes me how many colors are still on display in nature during the winter....

"Winter Display"

8x10; oil on panel

"Following Along" - a few recent pieces

 "Following Along"

8x10; oil on panel

 "Orchard"

10x8; oil on panel

"Juicy"

8x8; oil on panel

"Winter Grouping"

The other day, my wife and I were out chasing snowballs with our Welsh Corgi, Lucas, in the greenway behind the house....well, Lucas was chasing snowballs, I was trying to make them as quickly as possible even though Lucas was running in circles around me, informing me that I wasn't doing it fast enough...or correctly...or aesthetically proper -- Corgis are quite bossy about these things -- and Kim was trying to film the whole process....

Anyway, after losing the feeling in my hands for about forty-five minutes, I noticed a group of willows that is usually unremarkable during the warmer months (I think....now, we'll have to see....). You can guess what happened....

"Winter Grouping"

 8x10; oil on panel

"Waiting" - paintings and music by William Hoshal

Well, all I can say is that it's time for me to get off my you know what and start posting in here again ...to that end.....

"Waiting" 

(plein air landscape studies and music)

Everything must....

Going through some changes....maybe that's why I haven't been up to posting lately. Happy with some paintings...not so much with others. I'm hoping it will all settle down after the move to Portland....

I felt good about the work I did at the NW Plein Air event, but much less so with the few studies I've done since. The exception has been the roses....lots of work to do there still, but I like the direction so far...

West Coast Travels Part 1

So.....hard to say where to start. We've been on the road for two months now. Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington....still compiling notes and thoughts from my hand written scribblings in order to create a blog about the trip. With all the different places, internet access is sometimes sketchy so I figured I have to settle for a few "update" posts and then write some more complete as things wound down. To tide things over, here's a few paintings from the first half of the trip.....

Spring Into Summer series of studies....

"Spring Into Summer: At The Arboretum"; 8x10; oil on panel

Waiting for the band.....

Couple of new ones today....the first I painted out at a gig in Page Springs. I showed up two hours too early for set-up. Fortunately had my box and a panel with me.....

"Page Springs Ranch"; 8x10; oil on panel

"One More Change"; 6x8; oil on panel

Shadeline....

"Shadeline"; 6x8; oil on linen

New work.....

 "First Now"; 24x24; oil on canvas

 "Everything Changes"; 11x14; oil on panel

Quiet Bend

"Quiet Bend"; 8x10; oil on panel

Coastal Dairy....

"Coastal Dairy", 8x10, oil on panel

SOLD

The View From Here.....

"The View From Here"; 8x10; oil on panel
SOLD

New studies.....

"Prelude"; 8x10; oil on panel

SOLD

"San Carlos Ranch"; 8x10; oil on panel

SOLD

"Shoreline"; 8x10; oil on panel

SOLD

"Verde Morning II"; 8x10; oil on panel

SOLD

More studies.....

"Who's Studying Who"; 8x10; oil on panel
SOLD

"Around The Corner"; 10x12; oil on panel
SOLD

Time flies....

I can't believe it's March already.....summer is coming way too fast for those of us in the Southwest Sun Belt....100 degree days are on the horizon.

A quick update is in order....I was very honored to find that my piece, "Midway," won third place in the annual juried exhibition at the Sedona Art Center

"Midway"; 12x24; oil on panel

I was also very honored to hear that I was juried into membership in the Oil Painters of America...I will find out if any of my submissions made it into the OPA 2012 National Exhibition

Finally, some new pieces:"Evening Cows"; 6x8; oil on board

"Valley Sentinels"; 10x12; oil on panel

New work in progress

"Long Prairie"; 12x16; oil on panel

"Hillview"; 8x10; oil on panel

Resonance....

"Resonant Spring"; 8x10; oil on panel

"Fairview"; 9x12; oil on panel
SOLD

Working through......

"Difference Of Opinion"; 12x12; oil on board

50x50 update: 45 days; 60 paintings; next week I'll begin the selecting/editing process