http://bshelley.com/blog Landscape and Figure Paintings Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:30:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=944 http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=944#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:30:05 +0000 Bill Shelley http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=944 Painted this 11″ x 14″ oil on panel, yesterday, at Helen Putnam Regional Park, near Petaluma. This was a “go for it” painting – I just dove into the colors and shapes, keeping in mind composition.

]]> http://bshelley.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=944 3 http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=940 http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=940#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:49:06 +0000 Bill Shelley http://bshelley.com/blog/?p=940 I did this painting last week at Helen Putnam Regional Park. I launched into it without any preparatory sketches – just responding to the colors, values and shapes in front of me.

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