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Shari Cheves Art Gallery - About the Artist

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Working my way through college in the computer field, I helped teachers develop educational software to communicate abstract concepts in the classroom. After dozens of painful all-nighters with my competitive compadres, I graduated with honors from CSU Long Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design in 1997. My husband and I moved to the Sierra Foothills with our own computer software business, Hot Door. The pendulum started to swing again after I took a class in wire sculpture with local arti...

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: Hotel by the Bay

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Hotel by the Bay. Southern California's been in a terrible drought but for some reason we just started having a series of Winter style storms. Pretty unusual for almost June. But we need the rain. The positive side effect to standing and painting in the rain has been the incredible clouds we've been having. Fun stuff. Today's painting was done down by the bay looking toward one of the resort hotels. Hoping for sun tomorrow.

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: May 2014

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Monday, May 12, 2014. 12 x 16 pastel on sanded paper. We're having unseasonably hot weather again here but it's still cool in the evenings. Especially down by the ocean. This is actually one of our lagoons just inland from the ocean. One of my favorite places to paint and walk. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow my blog by Email. To purchase a painting:. Visit my website at:. Find me on Facebook. Subscribe to: This Blog (Atom).

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: Here's how it works

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. Heres how it works. OK, I've started keeping track of my attempts by saving a photo and then writing some observations about the results. Kinda like a mini critique. This is mainly to help me sort out what I'm working on and how I can improve. I'm going to include some of these comments here so that others can spy on my thought processes (such as my addled old brain produces nowadays). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: San Pasqual Valley

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Saturday, May 23, 2015. More little daily paintings. Trying to create more "brush time". It was still raining early this morning but when the clouds finally drifted off for a while it was very hazy. I like hazy. 6 x 8 oil on panel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow my blog by Email. To purchase a painting:. Visit my website at:. Find me on Facebook. Subscribe to: This Blog (Atom). About The Old Dog. View my complete profile. Which way do we go?

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: December 2014

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Friday, December 5, 2014. I spend a lot of time outdoors and too much money on hotels. Used to tent camp a lot but I'm getting a bit too old to sleep on the ground so we picked up this little gem. Can't wait to park in up in the Sierras next spring! Links to this post. 12 x 9 oil on linen panel. This Fall I took a trip up to the Eastern Sierras. Wow! Links to this post. Please check back here for new paintings, updates and some future workshops and classes.

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: Almost Daily

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Friday, May 15, 2015. So I've decided to start doing an almost-daily painting session. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy working small and how much it helps develop your skills. I'm not naive enough to think that I'll have the time to do one every day but when I can make the time I know it will help me work on some skills and bad habits and keep the "miles and miles of canvas" going. We'll see how long it lasts. wink emoticon. 6 x 8 oil on panel.

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: Virgin River

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. It's been pretty cloudy around here lately. I was in the mood for some sun so today's painting is from my last trip to Zion NP. One of my favorite (and most frustrating) places to paint. 8 x 6 oil on panel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow my blog by Email. To purchase a painting:. Visit my website at:. Find me on Facebook. Subscribe to: This Blog (Atom). About The Old Dog. View my complete profile. Which way do we go?

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature: Making Time...

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Randall Smith - Original Paintings from Nature. Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The more I paint, the more I want to paint. This appears to be one of the basic symptoms of the "Painting Disease". And apparently, I have it! One thing I'm learning is that the only way to really learn how to paint is to paint, paint and paint more. Reading books is good. Watching videos is fun. But in the end, only brush time teaches me anything that sticks. I guess I'll just have to find some other way to treat the disease and pay...