Brooks painting the Iris Gardens May 2010. Here are the gardens and my painting. Here is the Iris Gardens Painting - May 28, 2010.

Here are a few more May 2010 plein air paintings. Portland is called "bridge city". Here is the Freemont Bridge that carries I405 traffic. Much of Portland is under construction. This is the view from the Smart Park garage across from Art Media on a very dark and stormy day. The red building is Nordstroms. Here is the view from Oregon Health Sciences University. The building on the right are the South Waterfront towers. Several are under construction. Teddy Roosevelt rides through South Park everyday. Here he is posing in front of the Ladd Towers apartment building where Peggie and I live. I call the "Teddy meets the Ladd"

Here are more May 2010 paintings from Portland Oregon. This is Sauvie Island Bridge. Here is Simon Benson House during Saturday Farmers Market. School buses on Morrison Bridge. These buses are going to the Portland Art Museum. Sculpture outside the Portland Art Museum, that the kids in the school buses went to see. Another Saturday Farmers Market scene on the PSU campus at South Parks Blocks in Portland.

Here are a few more of my Portland Paintings in April and May 2010. Several of these will be in the Geezer Gallery June 2010 Show at "Fishes and Loaves" in Multnoma Village. Here is the Geezer Gallery Website: http://www.geezergallery.com/ This is the Simon Benson House at Portland State University. Here is Hawthorne Bridge on a dark and stormy day. Here is the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry from across the Willamette River on the same dark and stormy day. This is the "Lake Tai Rock", a gift from Suzhou, Portland's Chinese Sister City. The Lake Tai rock stands in Terry Schrunk Plaza at 3rd and SW Jefferson Ave. Skidmore Fountain is a stop on the Max. If you look closely you will see two Portland plein air painters in this painting. See you outside painting. Brooks