Brooks with "Dragon Boats 2011" that received an Honorable Mention ribbon. "OMSI Summer" painting was also in the show and was sold.

Here is Brooks with his award winning painting "Cinco de Mayo Portland" in the OSA 2011 Rose Festival Show. This was painted on the Portland waterfront on May 5, 2011. The ferris wheel and other rides are for the 2011 Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Mary at Cornell Farms Nursery, Portland Oregon. Great place to paint. Wonderful plants and friendly people. http://www.cornellfarms.com/ View of downtown Portland from Overlook Park.ice Humberto Gonzalez painted there twice in April. Note the beautiful rain clouds that chased us off. Fremont Bridge also from Overlook Park Portland Oregon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Bridge_%28Portland%29 Hawthorne bridge in an April Shower in Portland Oregon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_Bridge Museum Place Sculpture where I live. http://www.museum-place.com/main.html The pink umbrellas at Museum Place Portland Oregon

"Goleta Beach Painter" won 3rd place in the Spring show at the Oregon Society of Artists.

Marcia Burtt plein air painting at Goleta Beach. I attended Marcia's January 2011 plein air painting workshop in Santa Barbara California. Here is her website: http://www.marciaburtt.com/ Marcia's workshop was excellent. She demonstrated her clear colorful painting style every morning and then she personally helped each of us as we painted all day long. We worked from 8:30 am to 5pm every day. Except for Tuesday when we stayed till 6:30pm to paint the rising full moon. Brooks plein air painting at Goleta Beach California. Here are a few of my paintings from Santa Barbara. This is Cabrillo Drive along the Santa Barbara waterfront. Goleta Beach has many interesting rocks. This painter stands alone on Goleta Beach. Goleta Slough runs behind Goleta Park. The view across from Goleta Park is stunning. Yucca grow among the rocks at Goleta Park. Here is a photo of the three palms next to the excellent restaurant in Goleta Park. Here is my painting of this scene. I cal...

"Sunny Portland", "Congregational Church", and "Benson House" are all in the Oregon Society of Artists show "60+ the New 40s". This show will be on display January 9, 2011 through January 31, 2011, at 2185 SW Park Place, Portland Oregon. The OSA gallery is open 1-4pm Tuesday - Saturday. "Sunny Portland" image is 15x22 inches acrylic. "Congregational Church" image is 22x15 inches acrylic. Benson House image is 15x22 inches - acrylic.

Portland Oregon had a warm sunny fall that was full of good plein air painting days. Here are a few paintings from fall of 2010 in Portland. Reflections in 200 Market St. glass building. (Acrylic 22x15 in) Dorothy Frear visited us in Portland. So we painted trees in the South Park Blocks. (gauche 15x11 in). Humberto Gonzalez, Yolanda Valdes and I painted one day at Nancy's place in the country. This is Nancy's studio and barn. (acrylic 15x22 in) Here is Yolanda in action painting Nancy's studio. Peninsula Park fountain in Portland. (acrylic 15x22in) Steel Bridge in a sunny September afternoon. This is one of Portland's train bridges. There are two trains in this painting. (acrylic 15x22) Morrison bridge on a sunny October afternoon. Portlanders turn out along the river when the sun shines. (acrylic 15x22) The "Safari Explorer" National Geographic ship visited Portland in October. Thank you Safari for posing for me. (acrylic 15x22) Steel Bridge i...