Posts Tagged: grass

Blue Gum Morning

Posted 2021/05/08 by Sterling

Spent the morning reading good reviews for The Bad Batch, which was nice, then walked behind the house and painted…

Oaks on the hill

Posted 2021/04/28 by Sterling

Well I guess summer is here. I nearly melted in the heat of the sun while painting this and the…

Farm Pond

Posted 2021/04/20 by Sterling

Plein Air 1.5hr Study of one of the ponds on the family ranch.

Phoenix Lake Dam

Posted 2021/02/23 by Sterling

Cruised up and over Bald hill on my bike looking for a place to draw but the light wasn’t great…

Ross Common

Posted 2020/11/05 by Sterling

I was painting by the post office steps today in Ross, CA and heard a great deal of cautiously optimistic…

In the shade of the oaks

Posted 2020/09/28 by Sterling

It was very hot and dry in Alexander Valley yesterday. I spent my afternoon standing in the shade of an…

Bald Hill Ridge Trailhead

Posted 2020/08/29 by Sterling

Finally got away from my desk but I only had an hour before the sun set, so I quickly drove…

Oleander

Posted 2020/06/08 by Sterling

I ran out of panel boards to paint on, oh the joys of social distancing, finally made some more and…

The Old Barn

Posted 2020/05/10 by Sterling

This afternoon I drove to the family ranch to enjoy a social distancing mother’s day BBQ. Emerging from self isolation…

Alpine Lake Tree

Posted 2020/05/09 by Sterling

Rode my gravel bike out to Alpine Lake and painted a tree next to the side of the water

Crooked Staircase

Posted 2020/04/29 by Sterling

I painted the unkept hillside to the south of my house from my living room window. Gravity is slowly pulling…

The driveway north

Posted 2020/04/11 by Sterling

Another quarantine painting. This is the view looking down my driveway toward Terrace Ave, San Anselmo. In addition I made…

Driveway

Posted 2020/04/10 by Sterling

I painted the driveway behind my house.

Upton Ave Palms

Posted 2020/04/01 by Sterling

A Persidio lunchtime painting from January. looking south from the picnic table at the Persidio Institute on a misty afternoon.

Persido Overlook Gum Trees

Posted 2020/03/28 by Sterling

Looking west towards one of the Baker Beach overlook parking lots, in the Persidio, San Francisco.

New Growth

Posted 2020/03/24 by Sterling

No thanks to the Kincade fire, the family ranch had been charred black for weeks, then we had our first…

On Ring Mountain

Posted 2020/03/21 by Sterling

Avoiding C19, people and our iPads, my boys and I escaped the house for a hike up Ring Mountain.

Turtles Back Trail

Posted 2020/01/05 by Sterling

Painting in China Camp State Park again. This time on the Turtles Back hiking loop looking south towards the road.

Buckeye Point After the Rain

Posted 2019/12/08 by Sterling

It stopped raining for a bit so I drove over to China Camp State Park and painted the view looking…

Baker Beach overlook

Posted 2019/11/12 by Sterling

Lunchtime plein air painting. Not far from the road over looking Baker Beach in the Persidio, San Francisco

Palace of Fine Arts South Lawn

Posted 2019/08/18 by Sterling

A lunchtime plein air study at the palace of fine arts

Wood Pile Hill Painting

Posted 2019/08/16 by Sterling

A plein air study painted at the Robert Young Estate.

The old oak painting

Posted 2019/04/29 by Sterling

I've returned to oil painting

Out Come the Wolves

Posted 2017/12/03 by Sterling

I've been sitting on this painting for a few months, it wasn't concept art for the show, just a fan…

Upper Sacramento River

Posted 2017/08/20 by Sterling

Painting of the Upper Sacramento, in Dunsmuir CA.

Death the Cat

Posted 2017/07/27 by Sterling

Quick one hour painting done in Photoshop.

Winding path

Posted 2017/07/02 by Sterling

Long overdue. Don’t think I’ve sat down and done a pencil drawing in a while. Computers are sucking my soul…

Brush Painting

Posted 2016/05/29 by Sterling

Playing around with some new digital oil photoshop brushes by Kyle Webster.

Long live the King

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

So here is the final render of “the King”. He was created entirely in zBrush and took about a weeks…

Alien Tree Zbrush Sculpt

Posted 2012/02/20 by Sterling

A quick tree sculpt I made in Zbrush. The base of the tree was made using zsphears and dynamesh but…

Stanley Park Thumbnail

Posted 2011/08/19 by Sterling

Silas fell asleep while we were at the park yesterday. I had the iPad with me and made this thumbnail…

Beached House Painting

Posted 2011/07/06 by Sterling

Painted this on my iPad while on a road-trip up to Vancouver. Its imagery from my Wakefield project.