Since the spring art activities have slowed down, I have been out painting and enjoying the weather. I have been down to Big Sur painting with the Morgan Hill Gallery and to Half Moon Bay painting with the Peninsula Outdoor Painters, plus our own LGAA Plein Air Group in the south bay. I have just added some of this work to the gallery.

In late June, my wife and I took our 40th anniversary trip to Catalina and Laguna Beach. We found some amazing galleries and art museums, with the one in Irvine being our favorite. This private collection holds some amazing work by all the great Southern California Plein Air Painters from 1910 to 1940. Catalina is an outdoor painter's dream and I have two new Catalina paintings in my gallery.

Morgan Hill Gallery invited me to demonstrate for their group in June and they were very supportive of my first effort. My next venture into demonstrating will come August 17 at the Terraces, a senior living residence in Los Gatos. I'm planning to setup a still life.

My painting "Opening Day", on my home page was selected for the 2005 Fiesta De Artes poster in Los Gatos. This Art and Wine Festival is in its 30th year and can be attended Sat 13 and Sun 14 of August, in downtown Los Gatos.