Had a great time as a juried artist in the Carmel Art Festival this year! I will spend the next few blog posts adding images of the paintings I completed during the event, 

Carmel is on the Monterey Peninsula where you will find some of the most iconic and beautiful coastline in North America. I tried my best to do it justice in my paintings and feel I achieved some success selling six of the eight paintings I completed and winning two awards in the event including "Artists Choice Award" 

I painted more 6x8 studies on this trip trying to simplify designs and get more expressive brushwork. I think it helped me when I started on larger panels.