Sunset at Rancho Mirage

Steve Puttrich © 2013
Sunset at Rancho Mirage
8” x 10” Oil on canvas panel
$250 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

As the sun set over Rancho Mirage the cool and warm colors seemed to dance together celebrating the close of a spectacular day.

Grapefruit Tree #2

Steve Puttrich © 2013
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Rancho Mirage, CA Grapefruits in abundance, #2 This one was done with more of a watercolor wash technique.

Lots of transparent, first wash color, is used to capture the vibrancy.

Grapefruit Tree

Steve Puttrich © 2013
11” x 14” Oil on Linen
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.
 

Rancho Mirage, CA Grapefruits in abundance.

Rocky Mountain Morning

Steve Puttrich © 2013
22” x 28” Oil on Linen
$3000 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

 Rocky Mountain National Park – Old Fall River – Springs light reveal an explosion of color juxtaposed with the coolness of the melting snow.

Plein Air Study for studio painting above 
9"x12" Oil on Canvas
$360 - SOLD

Pomegranates

Steve Puttrich © 2012
9” x 12” Oil on canvas panel
$350 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Pomegranate opened displays their inner designs, patterns and colors as their vibrant succulent juices flow.

Christmas Tree at North Park

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on Canvas
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.
 

Detail of Arlington Heights Christmas Tree at North Park. Painted this with Bobbie and Valerie while Christine and her family played around the tree. A wonderful time!

Gilson Park Beach

Steve Puttrich © 2012

11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel

$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Gilson Park in Wilmette, IL Fall colors displayed on warm sandy beach of Lake Michigan.

Misty

Steve Puttrich © 2012
6” x 8” Oil on canvas panel
$100 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Misty rainy morning on Heron Creek Forest Preserve, Lake Zurich, IL, These cool gray clouds always make warm colors vibrate in concert.

Morning Mist over Cayucos Bay

Steve Puttrich © 2012
Morning Mist over Cayucos Bay
9"x12" Oil on canvas
$350 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.



Just off of Studio Drive, South of Cayucos, California, lies a quiet place to view the morning mist coming off the Pacific. It's also a great place to capture the subtly patterns of color as new light tries to burn through. 

Happy Cows in Harmony, California

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Wednesday September 26, 2012 at Harmony, California. At the Elizabeth Tolley workshop, painting a delightful farm and happy moo’n cows. Cloudy cool morning, but the sun and warm breezes warmed us all up nicely by 11:00. After completing, I set this painting up along one of those telephone poles – further down the line - neighbors, and of course a breeze came, stirring up some loose straw, and found their way onto the wet oil paint. Long since dry, I haven’t wanted to wipe the straw off, it’s kind of endearing and a good lesson learned to not set your paintings down on the grass when still wet.

New Dawn Shines

Steve Puttrich © 2012
New Dawn Shines
9"x12" Oil on canvas
$350 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Morning fog at Cayucos, California as discarded remnants of the past, last nights seaweed, piles up on shore, as the hope of a new dawn shines in the distance.



Ferry Building – San Francisco, CA

Steve Puttrich © 2012
9” x 12” Oil on canvas panel
$350 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Saturday Morning, September 22, 2012. At the Embarcadero’s Sue Bierman Park looking south east at San Francisco’s historic Ferry Building. Fall leaves were peppering the still bright green grass.

“Big Red” Lighthouse

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Holland Michigan's “Big Red” is a beautiful little gem welcoming home the weary voyager.

Hydrangeas

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

A flock of hydrangeas lit by mornings warm light do what they are designed to do.

Moonflowers in Morning Light

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$450 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Bright sunny summer morning and an explosion of color, light and smells from these beautiful moonflowers.

Moonflower Morning

Steve Puttrich © 2012
9” x 12” Oil on canvas panel
Private Collection 

Awash in color, fragrance and delight as two playful moonflowers dance delightfully in the warm summer breeze

Lilacs – Spring’s Fragrance

Steve Puttrich © 2012
11” x 14” Oil on canvas panel
$450 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

Lilacs spring into action doing what they do best – looking and smelling wonderful as the morning light warms and reveals their hypnotic secrets.

Cherry Blossoms

Steve Puttrich © 2012
Cherry Blossoms

11" x 14" Oil on canvas panel

$450 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

 

Plein Air painted on location in our back yard on a warm sunny spring day. The bees and blooms were all doing what they were designed to do.

Golden Fruit

Steve Puttrich © 2012
Golden Fruit
8” x 10” Oil on canvas panel
$250 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

 

This is actually a tangerine, however some folks say it could be a pear. I found this at our local Valley Produce store and was intrigued by the stem and fresh green leaf still attached.

The Fiscalini Ranch

Steve Puttrich © 2010
The Fiscalini Ranch
18” x 24” Acrylic on canvas panel
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.
 

Along the Cambria Shores of California is an amazing sanctuary called The Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. This is a large open-space property that stretches approximately one mile along the ocean and includes part of Santa Rosa Creek. It contains habitat important to endangered and threatened species, including tidewater gobies, steelhead trout, red-legged frogs and Monterey pines. The trails are friendly to Plein air Artists.