Saturday, December 15, 2012

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.

Friday, December 14, 2012

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!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

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.

Friday, September 28, 2012

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. 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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.



Saturday, September 22, 2012

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.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

“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.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

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.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

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.

Saturday, July 07, 2012

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

Saturday, June 23, 2012

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.

Friday, April 06, 2012

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.

Sunday, January 01, 2012

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.

Friday, April 22, 2011

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.

Sea Side

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


The Fiscalini Ranch Preserve trails are friendly to Plein air Artists. I was intrigued by the whiteness of the waves and patterns of foam produced as wave breaks among the black rocks

Water Lilies

Steve Puttrich © 2005
Water Lilies
18” x 28” Watercolor
$1500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.

 
This scene was painted from the Chicago Botanic Gardens Water Lily collection.
Two lily flowers in bloom, and neighboring lily pads, float playfully amongst the waters reflections.


Cantigny Lake

Steve Puttrich © 2009
Cantigny reflections  
18” x 24” Watercolor on paper
$500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.
 
 
Plein air painted at this remarkable gem of sanctuary. Quiet reflections on clam waters as spring growth brings new life.

San Simeon Shores


Steve Puttrich © 2003
San Simeon Shores
13” x 24” Watercolor on paper
$2500 - Please contact me if interested in acquiring.
 
 
On a family vacation in 2003 we toured the West Coast of California. One of our destinations was San Simeon. The rocky bay, pounding surf, and wild foliage all proved to be perfect subjects to paint.