Marinscapes

Just completed the 2014 annual Marinscapes show, benefiting Buckelew Programs. Great time with fellow artists and people interested in Marin landscape art. They say it was the most successful show ever. All for a good cause.

An article about my work on ArtSlant

Just received notice that an article about me appears on ArtSlant, a global network of art galleries and museums. Check it out at: http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/39383
If you are so inspired, please comment on the article. Thanks! Will

What are we doing to our water? Check out the documentary 'Watermark'.

Here is a trailer for Watermark , a documentary that explores the life force that sustains us all. It tells diverse stories from around the world about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. 

It opens in theaters on April 18. Check your local listings. It is also available on Netflix.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

2014 has shaped up to be a busy year for showing my art.

I just delivered six paintings to the Redwood Foyer Gallery of the Marin Veterans' Auditorium for an invitational watercolor show that will be up until early June. So if you are attending an event there, be sure to check out the show during intermission.

I've been invited to be part of Marinscapes in late June. This established annual Marin landscape show raises funds for Buckelew Housing. It is always well attended and garners lots of sales. Hopefully with the economy recovering, that will be even more true this year, as it is an excellent cause.

Then in November-December, I will be in a three-person show at Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, titled 'Three Different Views of Water: Paintings by Nelson Hee, Will Noble and Mary Wagstaff.' The gallery is divided into three rooms and each artist will have a room. The reception will be like visiting three artists' studios.

My latest watercolor -- from a dream

Dream by Will Noble/watercolor on paper/ 38" x 24"

I had a dream a few years ago of a golden eagle carrying a tree to barren land. At the time I was so moved by the dream that I created a composite image of it in Photoshop and kept it on my studio wall.
A few months ago I finally felt I wanted to actually paint it.
There are quite a few firsts in this work for me. I have never before painted a bird. (I usually leave that to Barbara Banthien.) I have never used such washes for such large areas as this required. So this was a very different (and much shorter) experience for me.

Carmel Cypress Ink Sketch

Carmel Cypress, ink drawing by Will Noble

I continue to enjoy this period of working in my sketchbook on pieces that take a few days rather than many months. This 9" x 12" ink sketch is of a cypress tree on the California coast around Carmel. -- Will

Completion, acceptance & small works

I recently finished work on the large pencil drawing titled Peggy's Pond, perhaps the most detailed piece I have ever done. The drawing alone took a year. It was just accepted in the Artworks Downtown Drawing show juried by Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray McSweeney of SeagerGray Gallery. The show will be up from May 24 to July 5. Public reception will be June 14, 5 – 8pm. I don't have a photo of this drawing either here on the blog or on my site yet, but I hope you will come to the show to see it!
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Before I get involved in another large project, I am enjoying working in my sketchbook, doing small pencil, ink and watercolor works. Below is one of them, a view from Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore.

With an image size of 9" x 13" I was able to draw and paint it in a number of days, not months. This frees me to transition to other images and experiment with techniques.


Kehoe, a watercolor by Will Noble