Donald Neff Weblog

Today was the last day of my short trip to Yosemite. I called Scott Burdick around 8:00 and he was already out photographing the morning light, and getting ready to paint. I went out to join him in a meadow fairly close to Yosemite Lodge. It was 27 degrees out. By the time I got [...]

Since I had only gotten about 3 hours of sleep prior to coming to Yosemite, I decided to sleep in today. During the winter, the sun doesn’t really start hitting the valley in a consistent way until mid morning anyway. After a late breakfast, I decided to paint a famous turnout called Valley View. With [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am off to Yosemite today. I decided to post to my blog after the trip, so am writing this several days later. I had a fitful nights sleep, but managed to get on the road around 6:00 am. By the time I was going over Pacheco Pass [...]

I am off to Yosemite Park tomorrow for two nights and three days of plein air painting. Most every year I get a special coupon where I get one night free for every night paid. It is too much to pass up, so here we go! The weather is supposed to be clear, but cold. [...]

Coyote Peak stands like a sentinel guarding the southern gate to the Silicon Valley in South San Jose. It dominates the ridge of the Santa Teresa Hills and greets visitors approaching the Bay Area from the south. The peak is part of the mostly wild and undeveloped lands protected by Santa Teresa County Park. The [...]

Here is another painting of Crater Lake finished over the holidays. I show in a gallery at Lake Tahoe, so I do a lot of Lake Tahoe paintings, which tend to sell quite well. The colors are similar, so I have been somewhat “at home” painting Crater Lake. The blues in Crater Lake are deeper [...]

I didn’t do much painting over the holidays, but managed to finish a couple paintings of Crater Lake. I did a motorcycle trip last summer through Oregon, and this is one of the studio paintings from that trip.

For the past four years, I have been keeping a weblog on my website, done entirely “by hand”. I decided to switch to a more standard, “professional” setup. This will allow my weblog to be searched by the blogging search engines, allow RSS feeds, comments, and other features I just didn’t want to do by [...]