Donald Neff Weblog

We had quite a bit of rain several weeks ago and the local newspaper wrote an article about the area waterfalls which were flowing quite briskly. Top of their list was Uvas Canyon Park, which I had not visited since 2004, so it was about time. Uvas Canyon Park is nestled in upper Uvas Canyon [...]

I just received a flyer via email from the producers of the upcoming Los Gatos Plein Air. I hope a lot of the ‘locals’ will see the show which is May 28-30, 2009. Of note is they used my painting in the flyer from their last show in 2004…

Much of the artwork for the Nomadas Del Arte show is now up on the Southwest Gallery website. Each artist had a year to paint two plein air paintings for the show opening in Dallas in a couple of weeks. I hear some paintings have already sold! Both of my works are of Lake Tahoe. [...]

The California Art Club was founded in 1909 with a primary purpose to promote the fine arts in the fields of painting, drawing and sculpture referred to as traditional and representational art. In recent years, every quarter year, they have a “paintout”, and today I attended at Lake Chabot, in the eastern foothills of San [...]

I just received word I was accepted into this national plein air show, now the fourth year in a row. The first year I entered, I was honored with Best In Oils, but nothing since. This makes two plein air shows I will be participating in May, the Los Gatos Plein Air May 28-30, and [...]