Donald Neff Weblog

After having been out of town for quite awhile, I am finally getting around to finishing the large work of Iguassu Falls. I have been posting a bit on my Facebook artist page here, and previously in this weblog here. One of the methods many artists use to aid in making sure their values are [...]

Many of you know I took a trip to South America earlier this year, and spent two days at Iguassu Falls, both on the Argentinian and Brazilian side. You can read about the entire trip here. The falls is such an awe inspiring natural wonder, it is really hard to take in. To paraphrase Eleanor [...]

Prologue: As mentioned in my previous blog, I originally intended to write one blog entry a day during last weeks workshop with Marc Hanson at Scottsdale Artists’ School, but for some reason could not upload pictures to my weblog from my laptop. For those who follow me on Facebook, I was able to upload some [...]

I have now done 9 of the 12 paintings in the new series introduced in a previous blog post. I am painting each one to about 60-80% complete, then will finish them at once so-as to ensure continuity and progression of colors, and values, etc. The series is 12 paintings (maybe a few more before [...]

Last week I started a series of twelve paintings. I won’t reveal exactly what the subject is, but the series comes from a 15 minute experience I had in August of 2006. I actually started the series then, just sketching on each canvas, but shelved it until now. Now that it is revealed, I will [...]

This is the painting mentioned in the previous blog from my motorcycle travels down Highway 25 south of Hollister, CA. It is just about done. I will let it sit for a week or two, and then finish a few details. Right now I am titling this “Hollister”, but might change that once it goes [...]

One of my favorite motorcycle rides in the bay area is Highway 25 south of Hollister, California. It is a great motorcycle road out in the middle of nowhere with wide sweeping curves and long straightaways. We usually do it 3 or 4 times a year. I have actually done several short videos on the [...]

OK, this is the last post about this painting. After I returned from the Carmel Art Festival, I realized the entire painting looked too ‘busy’, so I took out more clouds. Now there are more areas where the eye can rest. I declare it finished, but of course if it hangs around I might be [...]

Some may remember late last year I was working on a large painting of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and posting the work as it developed. (You can scroll back through this weblog and see the posts I made as the painting progressed.) I was close to finished, so stopped working on it for [...]

Introducing my new book, “Plein Tahoe“, which chronicles six years of painting Lake Tahoe in plein air. A section on Yosemite is also included. With over 45 full color reproductions of my paintings, the hardcover book comes with a full color dust jacket. For those who love Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, or my work, it would [...]