Bert Collins' West Hills Ojai Gallery

08/22/2024

Some watercolor sketches from my sketchbook. These are Plein air. Doing these in the natural setting begins to train my eye to see and interpret color. The immediate experience of the setting engages the senses with direct impressions.

03/19/2024

Recommmed exploring Archive for amazing books.
This is a very old book on how to do—-. Pen and ink drawing.

A short list of books: p. 79-80

09/15/2021

My art!

03/25/2020

Just for fun, watch as I paint this pretty little picture in no time at all. And you can do it too. WANT MORE like this. I have a FREE on line course where y...

10/29/2018

Jannene Morison-Behl will be covering classes at the studio for a few weeks.

09/21/2018

John Lennon wrote “Half of what I say is meaningless, But I see it all to reach you, Julia” I think this is the life of the blogger and the artist. Perhaps half of what we say is meanin…

09/18/2018

Free online art seminars.

11/18/2017

I worked on this playful painting yesterday under Bert’s artistic eye. First laying in a vine charcoal under painting and then adding pastels. Thank you Bert!!!!❤️❤️❤️

07/12/2016

Bert is always encouraging me, Renita, to try new things. I appreciate her optimistic and venturesome personality.

06/30/2016

We celebrated Bert's 88th birthday today with a lunch and dessert. Very lively lovely time.

06/02/2016

This week a great Wednesday with Bert. She helped fix this !