On Geyserville Ave just south of Asti looking east towards the geysers.
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Norther Alexander Valley
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Shaver Grade in the Rain
The big storm hitting Marin took out the power at my apartment this afternoon so I went for a little adventure in the rain. I headed over to Phoenix lake to check out the overflowing spillway. On the north end of the lake I found this nice view of some redwoods on Shaver grade. This is just before the Eldridge crossroad. I probably should have painted the flooding creak behind me but I liked the light on the road better.
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New Year’s Oaks
After a few days of rain and gray, New Year’s Day brought us crisp blue skies, green grass and sunshine. It was absolutely lovely when I stepped out the door with my paints. I drove around the ranch looking for a creek to paint which led me to the spillways above my uncle Jim’s house. A short hike up the hill these oaks caught my eye and that was that. I was working with a larger panel and was only able to get a first pass in before the light changed, so I finished this one up at home.
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Figure Drawings
Every now and then I make it to the figure drawing nights at Rileystreet in San Rafael. Here is a gallery of my figure sketches from the last couple of months.
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Corte Madera from Ring Mountain
It was a sunny day cast in a veil of thin fog. I hiked around the salt mash looking for a view to paint but the misty air made all the southern and easterly views blown out and a bit too contrasty for my tastes. That killed my painting options around the apartment so I drove up to the Ring Mountain trail head off Taylor road and found something north facing I could work with.
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Salmon Creek
My brother wanted to go surfing out at Salmon Creek this morning so I tagged along to catch the sunrise. The offshore winds were really strong and stepping out of the car I could barely hold onto my painting panel. There was no way my easel was going to stand up in that wind. I came up with a pretty good workaround though, I clamped my canvas to one of the information signs next to the trailhead that leads down the cliff to the beach. That worked like a champ.
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Tam from Hal Brown Park
Stopped on the way back from the morning school drop off to paint Tam in the rain.
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Bad Batch Season 2 Trailer
More space adventures on the way. We just started working on this season when the pandemic hit and everyone had to transition to working from home. Hope everyone enjoys the show, a lot of extra work and creative problem solving went into this one.
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Bon Air Bridge
Sunset painting from the Bon Air bridge looking north towards Ross.
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Lucas Valley
A concerned friend texted me about the beautiful weather yesterday and very colorfully insisted that I better be outside painting, thankfully I was or I think I would have lost my street-cred. I texted back this painting from the Big Rock trailhead overlook above Lucas Valley and saved my rep.
