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Dry Ink

Harry Allen Trail

Freezing and windy, that about sums up this mornings painting session. It’s was as if an invisible hand flipped a switch on the weather. The morning started out pleasant and then the temperature dropped and what was a light breeze turned into a roaring gale.

Twice my painting nearly flew off the easel. At one point my pallet caught the wind just right and flipped over upon itself, splattering the oil jar across my working space. What was my reserve jar of medium was then carried away by another tempest and emptied itself into the hillside. I painted till my hands turned blue then called it quits and ran for coffee.

oil painting
9x12in oil on panel
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Dry Ink

Oaks on the hill

Well I guess summer is here. I nearly melted in the heat of the sun while painting this and the fire department drove up the hill to put out a small burn pile that got out of hand. Mad respect to Geyserville fire, they are amazing.

oil Painting
9x11in Oil on Panel
perspective view
artists view
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Dry Ink

Greenfield Ave

Hanging out on the corner of Greenfield Ave and Greenfield court looking west with Red Hill in the background and a guy with a flat tire waiting for a tow in the foreground.

oil sketch
oil on panel 9x12in
plein air
artists view
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Dry Ink

Smokey San Anselmo

Today would have been the kids third day back in school but this is 2020 so the school was closed because of bad air. The glass fire up in Napa is still raging and the smoke is now pouring into the Bay Area. Smoke means interesting landscapes though so I found my way to the El Camino Avenida overlook in San Rafael around sunset and painted the view looking back towards Red Hill and San Anselmo.

9×12 oil on panel
Artist view from perch on El Camino Avenida
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Dry Ink

New Growth

This sketch is from late January. No thanks to the Kincade fire, the family ranch had been charred black for weeks, then we had our first rain and they magically turned a brilliant shade of green. I did my best to capture it.

Interesting side note, because the fires burned back all the grass it exposed a bunch of petrified wood in the area where I’m standing.

oil painting
a drizzly day at the ranch, oil on panel 8x10in
poverties
my POV
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Comic Dry Ink

Head over heels

Dick and Don take a tumble down towards the old miners camp.

Dick and Don Comic. falling down the hill