Post fathers day taco dinner painting. It’s amazing how long the light lasts in the summer. Also amazing how predictably windy it gets around sunset.
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Dusk Behind the Woodshed
Tag: mountain
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Corte Madera Town Park
I took the boys to play catch at the park today. Looking west towards Mt. Tam
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Mt. Tam from Larkspur
My internet was down so I stepped across the street to paint while I waited for it to return. I set up next to the College of Marin soccer field in the heat of a bright mid day sun. The after school soccer program was in full force to my right. It was funny to hear the difference between the 7rd grade girls soccer practice and the boys. One was was nothing but cheers of positive encouragement and the other team swore like sailors.
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Behind Uncle Jim’s
This morning I drove out to the creek behind my uncle Jim’s house and painted the view looking west. It’s still very smokey in the valley which adds a lot of depth to the landscape but it was painfully hot so I didn’t have much fun today. We are in the middle of a heat wave and I being a fool, forgot both my hat and water. By ten thirty I had had enough. 1.5hr
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Vineyard Oak in the Smoke
In was very hot and smoky in Alexander Valley this afternoon and the thick atmosphere really made the landscape pop. So much depth! I drove up above the winery and painted the view looking south until the heat overwhelmed me and I retreated back to mom’s house. I think is was 98°F by the time got back to my desk. I finished the painting looking out the window with a glass of ice water in hand and the AC to protect me. 2.5hrs
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Behind the house
Up on the hill behind moms looking east. 1.5hr color study
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Mt. Tamalpais in the smoke
Rode my bike up the ridge above San Anselmo looking for something to paint. For me, painting Mt. Tam feels a bit like a Marin artist cliche and I usually try to avoid it, but this morning it looked very impressive in its veil of smoke from the fires in Sonoma and Napa.
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On Ring Mountain
Avoiding C19, people and our iPads, my boys and I escaped the house for a hike up Ring Mountain. It was a lovely day so I started a painting of neighboring Mt. Tam but by the end of an hour the kids had lost their patience and water so I was forced to make a premature retreat to the car. Back in quarantine, I continued to clean up the painting a bit while they continued their adventuring in Minecraft.
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Buckeye Point After the Rain
It stopped raining for a bit so I drove over to China Camp State Park and painted the view looking west from Buckeye Point.
Dick and Don take a tumble down towards the old miners camp.
