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Indian fire Road

oil painting
oil on panel 9x11in

I rode up Indian Fire Road to do a little painting this afternoon. It was a fine warm day but that all changed when that evil shadow crawled down the mountain and draped me in its icy embrace. I might as well have been standing in a snow drift. I folded up the painting gear and sprinted for home but I couldn’t out run the chilly darkness. I was so numb it took a long hot shower to stop my teeth from rattling and my toes to thaw. This months water bill will be one for the record books.

From Indian Fire Road looking down Blithdale Ridge Fire Road and Camino Alto, Looking south towards San Francisco.

oil painting
oil on panel 9x11in
pov
artist view
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In the shade of the oaks

Oil painting
Oil on canvas, 18x24in

It was very hot and dry in Alexander Valley yesterday. I spent my afternoon standing in the shade of an oak grove on the family ranch, painting one of the oak trees that survived last years fires. The threat of fire was everywhere, still. Ash scars and burned out stumps are in the foreground. Smoke from the glass fire currently raging over the hill near Mt. Saint Helena drifted into the Valley and filled the landscape with an ominous warm haze. Once again it is a tinder box.

Oil painting
Oil on canvas, 18x24in
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Sunset View of Fires in Napa

smoke painting
oil on panel 9x12in

Drove over to China Camp after work to paint the smoke from Napa and Sonoma. It made for a rather dramatic sunset as in blew in toward Marin. Good luck to all the family’s and fire crews in the path of the fires. Stay strong.

smoke painting
oil on panel 9x12in
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Backyard Brush

oil painting
9x12in oil on panel board

I was supposed to cut down brush but instead I found the chaos lovely and picked up my brush instead. I excel at being both lazy and productive at the same time.

oil painting
9x12in oil on panel board
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Late day Summer light

Oil painting field view
In context

Just looking down my driveway

Oil on panel 9x12in
In context
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Kitchen Corner

Oil painting
Oil on board 9x12in

Lunch time Plein air, quarantine addition. Today I sketched a corner of my kitchen .

Oil on panel 9x12in
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The driveway north

plein air oil painting
9x12in oil on board

Another quarantine painting. This is the view looking down my driveway toward Terrace Ave, San Anselmo. In addition I made a time-lapse video of my painting process.

plein air oil painting
9x12in oil on board
plein air oil painting view
Painters view
Time-lapse of my painting process
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Gravel driveway

oil painting
water-based oil on panel, 8x10in

Painted on a freezing, wet and dull January morning. The boys were sick so I set up shop at grandmas house and while they watched cartoons near a lovely roaring fire I half froze to death while painting this sketch of my moms gravel driveway.

oil painting
water-based oil on panel, 8x10in
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New Growth

oil painting
a drizzly day at the ranch

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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On Ring Mountain

plein air oil painting
looking West towards Mt. Tam

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.

plein air oil painting
looking West towards Mt. Tam
plein air painting
As far as I got before they dragged me off the mountain