Looking west towards my uncle Fred’s house from the junkyard overlook after sunset.
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From the Junkyard
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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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Looking back
Before dinner I rode the four wheeler over to the lookout and painted the view back towards the Sheehy and Miller plots. Classic late Sonoma summer weather. It was hot, windy and dry as a bone up on the ridge. Too bad it’s only May. Well, Its looks like it’s going to be one hell of a long fire season. 1.5hr
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Roj’s garden
I painted the garden behind the pool house while the twins went for a swim with their cousins. 2hr color study.
Plein Air 1.5hr Study of one of the ponds on the family ranch.
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By the pool
I took the boys for a swim and was able to get a quick oil sketch in.
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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.
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The old oak painting
After a twenty year dry spell I’ve started painting in oil again. For a brief time in college I gave it a go but life on the road made it an impractical medium for me. Instead I spent the last twenty years with my nose to a computer. Over the last few months I’ve fallen in love with the medium again. It’s both a struggle and a joy remembering how to use it. I never had any formal training in oil so I’m I’m starting from scratch. I’ve been watching YouTube videos on everything from brush care to oiling out canvas. I’m having a great time. I love all the added complexities oil painting brings.