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Rainy Day on the Ranch

The heavy rain thinned out to a drizzle so I hiked up behind my mom’s to check the water level at the lake. As I walked towards the dam I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was full, It reminded me of a Steinbeck quote, “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

The view down the valley to the south was rain soaked and lovely. I watched the clouds crawl down the mountains. Then after a time the rain picked up and it sent me running back to the house with another painting in hand.

9x11in oil on linen panel
Artist’s view
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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.

oil on board, 8x10in
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A Broken Home

Wakefield and the gang seek shelter from the roaring tempest in the floating rubble of an abandoned home.

Moving into a flooded house watercolor drawing
Breaking into the Condemned Red house.

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Freeing the Martyr

A few more Wakefield storyboard panels to add to the collection.

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A House of Gold

A few more pages pulled from my sketchbook.  This is part of an ongoing storm sequence from my Wakefield project

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Across the Threshold

A few more water-color doodles from my current sketchbook.

waters rising
storm surge

swept away
Swept away together

into the house
Across the threshold

into the house
coming home

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The White City

Wakefield in a bathtub
Wakefield sails his bathtub to the white city

Above is an painting I have been working on for the last few days. Not Steadily but in short little busts. It is exceptionally nice to have the ability to paint anywhere I go. I think over the last few days I put in a minute or two on this work in all sorts of places; On the train, in the car, restaurants, shoe stores, shopping malls, children’s parks and of course cafés.

I must say I do like ArtRage, It’s so handy to be able to paint on a whim. The Ipad still doesn’t replace the power of a sketchbook but I think that day is steadily approaching. Pressure sensitivity and a some sort of precise pen is greatly needed but until that day comes it does the job pretty well.

The one thing I that has been puzzling me is saving files for the web. Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find an apps that can optimize .jpgs so even though I can create art on the ipad I still have to process it all through my desktop computer. This is rather annoying to say the least. With book you just have to close it and keep it dry but all these digital mediums come with the ball and chain of file management, ugh. Its a real time waister.

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Lightning Storm

Couldn’t sleep last night thanks to the storm outside the window here in Ma On Shan. Half asleep I mechanically stumbled through the dark and rigged a quick time-lapse setup. I wish I had been more prepared and awake. The camera batteries were at half, the drive was near full, the window glass was dirty and I didn’t have a tripod. A lot of mistakes for an old photog like me but eh, I still managed to get a few lightning bolts so I guess it worked out.

In case you’re wondering that’s Tai Po Kau and the Tolo Harbour in the background.