(OH, the Fair’s new try, “Professional Class” and had a “for sale” class. I got “best of medium,” for oils, “Professional” Class-
as I THINK I mentioned in the summer, it was impossible to view the works there….I SWEAR, if I’d smuggled in an original Monet, or Van Gogh, you wouldn’t necessarily have noticed it.
12×12 oil, “Sweetwater Oaks”
Monday afternoon, new location, ya gotta give me “a dollar and a quarterrrrrrr” for THIS location….will refresh with richer y/o oils at home-
9×12 Oil sketch
I drove around looking for fall focal points & awaiting after 2PM light….hard to find vertical trees turning colors in abundance, all clearcut vineyard-areas I guess. Well, NOW I know where Sonoma County tall trees are.
9×12 Study, will add another traditional oil coat later, w/better yellow-oranges ;^D
Monday, Dry Creek Valley, Healdsburg, conditions were sublime….
THOUGHT I had a good start, though had to go V FAST, arriving at 10, Twin Hills Ranch vista east. I thought 12×12 would work, alone, dark shadows of oak trees, their temp changes on edges, simplified color spots for vineyards, distant oak studded hills, etc. BUT wiped it out twice, then tacked up a 2nd 12×12, it kind of works alone….the right being SO blurry it needs a sharpening, I suppose, somewhere….and MORE.
12×24 (with 2 piece)
Calistoga Paint out, reception & results today, here’s the 4th one I did in the last 2 days of painting-
October exuberance by the 1905 Greenwood Bridge, off Myrtlewood. Started with the driveway on a 12×12 panel, then a 12×16 to take in more of the vineyard & hint of distant hills.
HAD to go thick paint & I feel one has to go large & generous to attempt to portray the absolute abundance of the light & color out there, short lived but jamming!
Alas, with all the sizes of panels & frames, inventories & loaded up at dawn around feral kitten catching attempts, yawn, I neglected to bring TWO 12×16’s, so had to choose between my top 2 to enter. I entered this one, (need to update pix of the others at block in state), reception this afternoon, see who won.
12 x16, “October Exuberance”
Die-hards met up at Bodega cemetery today….the sprinkles were quite doable, a lovely day, after all, OIL n’ water don’t mix…..
Firepokers n’ Drizzle, 9×12
Bodega Head, mid day study of rocks with those blue-green phthlo-influenced waters….compelling cools vs warms….
scraped off thick foreground, like how the linen looks better now-
Bodega Head Rocks, 11×14
Bodega Bay, tidal edges today, SO much going on in sublime conditions-
Low Tide Marsh
66 degrees, little wind, bird watchers stopping breathlessly to shoot the white pelicans, sanderians (?), looking for the rumored blue boobie (?) …. a birding couple in a kayak for 2…. OH, a sailboat, those warm colors in the flora
OH, and the acrylic pieces, I THINK there was only 3 artists, 2 of whom got awards, uh oh,
First place, fairly large, 15″ square maybe? Great big brush strokes, love that approach
- 2nd place acrylic, Liz Reardon
I did 2-3 works per day, here’s an attempt at Ft Bragg’s Noyo Harbor last Wednesday morning, feral cats down there TOO, oh my-
Noyo Harbor,I hope they’re “fixed”
- DIdn’t hang/show this one, may still work on it/fix, 12×16
Wow, though blurry eyed from working plein air & the logistics of having no studio space, i.e. framing in the gutter next to car, I TOOK a lot of pictures-
thought I got all the awards, now I don’t see any second-place awards and such, hopefully the Center will share result photos soon. Other local painters that participated were: Deborah Cushman, Donna DeLaBriandais, Angel Fabela, Serjio Lopez, Kath Root and Sterling Hoffman….really nice pieces. I think Donna and Angel sold one.
Donna DeLaBriandais
- Sergio Lopez
- Angel Fabela
MOPO First Place pastel, Francine Hurd of Santa Rosa
MOPO first place pastel
MOPO, cannot find 2nd nor 3rd place oil pictures, uhoh, here’s Honorable Mention, Lonney Lopez of Ukiah, nice work-
OILS, First prize, she was RIGHT to the right of me, I have 2 photos of her work, Susan Hall, really nice work!
As she won for for the “Whale’s Tail,” the long rectangle, assuming she changed the arrow right after I took this?
“Whale’s Tail” great title!
RESULTS-Best of Show, went to Marcario Pascual for his (approx) 8×8 high key oil of a very foggy spot-
some confusion which one won, but as I spoke with his wife who was adjusting his space, he was still choosing between the square foggy piece and the Cypress Grove piece, Thursday afternoon 3PM, your arrow had to point to the piece to be judged by 4pm.
FOR FUN, here’s a guy painting out on the point, still sunny, hm mm, Tuesday I think-
sunny moment
Tenacity or foolishness?
6×12, had to paint THAT guy
Big River, looking out, thought this was a good scene, um, back on Wednesday afternoon, after trying Noyo Harbor in Ft Bragg…
Skipping around the timeline….
Big River to thee Pacific, 12×12
Mendocino Headlands, so many spots, fog alighting then gone, mostly stayed IN but there were moments shortly after sunrise-
SO having avoided painting any of those “tunnels,” or “arches” yet, even at home off Jenner, I was set up pre-sunrise, Thursday, Sept 11th, by 6:30.
12×16 oils
Mendocino Sunrise, Day One of Paint out, I was up & set up looking southeast at Big River, well, it was excellent to SEE it, to paint such,
is one of those impossible things to do live, I suppose….
Confluence with Big River
Yep, not all plein air work MUST be alla prima AND one day; here’s day 2, 4-6 ish, Tuesday-
Queen Anne Lace August
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