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I'll be headed later today to Sonoma county for the annual Sonoma Plein Air festival, and will be exhibiting a week's worth of work in the county next Saturday, May 22, in Sonoma Plaza, along with many other fellow artists such as Terry Miura, Paul Kratter, Randy Sexton, Carol Hesse-Low, and Tim Horn. Below are a few pieces from the last month or so from over my back fence, and one from the shadowed recesses of Pinehurst Rd., which is awash in forget-me-nots for a brief period of time. Hope to see some of you in the plaza next Saturday. Hope we get some good weather, or mist and local color will be prevalent.
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7 comments:
wonderful tempratures!
man that blue on the first one is amazing!
Thanks for posting these and also, good luck at Sonoma. Hope you have a minute to take some photos. Being stuck in the "middle", I miss lots of great things!
Forget me nots are wonderful.
Thanks everyone for your comments. I'll put out a post on my week in Sonoma soon. I hope to try some more
forget-me-not paintings before the bloom is over.
It is an unreal color in the green shadows, but maybe I overdid it a bit on that one image!
Of course these are all good, but the second one I really love.
Thanks Jala, That whole hill is now yellow, and a tractor has plowed a swath partly up it for fire control.
Near sunset, the light and shadow values can get very close to each other, but I think these one's are a little too close. The shadow went up that hill faster than I expected, so I was mainly painting shadows, and it is easy to start brightening them in the absence of a stronger light.
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