Sunlight And Shadow

Another fabulous sunny (but chilly) spring day here. A great day to paint! 6x8

Al Fresco Lunch

This is another painting from the Carmel Art Festival. On this day, I decided to warm up and found a spot where the sun was thinking of shining! While I painted this scene with the nice road & a few lupines, a whole herd of cows came and watched me paint! These are a few of the first ones. Later on, they must have phoned all their friends because there was quite a crowd. Painting outside is a lot of fun!

The Sentinel, Carmel

This is one of the paintings I did for the Carmel Art Festival (May 12-16). Naturally, I forgot to take a photo so this picture is one I got off the Art Festival web site. It was painted Wednesday night right after we got our canvasses stamped and it was freezing and gloomy. Everything was grey-blue except for the little bit of rapidly disappearing light at the horizon.

Lupines in the Valley

A fabulous day with puffy clouds and trails of lupines and poppies in the grass!

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Sunset, Carmel

I have been waiting for a fabulous sunset to paint and they have all been pretty dull. However, the sky was pretty nice and I painted this in the 20 minutes it took my husband to run into town for pizza! We were all happy!

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Safe Harbor

I painted this in Monterey, California on Wharf #2 at about 9 at night. There were so many great lighting effects and, of course, the little red boat!

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Carmel Mission in Winter

So here I am painting the mission again. It is a really hard building to paint probably because it is entirely hand made. We are so used to buildings with everything at perfect right angles and so on that we tend to have trouble with this kind of architecture.

And not only that, I left out the bird sitting on the side of the dome!

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