A Little Davenport

I have been so busy with back to back icon contracts I haven't been able to make it out for Plein Air Mondays. Just couldn't let that continue!

Woke up at the wee hours of Monday, drove to Davenport for a relaxed and delicious breakfast (the amazing bakery happens to have amazing omelets too, go figure.) Just up Hwy 1 is a great surfing beach which is also our painting beach!

I worked a tiny canvas, only 6x8 and then drove back to the studio to make... more icons!

San Juan Bautista

Another great painting location, thank you LGAA!

A bit of a ways south, but just the drive puts you into a new, relaxed mindset and for me... one ready to paint.

Well... HOT at home turned out to be OMG freezing in San Juan Bautista. Thank god for the pile of fleece that seems to make itself at home in the back of my car.

Wind and cold and wind and wind and tree blossoms falling into the paint, onto the painting... I ended up switching to the palette knife because it was easier to pick out the debris ;)

Heat Relief

It's been HOT. Dry and HOT for months. It was a great relief to be at the coast to paint this week. I feel like I was absorbing all the fog and desperately trying to bring it home!
A little painting, it was going really well, fresh and loose and then... I worked into it and lost some of that specialness. Still, pretty happy with it. But, an undue or rewind would be excellent!

Overworked I think. Wet sand is perplexing too and don't get me going on white water froth! So much to learn!

Morgan Hill Morning

One of the great things about being a part of a painting group is that you learn about new painting spots! and someone else is planning the day!

Plein Air Mondays with the LGAA (Los Gatos Art Association) met in Morgan Hill, down a side street at the end of dead end road... yes, exactly the kind of place you would not find on your own ;)