Malibu Creek Reflections

This is the finish of a 12"x 16" oil painting I did as a demonstration for my Friday Landscape Class at Malibu Creek. The week before last we started with a sky that had some fairly big clouds which are my favorite. So alot of what I did in the painting that week I pretty much left it alone. The second week I mostly worked on the lower part of the painting cause the wind was blowing fairly hard. That of course meant that the reflections were extremely subtle. You had to be patience and wait for the calm in order to observe the reflections and then paint them in. Although I really like this composition I was really drawn to this location because of the reflections.