Onyx Hills - A Southern California landscape -- Southern Sierras by Marian Fortunati

Onyx Hills

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Our girls' painting adventure was almost over.  We were heading home... this time heading east toward Mojave instead of south toward Bakersfield.  Leaving Kern and Lake Isabella and heading east past Walker Pass is a little town called Onyx nestled up against the yellow hills.  As we headed home, we passed farmland with picturesque old barns and many paintable spots, but the long shadows cast across the hills of the late afternoon near Onyx were where we stopped for our last plein air painting of the trip. 

We had once again been attracted by the rabbitbush and the buckwheat which spread out across the area.   This time, the buckwheat was more mature and had lost most of the rust color which seems to precede a pale wheat colored puff.  

Two of us looked south and the others looked north.  We painted until the light was too dim to paint and then headed home... happy after a wonderful painting trip in the Southern Sierras.

We were all tired but satisfied with our three-day adventure together and vowed to return for another season and another time enjoying fellowship and the joy of painting in beautiful places together.

 

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