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| Island Color - 14x11 |
On
the 2012 visit to the Channel Islands with David Gallup and a group of
artists and adventurers, our first stop was faraway Santa Barbara
Island. I'm told that in the springtime, these hills are alive with
wildflowers. I imagine the coreopsis are spectacular. But this
September, the windswept hills were ablaze with a beautiful but
non-native red-orange ice plant. The rangers said that they were trying
to eradicate it.
Pity... I thought it was gorgeous.
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I apologize to those of you who wanted to
know a bit more about our Channel Islands adventure. I WILL get things
posted, but I've been REALLY busy with trying to get ready for my
show. (I hope that if you can, you'll come on by to see the work..)
I've also had class, and meetings, and a paint out that I didn't want to miss. Oh... And by far not the LEAST problem... was that I caught a miserable cold on the night of the first day of this trip (probably from hiking and painting in the wind... or maybe I had it all along...) but it sort of dampened my spirit. I still had fun... Did as much kayaking and snorkeling and hiking and painting as I could... but.. well, you know how colds are...
Anyway.. this painting isn't plein air. I'll post those in the next days (after I hang my show at Gale's in Pasadena on Saturday). I painted this from a combination of several reference photos I took from my hike with painter friends on Santa Barbara Island. What a beautiful place!
I've also had class, and meetings, and a paint out that I didn't want to miss. Oh... And by far not the LEAST problem... was that I caught a miserable cold on the night of the first day of this trip (probably from hiking and painting in the wind... or maybe I had it all along...) but it sort of dampened my spirit. I still had fun... Did as much kayaking and snorkeling and hiking and painting as I could... but.. well, you know how colds are...
Anyway.. this painting isn't plein air. I'll post those in the next days (after I hang my show at Gale's in Pasadena on Saturday). I painted this from a combination of several reference photos I took from my hike with painter friends on Santa Barbara Island. What a beautiful place!
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