Eucalyptus

"Eucalyptus"

5" X 7" Oil on Panel
A study in eucalyptus trees with afternoon light. I am playing with adjusting late afternoon light and pushing that look and "feel" of that particular time of day. I like afternoon light but it is hard to capture if you are painting plein air. I am concentrating on it in the studio to speed thing up out there in the field. I'm using up the last of my Lukas paint on a lot of these small paintings. I've got an order in to try out some Utrecht paint. I've been wanting to do that for a long time now and finally got around to ordering some of their paint the other day. Yesterday I ordered some new large canvases for gallery work to be done. I'm going to try out some Fredrix Red Label canvases. Lots of trying things out soon.
$100.00

California Spring

"California Spring"

5" X 7" Oil on Panel

From looking at this hear this painting seems to be much larger than it's 5"x7" size. I like squeezing in as much real estate on a small painting to see what the limits are...and I haven't found them yet! I sat down to paint this one using nothing but my imagination. I wanted to paint a scene of what I feel areas of the Central Coast would have looked like before they became settled. I miagine it would have looked much like this scene...wide open valleys splattered with massive eucalyptus trees and poppies lining the valley floors in springtime...a California Spring.

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Santa Ynez

"Near Santa Ynez"

5"x7" Oil on panel

"Artist License"...I love taking liberty of that rule in art. Artist License allows an artist to change, adjust,edit, omit, add...you get the idea, any part of a painting as they choose in order to make a painting work better. I took it here omitting many of the ranch fences and buildings you see in our valley. I like that wide open space feel in a valley scene so you do what works.

The Santa Ynez valley is really a beautiful place located just above Santa Barbara. Originally the Chumash Indians inhabvited the valley and mountains surounding it....then came the missionaries and the rest of the world after that. Today it is mostly horse ranches, vineyards, farming and a few small towns so it's pretty laid back still.

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Hillside Eucalyptus

"Hillside Eucalyptus"

5"x7" Oil on panel

A little closer view of a "Euc". I like placing a nice tall vertical subject on a diagonal foreground such as this hillside. Honestly I think it comes from going camping with my family when I was a kid. My brother and I would go hiking away from the campsite wandering through large pinetrees in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena. Charlton Flats, Barton Flats, Chilao Campground...upper and lower...all very cool and familiar places of many moons ago.

$100.00