California

This painting is a study in “green” and atmospheric perspective.  Adding purple with green is a color combination that works well for the cool side of the valley.  Using this combination against the warm greens on the sunlight side allows me to explore color harmony in a way I don’t usually try.  These small studies […]

We arrived at dawn and set up to begin painting.  It was a beautiful morning, a big contrast from where we were two days earlier in Zion National Park, where it was 20 degrees.  I liked this scene at the beginning of the beach hike.  The river was making a cut in the purple-colored sand