This last Sunday was the first day of the First Annual Sacramento Plein Air Festival. This is the very first plein air event I've been in. I was out Sunday painting en plein air on a lazy street of a tiny delta farm town named Courtland (famous for it's annual Pear Fair in the middle of July when the average temperature at that time is a 100! They still draw a good crowd!!). It was somewhat breezy so I painted in the shelter of the back of my gas guzzling Toyota Forerunner. No problem parking any old where on the street of a tiny farm town...quiet, no traffic, few people except for the street dog taking it easy in front of an old empty Roman Classic-style bank building that hasn't seen life in decades. It was a fine day communing with dog and bank.
6 comments:
Very nice David! Again I like your foreground.
Thanks, David. Yep, painting a "simple" paved road like that is a challenge.
A Greek temple with a stop sign. Real Americana-the sublime with the bizaar! Well done sir!
Thanks Davida (Lifeartist). If only you could see the ramshackled neighborhood it sits in! A real diamond in the rough effect.
Forgive me, I missed the medium and size (although I can sort of see the size in the one shot of the easel). Is this acrylic? Or oil. I love this and can't believe it is your first en plein air!!! Wow. I love your work.
Any painting with a dog in it is my fa-vor-rite. ;-)
Paz
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