For those of you who live in the Santa Barbara area...and care about this sort of thing :)....I have a few pieces up for the month of November at Gallery 113 in Santa Barbara. The First Thursday reception is tomorrow night (Nov 4). I'm a little ashamed to say that I've never even been to one of these first thursday events, tomorrow will be the first, but I hear it's a great time.
Here's another in my little Linden series. It was SO gorgeous outside! It had rained and rained, and that morning the sun was finally breaking through some of the best clouds I've ever seen. I had wanted to paint this cottage for a long time, but could never decide how to do it. The colors in the sky that day kind of brought it all together for me.
Here's a larger version of the painting I did last week. The panel I painted this one made it turn out very shiny, I'm not sure why, but the same thing happened with yesterday's plein air painting.
I confronted my fear the other day and set up outside to paint. I enjoyed it SO much, even though it was windy, and strangely cloudy (really high clouds that made the ocean brown!). I love my plein air set up, I think I made a great choice, it was just as comfortable as painting in my studio.
I was nervous about what would happen when I brought the painting inside...would the colors be way...
