Clouds Over Diablo 10x20" oil on canvas
I finished this piece this week so that it could be in the preview show for the Open Studio Tour. I had my Diablo Summer in the brochure but it was too large to be in the preview exhibit. I tried to remember where I was when I painted Diablo Summer. I will never paint the exact same thing twice, but this was on purpose. I felt the public looking at the brochure might want to see something very similar at the exhibit. Just being at a different place in your life, and a different mood, and a different day and temperature will of course make the painting different. Nature itself changes. Going back to a location, the mountain is still there, but vegetation changes, or was I at the exact same location? I hike all over, and my field notes get scribbly the more excited I get. I will forget to write what trail I was on, but I will remember to note the temperature, the color of the grass, the color of the sky, cobalt, or prussian blue?
Now the trick is to get this painting dry enough to exhibit it on Friday! I have set the painting out in the warm sun everyday this week to accelerate the drying time. Having unseasonably cool weather has not helped. It is just dry enough to the touch today, just still wet on the edges. Darn titanium white takes the longest to dry, and that is what I mixed with blue for the sky.
Contact me if you want to see me at the Open Studios Tour in Alamo. Or go to ADAS4art.org and click on events and them on Open Studios and look at the map. I am on it! There is close to 90 artists participating this year.
Until my next post, enjoy the art!
Sketching in my moleskine book in Yosemite National Park.
