No. 850 Sleeping Solar Lanterns

Sleeping Solar Lanterns

Oil on Canvas Panel

5" x 7"

I adore solar lanterns. If I had my way my backyard would be full of them :) This is most of my collection peacefully hibernating until sunnier days.

Day 71

 

Winter Afternoon in Snohomish

Oil on Ampersand Gessobord

5 x 7

Plein Air

 

 A lesson was learned painting this picture. I am not cut out

to paint a winter sunset. I was so cold after painting this

that I considered giving up plein air painting in the winter all

together. It's actually pretty tolerable if you can situate yourself

so your standing in the sun. Once that sun goes down though -

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  

Day 55

Oil on Canvas

5 x 7

Plein Air

 

 

This morning I woke up to find it had frosted so hard

it almost looked like snow. It was so pretty

my first thought was, "I should go out and do a painting

of some of that beauty!" My second thought was, "Dang,

it looks REALLY cold out there." So I stayed in my cozy,

warm house. In the afternoon I did buck up and head out to paint.

I returned to my new spot near Snohomish. The painting above

is from my first excursion there. Unfortunately, today the sky

was blue everywhere but over the mountains.