"The Pass", oil on canvas
14" x 11"
painted en plein air 12.9.11
"In the San Bernardinos", oil on canvas
14" x 11"
painted en plein air 12.10.11
Some places call to you from a long way back, and these are two of those spots! It may seem like the 'nostalgia tour' when I go back to the desert and paint, however, that's pretty much exactly what it is. The first painting, "The Pass" is the setting of a former favorite hiking spot in a canyon out at the San Gorgonio pass, on the south side. The mountains in the background are the San Bernardino Mountains with San Gorgonio peak in the background.
"The Pass" is so personal for me I don't think I'm putting a price on it. I won't go into lengthy stories now about Ed, my former landlord hiking up San Gorgonio peak (11,500') to ski down the mountain, or of going to summer camp up in the San Bernardino Mountains, or waterskiing and boating in the lakes up there. Or my mother-in-law having a small ranch, with large house and a little pony in the pasture located out in the pass area, but there's lots of personal history for me in this area! Endless.
The second painting is from another great picnic spot. Whitewater Canyon: great for picnicking, trout fishing and Sunday getaways . . . this canyon is where the Whitewater River courses down the canyon year round.
One really big caution for Whitewater Canyon - if you go, take bug spray due to the many, many, very persistent small flies. They bite. I wore long sleeves, pants, painting gloves and sprayed the brim of my hat with bugspray. My husband Jim wore shorts and no bug spray. The bites on his legs are still visible and swollen 2 full weeks later .. . the ranger at the Preserve here said flies are always present due to the wetlands. Yow!
"The Pass" is so personal for me I don't think I'm putting a price on it. I won't go into lengthy stories now about Ed, my former landlord hiking up San Gorgonio peak (11,500') to ski down the mountain, or of going to summer camp up in the San Bernardino Mountains, or waterskiing and boating in the lakes up there. Or my mother-in-law having a small ranch, with large house and a little pony in the pasture located out in the pass area, but there's lots of personal history for me in this area! Endless.
The second painting is from another great picnic spot. Whitewater Canyon: great for picnicking, trout fishing and Sunday getaways . . . this canyon is where the Whitewater River courses down the canyon year round.
One really big caution for Whitewater Canyon - if you go, take bug spray due to the many, many, very persistent small flies. They bite. I wore long sleeves, pants, painting gloves and sprayed the brim of my hat with bugspray. My husband Jim wore shorts and no bug spray. The bites on his legs are still visible and swollen 2 full weeks later .. . the ranger at the Preserve here said flies are always present due to the wetlands. Yow!
painting "The Pass"
getting in the shapes, the darks and foreground of
"In the San Bernardinos"
almost finished
warm enough to hang out in the shade
one of my most favorite things - hanging out
near a desert willow & painting in the desert
While there we picked up the paintings from the 'Elements' show which had a good run from Oct. through mid-December. Somehow, though, maybe because water was the element for my paintings, each time we moved those paintings around it had to rain sometime during the moving day!!
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