West Sac Deep Water Channel

Windy + irate bees = very challenging day. Interesting spot, really raw and surreal. I'd like to go back but under better conditions. West Sacramento is more interesting by the moment.

miniatures

I'm sending these off for another project.

Two pictures from today out at the Ranger's Station on the west side of the bypass. It was hot and I didn't realize it but I was actually parked at one of the rangers' houses and he came out to check out what I was doing there. Than another ranger came by on a little truck and asked me again. I won't be going back there.

Late August

This a-painting-a-day thing is not happening, so it's become a-painting-whenever-I-can.

Two attempts at the same scene. The other day, driving around, I found three places I had no idea were there. Yolo County has many surprises, no matter which direction you go. If you aren't looking, you will miss most all of them. This space has a lagoon and lots of wildlife. It's hidden away where you'd never even think to go.

The smaller painting ((6 X 6) upper image), is the first one I tried. It's on Ampersand board and I am not used to it. I wasn't liking the surface, but I will do a few more on these. Once I got it home, the effect is not bad. It just feels different than plywood boards, less absorbant, more resistant to the paint sticking to it. Could just be my imagination. The second painting (8 X 10), was on gessoed plywood and there I was practicing speed painting. I wouldn't mind coming back to these, or going out there again at a different time of day, maybe evening.

South end of campus near Raptor Center. It was 101 degrees by the time I packed it up at 1:30.

Outer UCD campus looking west toward Vacaville hills.

I have more to do on this. Not the most successful time I've spent.

Today's painting. It was rough trying to find a spot to work, but I finally settled on this church again, but from a better angle.