It's hot out with a mini Santa Ana blowing hot air off the desert onto the coast. This landscape painter doesn't like it one bit! It's too hot to be standing out there painting... or maybe I'm a wimp. So I'm comfortably installed in my home studio painting up a storm at a very comfortable temperature. I dunno... maybe I do my best work in the studio.
Was reading the most recent newsletter from the California Art Club by Jean Stern about the rise of plein air painting on location and the decrease in popularity of larger more fully realized studio paintings. She wrote that studio paintings have always been the natural end product informed by smaller studies done on site. She felt that too many local painter's groups focused attention on small studies and ignore larger works completed in the studio informed by the small studies. She makes an excellent point.
Here are two more studio paintings for your entertainment. Think I'll be working in the studio for a time to see what comes of it:)
"California Coast in Spring", 14 by 18 inches, Oil on stretched canvas. SOLD
"El Capitain Resevoir", 14 by 18 inches, oil on stretched canvas. SOLD