In Search Of Flowers
"Paramount Hills"
12"x16" Oil on Canvas
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Ever since I went to Pt. Dume a month or so ago and sat high on the hill overlooking the ocean amid the gloriously blooming coreopsis, I have been searching for more beautiful fields of spring flowers. I'm afraid I'll miss them as our SoCal spring is usually really brief. I read online that Paramount Ranch usually had wildflowers and when I drove up this morning, I saw that the mustard fields were just beginning to spring up... not quite in their full glory yet.
So I just went in to the area around the old western town to explore around until I settled on a scene I liked... There were no fields of colorful flowers, but there were beautiful colors in the hills and trees just the same. I really enjoyed myself. I had decided to try going larger. For the last several plein air sessions I've been painting on 11x14s and have done okay. So I went a bit bigger ... on a 12x16. -- Always trying to stretch myself.
The Park Rangers worked all around me clearing and cleaning -- getting ready for a movie shoot scheduled later in the day. As I was working on the last bits and almost ready to clean up a bit after noon one of the rangers came over, made a nice comment about my work, and then suddenly froze. He pointed ahead and we both watched as a rattlesnake crossed the cleared ground about 8 feet from where I was working. I went a bit closer (behind the ranger) and got a shot of him as he scooted down into the grass ditch.
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When we were in Mexico, Frank Gardner had set up his easel for a demo.... until he discovered the shed skin of a rattler. Then (wisely we all thought) we moved closer to a road. We never saw the rattlesnake in Mexico.... Today was a different matter. The ranger said that this is the time the snakes begin to come out to sun, but that most of the time, they try to stay away from people, if they hear things like people or animals around them. (like the rattler did today when he heard the ranger coming his way.) I'm just happy the ranger saw him... I never did. I was too busy painting.I may tweak this a bit...after it has a chance to simmer, but for the most part I'm am very pleased with it.
I hope you had a great day too!
I hope you had a great day too!
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