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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Two New Mount Diablo Paintings

Twisted Mountain(Mt Diablo) 14 x 21 watercolor Mount Diablo from Lafayette
Magee Ranch Tapestry(Mt Diablo) 14 x 21 watercolor Mount Diablo from the Magee Ranch Subdivision
This winter's drought yielded some paintings that look more like summer! These were painted in January before the rains. The cold air was clear, so the shapes on the mountain have a certain crispness I enjoy. Both were started outside and finished in the studio where I saturate the colors.

Twisted Mountain: SOLD Fairmont Gallery , Sonoma. Magee Ranch Tapestry:SOLD Portnoy Galleries, Carmel

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow! Luscious, ripe with color paintings of Mt. D. I love your work!

Barbara Muir said...

Robin,

These are just knock out beautiful.
I have no idea how you do this in watercolour, but your work is amazing.

Barbara