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Good Morning Gunnar new watercolor of the Grand Canyon

Missing the Grand Canyon today. Here is my new painting “Good Morning Gunnar” in tribute to the genius Gunnar Widforss. This is the view he ...

Friday, November 4, 2011

Plein Air Watercolor, "October Light"

October Light  12 x 16 was painted along the back roads in the valley between Danville and just north of Livermore, I was supposed to go paint in the vineyards, but these backlit oaks were too exciting to pass by. A return to almost pure plein air, the early morning light made this a joy to paint in lavender and burnt orange.

2 comments:

peggy gatto said...

so gorgeous!!!!!!

Robin Purcell said...

Thank you Peggy, it was fun to paint because it was all there, I felt like all I had to do was edit what was in front of me.