Poppies Above the Bay and Morning Glow selected for the California Art Club 106th Gold Medal Exhibit

Poppies Above the Bay 21 x 21

Morning Glow 9 x 12

The California Art Club 106th Gold Medal Exhibition will be at the Autry Museum of the American West from April 8 to 30th with several events during the exhibit.

Artists' Gala Reception, Saturday April 8

Figurative Demonstration, Sunday April 9

Lecture and Tour , April 22

Paint and Sculpt Out , April 30th.

For those of you in the Los Angeles area, The Autry Museum of the American West is located at
4700 Western Heritage Way. It is open every day during the exhibit except Mondays. For more information about the  events, please visit:

 https://www.californiaartclub.org/exhibitions/annual-gold-medal-juried-exhibition

This is my seventh consecutive time accepted to this exhibit, to see all the paintings I've exhibited, please visit

https://robinpurcellpaints.blogspot.com/p/california-art-club-gold-medal.html

"Poppies Above the Bay", new plein air watercolor of Mount Diablo

Poppies Above the Bay 21.5 x 21.5

We had so much rain this year and the Wild Flowers did so well, it was like painting in a giant garden. Along with "Blue Ridge" and the other two Mount Diablo paintings I recently posted below, it's a series of large square paintings giving me an excuse to paint in the same place for multiple days in a row. These each represent two or three times on Diablo. And because the poppies open later I get to paint later in the day.
The green is virtually gone now, but I really appreciated it, having had several winters where there was only a trace.