California Art Club "Signs of Spring, opening Jan 16. showing "Tejon Ranch Spring"

Tejon Ranch Spring 14 x 18

Signs of Spring: A day in the Garden Jan 16 to May 20

Reception Thurs Jan 18 5:30 to 7:30

The Old Mill. San Marino

See the entire exhibit here:
https://www.californiaartclub.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/signs-of-spring

Seven Layers of Spring, painted on Mount Diablo

Seven Layers of Spring

The dark pine-covered ridge was the perfect foil for the early spring oaks and poppies.
This was painted on Mount Diablo on Northgate Road looking down from the poppy meadow and across to the western ridges of the peninsula. there's not enough elevation to see it , but the San Francisco Bay is in between the last two ridges.

Poppy Paintings

Poppy Meadow 14 x 14

Windy Day Poppies 24 x 18

These were painted a while ago, just getting around to posting. Available The Fairmont Gallery, Sonoma CA

"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.

"Late Bloomers" ,Plein air watercolor, painted on Mount Diablo

"Late Bloomers" 14 x 14 .
Got the last of the poppies on Mt Diablo before the heat hit this week.