San Geronimo Valley community center spring art show

 

Four quick oil paint sketches, 8x10" the

Thinking my painting for the SGV Spring Art Show was due on Tax Day, and wanting to test my newish Gamblin oil paints, I banged out four quick canvases while sitting in my car. Plein car. They were wet when I took the photos. Mt. St Helena from Sonoma Mountain is glistening, it's so wet. I haven't touched oil paints in 50 years, an allergy to turpentine made it impossible to breathe. Now there's Gamsol, a mineral oil, which opens up possibilities. Larry Rippe said no, you have two weeks. Reprieve. Sneaky Larry. I'm always late turning in my assignments.would I have done these four paintings? Had I known I had more time? Probably not. Carpe diem.

Loma Alta, oil painting, 8 x 10"

 

Oil reworking of a failed acrylic piece. Still failed, it needs a glaze, but I like the green.