Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, January 19th

We had an impressive turnout for this paintsite considering how cold it was! Our shivering artists were rewarded with wonderful Egyptian architecture to paint. After lunch we visited the Triton Museum and the viewed the 2011 Statewide Painting Exhibition.

Anna Jacke

Caroline Garborino

Mary Paquet

Jenny Tero.   The planetarium at the Rosicrucian. This was my second attempt using a view finder, the first one finished up with a dome that was way too big - the eye deceives

Sylvia Waddell

Palo Alto Baylands, January 5th

For our first paintsite of 2012 we painted at Palo Alto Baylands. It was sunny and very peaceful, apart from the occasional small plane buzzing overhead. A large Egret fished right in front of us and lots of other birds busied themselves in the water and reeds. After lunch the tide went out and presented a whole new view.

Caroline Garborino

Jane Saltman

Brad Santos

After enduring the near blizzard conditions at the Cupertino Paint-Out before Christmas and weeks of greyish Spare-the-Air days since, Sylvia, one of our Weather Goddesses (Jenny, of course, being the other), ordered up a clear, sunny, and unseasonably warm day for us to paint the popular Palo Alto Baylands.  Some of the salt marsh plants are an interesting shade of rusty-orange -- something of an unusual color in a landscape.  A bonus: a high tide and calm conditions made for distinct reflections in the sloughs.   And, yes, those are waterfowl flying over my landscape, not UFOs.  Brad Santos

Sylvia Waddell