For more information about the ever popular Palo Alto Baylands paintsite, see:
http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/parks/preserves/baylands.asp
Upcoming Paintsites:
- Thursday, September 3, 2015: Linda Vista Park, Cupertino
- Thursday, September 10, 2015: Private residence on San Mateo County Beach - see website Members Only: Paintsites Details for more information. Currently "Wait List only".
- Thursday, September 17, 2015: Martial Cottle Park, San Jose. This is a new park and a new Paintsite. Looks promising.
- Saturday, September 19, 2015: Saratoga Farmers Market at West Valley College
- Thursday, September 24, 2015: Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor, Santa Cruz. Followed by post-paintout pot-luck at member's home. Reservations required for pot-luck - see September Newsletter and the Members Only section on the website.
- Friday, September 24, 2015: Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz. Followed by post-paintout pot-luck at Natural Bridges State Beach . Reservations required for pot-luck - see the SCVWS September Newsletter and website.
Note: unfortunately, many of the photos of paintings were taken in dappled sunlight / shade --- the actual paintings weren't at all splotchy!
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| Broncha and Cathy - anything missing here? How about some shade? "Don't worry", they say, "just paint-on!" |
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| Broncha's painting of the salt marsh, the South Bay, the Dumbarton Bridge and the PG&E power lines and associated cat-walk. |
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| Cathy's painting of the same scene. It's such a simple sea + landscape but there's so much there. Cathy has painted here before so knew exactly what she wanted to do. And she did it. |
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| Melanie focus was a bit south of Broncha's and Cathy's - same Bay, same salt-marsh, same PG&E lines, same cat-walk; but no bridge. |
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| Dan |
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| Dan's painting of the Duck Pond and the far-shore nesting area. |
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| Dan and Candy wrap up the morning with some duck & geese portraits. |
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| Candy's painting of the Duck Pond (or maybe it should be Goose Pond?). |
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| A Canada goose on the pond by Candy. |
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| Three Canada geese, getting closer and closer, by Candy. |
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| Elaine |
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| Elaine's painting of the Duck Pond looking towards the Palo Alto Airport. (Note: that sturdy chain - it's absolutely no deterrent to a determined Canada goose.) |
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| Helen |
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| Helen's painting of the Duck Pond looking toward the Eco Center where Karen, Sylvia, and Jenny organized a Watercolor Society exhibit last year. (Notice in this and other paintings that the geese are always coming toward the artist, never going away.) |
In search of the perfect Pickleweed for a "botanical" sketch, Leslie hiked waaay out onto a levee. Pity the poor blog photographer who had to track her down for this photo...
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| Leslie |
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| Leslie's painting across a salt marsh towards the "Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center". |
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| Leslie's painting of an egret. (Note: egrets are "nice" birds: they're beautiful, they keep their distance, and can hold a pose for minutes at a time.) |
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| Dick's painting of the Baylands Nature Interpretive Center. Leslie's painting was looking south (into the sun), Dick's east. It's a building with lots of angles and planes - very challenging to draw / paint. Dick captured it perfectly. |
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| Rich was visited by a fox on the prowl for a duck dinner - not sure who was more startled to see the other, Rich or the fox. |
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| Rich's painting of the Duck Pond. |
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| Lisha positioned herself back a ways from the Duck Pond to focus on the palms and eucalypti behind the pond. |
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| Lisha's painting of the back of the nesting area and the slough which wraps around behind the Duck Pond. |
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| Susan and Caroline - a little sketching and a little chatting. |
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| Caroline's painting of the Eco-Center. |
Not all the artists had their photos taken this time. But we did get to see their paintings during the critique....
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| Janice's painting of the marsh in front of the Eco Center (where the old Palo Alto Yacht Club used to be) towards the landfill. |
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| Brad's painting of the Baylands Ranger Station. |
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| Nora's painting of an enormous and most extraordinary eucalyptus in the Picnic Area. Even a few square feet of its massive bifurcated trunk could be the subject matter for an interesting and wild painting. |
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| Karen got warmed up with this trio of palm trees ... |
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| ... then hit her full stride with this painting of the Duck Pond. (Unfortunately, the photo was taken in the sun and the colors are muted - you should see it in all its glory!) |
Tom arrived early and did some serious scouting for his painting ...
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| Tom's value sketch #1 |
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| Tom's value sketch #2 |
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| Tom's value sketch #3 |
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| Tom's finished painting of the slough, salt marsh and Coast Range. |
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| Lunch in the Picnic Area next to the Ranger Station. (photo by Rich) |
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| ... still eating. |
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| Lunch over, it's back to work: critiquing our day's effort. |
