Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, Thursday, January 20, 2022

Paintsites' artists who arrived early were welcomed to a landscape enveloped in light fog, but if you stayed until late morning you were rewarded by sunny skies and lingering mist. Paintsites members Annie, Brad, Dick, Salinda, Caroline, Brad, Karen, Candy, Lisha, Karen, Lora, Claudia, Lynn, Linda, Tanvi, Masako, Jane, Charlene, Helen, Susan B-G, Sal, Laurie disappeared into the fog and took on the challenge!

Upcoming Events

JAN 27 – THURSDAY PAINT SITE: Casa Grande, San Jose

JAN 30 - WEEKEND PAINT SITE: Rosicrucian Museum Park

FEB 2 to FEB 27 - Paintsites’s member Annie Haines exhibit at Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State Street Los Altos, CA 94022 

FEB 3 - THURSDAY PAINT SITE: Rain make-up date

FEB 10 - THURSDAY PAINT SITE: Ainsley House, Campbell

FEB 17 - THURSDAY PAINT SITE: Rain make-up date

FEB 24 - THURSDAY PAINT SITE: Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, San Jose

FEB 26 - WEEKEND PAINT SITE: McClellan Ranch Preserve, Cupertino

For additional information about the January events, go to the SCVWS Newsletter or Website www.scvws.org

Photos of Artists and their Artwork

Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve painted by new member Sal

View of the boardwalk at he Lucie Stern Interpretive Center
(photo by Sal)

Brad's watercolor of artists painting the foggy landscape

Challenging day at the Baylands painting in the fog. 

If it wasn't for Karen's orange sleeves and Tanvi's blue 

Mini it would have been exclusively a study in greys.

Candy's value sketch of Lynn painting
by the Baylands

Candy's painting of a Lynn painting at the
Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

"Three Palms" by Dick

Waterfowl on the misty slough, painted by Karen

Lora's watercolor of waterfowl at low tide.

"It was a surprise to find such a misty day, but it was wonderful.  

I found myself drawn to the birds and their shadows" ~ Lora

"Duck Pond" by Salinda

Ducks on the slough, Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

"Palo Alto Baylands Fog" by Susan B-G

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"Lucy Stern Nature Center" by Laurie

“What a morning!  That sky must have changed a dozen times 

while I was there painting.  Foggy, fuzzy, cloudy, a little blue sky, 

back to foggy, then sunny and bright blue sky, and repeat…  

I had to just stay with the image of the first sky I saw to paint it.” 

~ Laurie

"The Ranger Station" by Jane S

"The Road Less Travelled" by Caroline

Artists gather to view morning's work