Portola Winery, Thursday, October 14, 2021

We had an amazing turnout at the Portola Winery! Susan BG, Masako, Annie, Claudia, Linda B, Jayne, Helen, Dick, Salinda, Lisha, Monique, Connie, Laurie, Sasha, Caroline, Alison, and Lora were treated to views of a beautiful vineyard and pond. Along with Bruno who kept close watch over his “herd”, we were serenaded by birdsong.

Upcoming Paint Sites

October 21- Spina Farms, San Jose

October 28 – Winchester Mystery House, San Jose

For additional information about these paint sites check out the SCVWS Newsletter or Website www.scvws.org

Artists and their Artwork

Painting of the vineyard by Laurie

Lisha Helen and Salinda

Bruno kept a close watch on us

Alison's painting of the vineyard

Portola Vineyards by Lora C. 

Portola Vineyards pond with a spectacular reflection

Masako ready to paint at Portola Vineyards

Portola Vineyards, Portola Valley

Alison in a shady spot, also working on perspective!

Old water tank at Portola Vineyards

Linda happily in the sun, painting vineyards and a barn

Jayne working on perspective with the vines at Portola Vineyards

Portola Vineyards pond

Annie's gouache painting of the house by the pond

Jayne's watercolor sketchbook entry of the sunlit vines

Linda B's watercolor of the Portola Vineyards 

Portola Vineyards, Portola Valley, Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Portola Vineyards are beautiful this time of the year with many of the leaves turned to yellow and orange, a lovely contrast to the dark green trees on the surrounding hillsides.  A huge thank you to the Lehmann family for allowing us to paint at their beautiful vineyards.  After all of the devastating fires in the North Bay wine country, it was wonderful to see these beautiful vineyards and to have cool weather to help the firefighters get those fires completely out. Most of us were attracted to the vineyards although a few artists ventured far enough to find the pond.  The sun only came out for a few brief moments in the morning, and then I immediately photographed my view so I knew where to paint the shadows.  

The last time we were here both border collie Bruno and rescue lab Simon helped us with our painting.  Check out the October 22, 2015 blog for proof.  This time they didn't get to visit us until we were finishing our picnic, and then Bruno was delighted to play "catch the stick" with anyone who would play with him.

Link to Portola Vineyards website

Portola Vineyards

Leslie's painting of grape leaves

Paintsite co-coordinator Jane S. painting 5x7 quick sketch of vineyards

Jane S's 5x7 quick sketch of vineyards

Jane S's finished painting of vineyards

Marilyn"s painting of vineyards

Elaine painting by the vineyards

Elaine's painting of grapes and grape vines

Susan J. painting by the vineyards

Mary R and Helen painting by the vineyards

Mary R's painting of the grape vines and hillside beyond

Helen's painting of grape vines

Helen's painting of vineyards and Elaine painting beside the vineyards

Lois

Lois's painting of the vineyards and the red barn

Broncha's painting of vineyards and hills beyond

Lorraine's painting of the pond

Suzie's painting of ducks on the pond

Suzie's painting of the pond

Susan B-G's painting of the pond

The artists enjoying the large comfortable picnic table

Portola Vineyards, Portola Valley, Thursday, July 25, 2019

We have visited beautiful Portola Vineyards in the fall, but this is the first time we visited in the summer when the green grapes were on the vine.  This was our last chance to see the ripening grapes because soon the vineyards will be netted to protect the grapes.  Thank you to our hosts, the Lehmann family, for allowing us to paint at these lovely vineyards.  Thank you to Liz for leading this paintsite while the co-coordinators were both out of town.  Thank you to Edward for helping Liz with photography.
 
It was a very warm day but we had lots of shade from all the big trees and lots of water available. From the interesting old reddish barn to the very green vineyards with green grapes to the old brown water tower to the beautiful blue pond to the dark evergreens to the golden grasses we had a very colorful environment to paint in.

For more information about Portola Vineyards visit https://portolavineyards.com/
For more photos from the paintsite, see Edward Rooks's Flickr album:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardrooks/sets/72157709888153246/

Upcoming Paintsites:  See the SCVWS website or the August Newsletter for details:

• Thursday, August 1, Saratoga History Park
• Thursday, August 8, Don Edwards Wildlife Preserve, Fremont
• Thursday, August 15, Guadalupe Oak Grove Park, San Jose
• Saturday, August 17, Guadalupe Oak Grove Park, San Jose
• Thursday, August 22, Senior Safari, Happy Hollow Zoo, San Jose
• Thursday, August 29, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga
• Thursday, Sept 5, Emerald Lake Country Club, Emerald Hills

Artists and their artwork:

Brad by the grapevines and roses

Brad's painting of the vineyard

The green grapes are on the vine.

Lauren and Caroline

Lauren's painting of the vineyards and roses

Caroline's painting of the vineyards and roses

Caroline's pencil sketch

Cindy

Cindy's sketches in her sketchbook

Helen

Helen's painting of the vineyards and roses

Sham and Indira

Indira's painting of the vineyards

Sham's painting of the swimming pool

We were very happy to have a new member, Kathy, paint with us.

Kathy's painting of the old wood staves and 

rusty steel cables on a water tank

Edward's painting of the pond

Elaine by the pond

Rich and Caroline by the pond

Rich's painting of the pond

Bruno, a busy border collie, kept us entertained while we painted with his need

to chase a stick, twig, ball, anything he could get anyone to throw for him.

Here we see Bruno with our host Len Lehmann and Elaine.

Our artwork on display

Thank you to Liz for leading the paintsite while

co-coordinators Jane and Marilyn are both out of town.

Liz is showing Helen's painting.

A posed photo of our artists