Plein air paintings Sept 2018

This month my husband and I, along with his best fishing friend Brian and his daughter,  took a week long camping pack trip to the Emigrant Basin, in Sonora County California. We hired a packer, who loaded all our gear on to mules, outfitted us with horses, and dropped our gear off as we rode 13+ miles into Buck Lake. 
The trail was steep and rocky, our bottoms were sore but the views and fishing were great. 
I took a small sketch book and watercolors as well as my oil paints. Here are the results.

The artist at work in the meadow capturing the far ridge, Black Hawk 

First oil of the week, Black Hawk Ridge, oil 8 x 10 

We called this tree, The Biggest Lodgepole We've Ever Seen

The majestic cliffs of granite that formed the valley around us.
8 x 10 oil

The cove where we camped at Upper Buck Lake and fished for 6 days.
8 x 10 oil 

Watercolor sketch at Lower Buck Lake.  The granite cliffs surrounded the valley where we camped. The rainbow trout were plentiful but the winds picked up and made fly fishing difficult.
 

A watercolor sketch of the area where we camped. I loved the 'random boulders' resting
the on rock ledges.

Emigrant Lake, featuring snags and brisk winds. This was a 6.8 mile roundtrip hike
from our campsite.

Watercolor sketch at Lower Buck Lake, done when the windy conditions made fishing impossible. 

A few more finished paintings done between 2015-2018

These are recent paintings that I was too lazy to post. I prefer painting to posting and sitting behind a screen, :-) 

All work is for sale.
Each painting is an original and one of a kind. I do not make giclee prints of my work. Many of these paintings have been featured in my annual desk calendar and a few have been printed as notecards. 

Please feel free to contact me for prices and sizes. 
I'd love to share my work with you and give it a new home.

Flies Only, Middle Owens River
Unfortunately in February 2018 this area burned all the way to Bishop.

Plein air oil of Poplar trees in Swall Meadows.
Another area damaged by fire after this was painted in 2016.

The western view of the Sierra reflected in a sheet of ice
on a cold day birdwatching in February 2017.
Watercolor and pastels

Mono Lake Reflections
12 x 24 unframed oil
first prize at Tri County Fair, 2016

Bristlecone Pine Patriarch
12 x 24 unframes size, oil 

Manzanar Monument
Plein air, watercolor 

Traditional Trio: Pinon, Sage and Rabbit brush
6x 8 plein air oil

Mammoth Mountain in Summer 

6 x 8 Plein air  oil

Owyhee River with Russian Olive trees
8x8 plein air oil air  oil

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine California
plein air watercolor 

Convict Lake in Spring
Plein air watercolor 

Bishop Creek, Full Fall Color
plein air watercolor & pastels 

Glass Mountain, winter of 2017
plein air watercolor 

Old Stone House, Benton Hot Springs
watercolor 

Mt Tom Reflections
plein air watercolor 

8x10 plein air oil
Sabot on Mickie's Pond 2017

A much belated update! Has it really been 4 years since my last post?

March & April 2017

We traveled to Portugal in Spring of 2017. The snow that year at home was 12 ft and the daily shoveling made us exhausted but buff. 
I kept a travel journal/ sketch book and here are a few examples of my quick onsite watercolors. We loved Portugal, with the fabulous castles, wine and roasted suckling pig, friendly people, great new auto routes and inexpensive prices. 

Ancient Wisteria vines on the walls  in the medieval city of Obidos

A surf and fishing beach, Penche

Fishing boats in the Algare region 

Lisbon trolley