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.