"Carrizo Glory"

11x14" Oil on Canvas

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Donation - entire sales price will be donated to "Friends of Carrizo". The Mission of the Friends of the Carrizo Plain is to support the managing partners in the Education, Interpretation, and Conservation of the unique resources of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Carrizo Plain is a one of th Nation's newest National Monuments. The wildflowers in the spring are glorious, but it is also home to many endangered species. The scene in this painting is on the road over the Tremblor Mountains. You can actually see the San Andreas fault running through the West side of them. And - Antelope actually still play here. BID A LOTS! IT'S A GLORIOUS PLACE.
Thanks for your generosity.

"Montana de Oro, Spring" ©

Donation for ECOSLO

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5x7" Oil on Canvas

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Montana de Oro is a California State Park. It's name means 'mountain of gold', and was so named by the early Spanish explorers because in the springtime its hills (which roll down to the Pacific Ocean, are covered with wild mustard plants, as in this painting, and sometimes California Poppies. When I did this painting, I was waist deep in wild mustard. Beautiful!
Your purchase payment of this piece will be donated to the Environmental Center for San Luis Obispo. You can go to their website by clicking on their link to the left in the listing "Non-Profit Organizations I contribute to".

"Avila Ridge" ©

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5x7" oil on canvas board

Avila Ridge is between us and the ocean. My husband Ted Parrish took the beautiful
photograph from which I did this painting.

"Ladies First"...Judith Hale Gallery, Los Olivos

This past weekend was the Judith Hale Gallery's annual "Ladies First" event in Santa Inez Valley. Artists are spread throughout the gallery's sculpture garden demonstrating their medium, music plays and fine food and wine is served.
It's a wonderful time and the artists get to catch up with their collectors and friends. I was demonstrating palette knife painting.

Here's the layout of the demo showing the knives - two 1-1/4" knives and one 2" knife. I've laid in the sky and ocean with my knives, and brushed in the rock and shore area with a bristle #10 bright. My next step is to put in the details of rocks and shore water with the knives.
My next blog will show the basic palette layout of paints and the brushes I use.