Honey's Treasures: April 2017

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Pierce Road #30 - 30 Days of Painting

We drove to Pierce Road last week, before I got sick, and this is the second painting I did that day.

Painting #29 A

When we were camping at Jackson Rancheria, we drove around doing plein air painting. This house set against the vineyard was what caught my eye.

I know, I know, I haven't been posting a painting every day. I've been very sick all week. Some nasty bug I caught that has made my asthma flare up and every night I'm having trouble breathing. I'm missing my gym workout so much and am sick of the inactivity. I've been forcing myself to paint whenever I have the energy.

Tomorrow I'm going to be painting at a big event at Rush Ranch and on Sunday I'll be painting at another event at a winery in St. Helena. Both are events that are open to the public and they've invited plein air groups to participate. Should be fun, I'm looking forward to painting plein air this weekend as I've pretty much been cooped up in the house all week.

So, I guess I should redo my painting a day goal to A Painting a Day, As Long As I'm not sick. :-P

Here's a painting I did before I got sick.

All Aglow 5x7 original oil painting

Friday, April 28, 2017

Painting #27 - Pleasants Valley Farm

The frame below is handmade by Michael and hand painted by me. Mike has been very busy making a bunch of frames for the upcoming art gallery I'll be going in, in June. He's also making them for several of my paintings that will be at the Art on the Vine event in Fairfield on the same first weekend in June.

Pleasants Valley Farm 6x6

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

#26 Painting a Day

This one is also from the Pleasant Valley Iris Farm.

Anvil of Death

Monday, April 24, 2017

Painting a Day - #24 & #25

You saw this one from yesterday's post from painting at the iris farm. Here it is again, as painting a day #24 and below this is painting a day #25. I figured it's been awhile since I posted my daily paintings, (I've been busy working on orders) that I should try to get caught up here.

6x6 oil painting.

Here's painting #25.

6x12 oil painting.

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Plein Air Paint Out - Pleasant Valley Iris Farm

We had a very nice turn out today, nine painters showed up to paint.

Plein air #23

Here's my latest, it's an 8 x 10. When we were painting in Tiburon last month, I snapped a photo of this house by the roadside with Mt. Tam behind it for future reference and decided to do a quick little study of it.

Tiburon House 8x10 oil

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

#24 Landscape - Point Reyes Seashore

We were painting in and around Point Reyes and happened to come upon this beautiful scene off the road. There was nowhere to park to paint this plein air so my husband slowed the truck down for me to capture a reference photo.

Point Reyes Seashore, original oil 6x8

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Plein Air - Painting a Day #22

Fence in the Road

Monday, April 17, 2017

San Rafael Archangel Mission - #21 Painting a Day

San Rafael Archangel Mission

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Happy Easter and Daily Painting #20

Cloudy Day

I hope everyone has a lovely Easter today. This was painted at Big Break Regional Park in Antioch, the same day I did the clouds over the water with the windmills in the previous post.