I did one more painting last June, but didn't get around to showing it on this blog until now. One afternoon, I went out for a little hike in Garin Park here in Hayward, and I followed Dry Creek for a couple of miles. There was one spot where the shadows and reflections caught my eye, and I took a photo with my iphone. It was a complicated scene for a watercolor, but why not give it a try? I added the fish, but it wasn't exactly cheating because I did see some little fish in another part of the creek. I was afraid that it was too mixed up for anyone to get what it was supposed to be. Today was the start of the fall session of my watercolor class, and I showed it to my fellow students, and a lot of them liked it, so maybe it's not so bad.
As I said, today was the start of a new season of my watercolor class, and I needed an idea of something to paint. I chose a photo I took a few weeks ago when we were spending a few days at Mammoth Lakes. When we are there, we always go out to Hot Creek for a walk because it is such a special place. This time we chose to take a trail into the canyon a bit upstream from the hot springs, and as we started down, I shot a photo of this juniper. I think it was the clouds that really caught my eye, and I think I did them pretty well. A few minutes later as we were walking along the creek, the clouds grew more threatening, and we decided that we needed to get out of there. We found a rough trail out of the canyon, and made it back to our car with dark clouds and thunder. A minute or two later, on our way back to highway 395 when it sounded like rocks hitting our windshield. The hail was so heavy that the traffic on the freeway was either pulled over or going about 10 mph. After about 10 minutes, we drove out of it, and made it back to our cabin.
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