June 2025

 

On one of our days in Big Sur, we hiked around at Point Lobos State Park. As on previous visits, we had to park out on the highway, but once we were on the trails, it was beautiful as always. I was taking lots of photos of the scenery but then we came across this painter and I thought it made a nice complement to the landscape. I felt like expressing my appreciation of her painting, but I didn't want to disturb her concentration. I know how annoying an interruption can be when you are really focused on your work.

I looked through some old photos for a painting idea and came across one of a gull on the beach at Patrick's Point State Park. The photo didn't have much color so I tried to add a little more, maybe not very successfully. There is still something that I like about it, though.

I felt like painting something with buildings, and I found a photo from our three days in Paris in 2000. We were wandering around from our hotel and I looked for an ordinary street scene. I had lots of photos to choose from but this one caught my eye somehow.