Plein air painting on a windy day with dust blowing around and keeping my easel from tipping over!
Work in progress…

My eyes and heart are full after seeing Ruth Asawa’s retrospective at SF MOMA today- she created inspirational work across diverse media, including sculpture, painting, printmaking, and paper arts. She survived internment camps during WW II, and persisted in making art her entire life.
Just wow 😮

Finished this one in the studio today- 14x11 inches, pastel

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Painting in progress 🌳 Rancho San Antonio, California.
As a bonus, I got to watch a mother Great Horned Owl sitting in her nest way up high!
Pastel 14x11inches

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California foothills with pastel, plein air, 9x12 inches

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Afternoon in the foothills- leaning into my reflex to splash around with color!

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Bookmarks with native California plants, specifically those of the redwood understory 🌲💚 carved and printed by hand for my monthly horticulture group

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A stunning day at the Palo Alto Baylands looking towards the Santa Cruz mountains. The only negative was that every few minutes a small plane would fly over my head coming in for a landing nearby by 😄

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While studying a rare plant in the redwoods, I took a break by drawing a gorgeous redwood with ink and soluble graphite 🥰

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Spent a restorative day in the redwoods studying a rare plant, Dudley’s Lousewort, Pedicularis dudleyi, in Portola Redwoods State Park

‘East Bay Hills’ Plein air from Alviso, CA, pastel, 11x14inches

‘Late morning at Live Oak, plein air at Joshua Tree National Park, pastel 11x14 inches

Another plein air painting with pastel in Joshua Tree National Park

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Plein air painting with pastel in Joshua Tree National Park

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‘Too Many Rocks’ block print from Joshua Tree National Park