Point Arena scene

...first round pen and wash sketch from Point Arena location...

second round painting layers with gouache 

 

Plein Air painting time! Mendocino

 

Family painting time at Big River beach in Mendocino

Mendocino Baptist Church ... Corners of the Mouth

...William Kelly had this church built for his wife, Eliza Lee Owen, in 1894.  The Kelley family had already started a small church which became the Presbyterian church in 1868.  Eliza was Baptist and wanted a church of her own faith where she could play the organ,  “This is my Baptist Church in Mendocino, one my husband built with good faith.  Eventually the Baptist church was reopened as a gift shop called Personal Expressions.  Corners of the Mouth had opened in 1975 just down the street in the Kelliowen building.  In 1976 the businesses switched places and Corners has filled the church ever since.

Water tower and purple stalked Pride of Madeira plants

Meadow in Mendocino with water tower and church spire

Mini Mendo Ink Sketch

Mini sketch in Mendocino

Mendocino times and paintings

Mendocino times , painted view of Presbyterian Church, 1856 year of completion

Gensleron blog posting up for viewing

The sketches and paintings from the Mendocino expedition are also now on view within the gensleron blog pages, see link here...

http://www.gensleron.com/cities/2012/7/5/mills-mindsets-mendocino-and-memories.html

Mendocino Album

A selection of the painted views from the long weekend in Mendocino, top center create with procreate and sketchbook, bottom center done with procreate, the flanking images drawn with adobe ideas...

Street scene with windmill in Mendocino

...almost every house and building had a windmill, used to provide the power to pump water up into the redwood tank water towers for supply and pressure.  Some of the windmills are still standing relatively intact, sentinels and distinct markers in the town silhouette along with the water towers.  Another adobe ideas piece on the traveling ipad...

Mendocino Memorial weekend times...

A visit back to the town of Mendocino, with views from an upper deck out beyond the edge of the town and to the blue grey ocean beyond...

Russian Chapel at Fort Rossia, Fort Ross, Northern California

A selection of watercolor images of the chapel at the settlement established by the Russians on the northern coast of California...

freshly painted house and water tower in mendocino...

water tower structures in mendocino, california...

Cape Mendocino was discovered by a Spanish explorer in the year 1542 , 300 years later the first permanent non-Spanish settlers settled in the Big River area.

When the town of Mendocino was settled and developed, two and three storied water towers were built and tied to windmills for power to store and provide  sources of fresh water. They operated on a gravity system. Many of the old water towers remain, with a wonderful sense of strength and power on the landscape surrounded by the Pacific Ocean...