detail of mural prep study

 

Mud baths and mineral pools

Hope and Prayers for the North Bay California

The fires are still burning up north in Napa, Sonoma, Santa Rosa and we are all hoping and praying that the smoke and flames will end ...

slice/composite/views

slice/composite/views, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

a composition of four landscape slice views within a view framework, a mixutre of apps like artrage, procreate, adobe ideas on ipad with ps...

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Composite composition of slice paintings, a simple wood frame work allows for a synthesis of the sliced views...

a slice of the landscape north of napa...

another slice of landscape view, developed from the earlier test painting done with adobe ideas, this one based on the landscape view from the Silverado Trail north of Napa...

Completed the digital painting

of the landscape view in Napa/Silverado...

combination of artrage and procreate app on the iPad

 

Napa Valley in Autumn, a slice of the landscape on view

"autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile"  William Cullen Bryant

the leaves on the grape vines and the trees in the valley folds are so beautiful at the close of November...the painted slice of the landscape captures some of those colors and patterns...a digital view

and a closer detail view of the painted digital drips, strokes and touches...

Napa Silverado view flipped and finished...

Added in some shadow touches and texture to the foreground and wrapped up the brushwork, flipped the image to place the building on the right side and then noticed the similarity to the Kauai waterfall painting from several weeks ago...

Silverado Trail view painting progress

Progress on the next painting based on views of the vineyards and hills from the Silverado Trail in Napa valley, California...drawn/painted with a combination of procreate and artstudio on the iPad

Napa at Noon completed...

Napa at Noon was completed some time ago and finally surfaced on the tablet for a posting to the blog...

Napa at Noon

A progress view of a painting of  the hills and landscape on view from a weekend trip to the Napa Valley, looking along Silverado Trail...

Napa Mills building, Silos, towers, brick and history...

Always a pleasure to come across buildings and agglomerations of buildings and structures that have been restored and re-used with different degrees of care and respect...this complex associated with Hatt and then added and expanded during the time of need for grain storage and warehousing by the Napa river is home to the Celadon restaurant...