Showing posts with label valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valley. Show all posts

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Church of St. Theresa, Bodega, California

Hitchcock used the church as a prime setting for a movie, Ansel Adams viewed and framed it in some photos, and I painted and drew it on the weekend.  The schoolhouse is up beyond to the right on the hilltop. this was a rougher sketch approach to capturing the feelings of today and yesterday...

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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...

SS UNITED STATES detail view