recent painting excursions

Little Excursions Close To Home

Since I'm trying to blog every other day,

I thought I would share some images

from Corrales, the vineyards, 

and a lovely private garden near the mountains.

This is an old house in Corrales.

It's kind of slowly falling over.

I always wonder about who lived there, what their life 

was like, etc.

I've never painted it, but I will one of these days.

My palette knife painting from the vineyards.

Lots of texture on this one.

This is a view of the vineyards gardens overlooking 

the Sandia mountains

Rose garden at Casa Perea in Corrales

More rose garden. Love that archway!

Yellow and orange roses

An orange beauty

 The rose garden 

 Roses with archway

 

Water droplets on rose

 Old church in Old Town. I went looking for hollyhocks.

  Found some!

I also found a guitarist!

Beauties!

 

More!

These will make a lovely painting!

Mexican Hat

Lilacs and flower pot

Beautiful wood carving at the vineyards

Grapevines are flourishing

So this morning I headed up towards the mountains. 

There was a layer of cloud cover.

We painted at this beautiful private garden.

The mountains were just beyond.

My two finished paintings today:

And my scenery on the way back home:

 A lovely and tiring day!

Tomorrow, I am starting a large panting,

so stay tuned...

 

a little plein air

Good morning!

Yesterday I met my friend Barb Clark at a 

beautiful local vineyard.

It was so quiet, no one was there, the birds were chirping,

the breeze was swaying...

I hadn't painted on location since before all

of my tooth issues, so it felt so good just to be outside!

We painted from 9am to about 11am,

then it really started to get hot.

I packed up, came home, ate lunch, and crashed out.

I felt so weak from just that little excursion.

I came away with these two paintings,

which I'm kind of proud of.

The top one is a palette knife piece and the bottom is

just the view of the mountains and flowers all around me.

Today I am working on varnishing and framing some

paintings to take to the gallery.

And I'm making cookies!

And I might go for a soak in the spa.

And I have to take a shower.

Most definitely that!

So I hope you enjoy these two paintings.

Where will my next destination be?