Well, I am back from a wonderful road trip to Bodega Bay and the small beach cabin worked well for our time there. I stayed at my buddy John's place and it affords wonderful views of the Dunes at Bodega Bay.
I plan to write and post more but I am including a short post for now. I will upload photos soon. So come back for some nice shots of Bodega Head as well as the Bay.
I had'nt Plein Air painted for awhile and I felt pretty rusty. So to make matters easy for myself I tackled a sunrise shot of a grove of trees across from Salmon Creek which runs in front of the cabin. I painted with a Simmon's Bright brush and I went for blocks of color. I used a modified Zorn Palette. From all we can tell , Alders Zorn added Cobalt Blue to his ensemble. I added that as well as adding a Cad Yellow to brighten the Yellow Ochre. The term Yellow Ochre can apply to a whole host of earth yellows and how rich Zorn's Ochre was .... we can only speculate.
In this semi disaster ... I used no Cad Yellow and just let the colors work the long hard tonal scale. I'm very much into tormenting myself.
......more soon
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I'll just bet it ain't easy being you.
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I'm happy to hear you had a fun get away!
Fun reading, and I don't see any semi-disasters! Do you mean that you had a hard time getting a light enough value because you didn't use Cad Yellow?
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