Daily oil landscape sky, Moon Rising

"Rising Moon" 6"x6" oil on canvas panel.

I just got back a couple of days ago from California. First I participated in the San Luis Obispo Plein Air. I was really pleased with the painting that I did in the area. It is a favorite place of mine to paint (photos to come) and I have made some great friends in the area that I see every year. At the end of the trip I heard from my friend Deb Groesser who was in Laguna. She invited me down to stay and paint with her for a couple of days. It didn't take much convincing to get me down there. So as soon as the show closed in SLO, I was off to Laguna.

We first went toured around to see some artist friends participating in the Laguna Plein Air Festival, then she showed me her favorite places to paint. We painted in the afternoon, which I found very frustrating. I started chasing the light as it started with sunny weather then turned to fog. My painting was all over the place. I gave up and wiped it off.

The next morning we went down to Crystal Cove. I painted a foggy painting, then a sunny one. I'll put them on the website tomorrow. I really had a good time painting the light with the fog this time.

I then came home about 3 days later than planned. So I have been playing catch up this week and rest time too. As I drove across the desert a few days ago, the moon was rising. Since I was driving with no where to pull over and paint, I was trying to make mental notes about the colors and values of the sky, moon, light on the mountains and tops of some plants. This painting is about my impressions as the moon was rising in the desert.

I still have openings in my workshops, both online and ones in the Phoenix area.

Talk to you all later.

Becky Joy

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Antique jeep in the field oil painting by Becky Joy

Jeepers 6x6 oil on canvas panel

I saw this old jeep around Taos (a great place for old vehicles). It was on someone's property and not a very good view from the road. No one was home, so I did a little trespassing to get a photo of it. I'm not sure what the original color was, because it seemed like it was multicolored with just that little bit of red on the fender. I love painting the old patinas on the vehicles that have weathered. Fun stuff to paint. No shiny cars for me.

Getting ready for my trip to Oregon and plein air painting on the gorge. Really a great place, can't wait. Time to start setting things aside for my trip now. Talk to you all later.

Becky

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Utah Zion plein air oil painting by Becky Joy

I just got back from my trip to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho for the Oil Painters of America show, then on to Whitefish, MT for some visiting, hiking and a little painting. The last leg of the trip I went to Mt. Carmel, UT where I met my friend, Deb Groesser, to paint in the Zion, Mt. Carmel, and Escalante area for three days. We stayed at an artists retreat in Mt. Carmel, which was Maynard Dixon's home. It was a wonderful place including the grounds.

The first painting was from the town of Springville, Utah at a park late in the afternoon. The only light left was hitting the tops of the hills, lighting up the rocks and trees, some of my favorite lighting to paint. It's a rush, literally. The painting measures 6x8 and is for sale on my website

This second painting measures 8x10 and is for sale on my website   I painted this painting from the Maynard Dixon property in the morning looking across the road at Mt. Carmel. The warm colors of the sunlit rocks brings that part of the painting to your center of interest. I echoed the color in the house and some in the foreground trees. The mountains have so much color it is hard to stay on task and keep the shapes simple and not break it up with too much stuff going on.

I have more photos that I will be posting, but I also have some photoshopping to do and a few touch ups on some of the paintings. So, I'll talk to you all later.

Becky Joy
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