This little piece was a study en plein aire while I was watching the impossible shadows on our Havasupai range . The mountain was purple, navy and red, very dark, but the ground had spots of incredible gold where the sun was making its way through the clouds and darkness as it was setting.
These are some studio paintings that I finished this week. With cleaning my studio and moving things from place to place I decided to finish these that have been sitting around undone. After a second or third look or a long period of not looking at the paintings, it is amazing what you see that you didn't the first time around. All needed some changes, tweaking or major overhauls.
I also have a few more of the plein air paintings from San Luis Obispo that I didn't post. Two of those paintings are posted below. All these paintings are posted on my website at www.beckyjoy.com.