Field studies in High Sierra -2

First Snow in October, Rock Creek
9x12, o/c


Passing Rain Clouds, Twin Lakes, CA
9x12, o/c

While painting at Twin Lakes over Mammoth Lakes, we had an unexpected art critic sneaking up on us - a wild one...

a close encounter at twin lakes

Field studies in High Sierra -1

Those are some of the field studies I did on my first ever painting trip in eastern Sierra mountains.
In the last week of Sept., with two CA friends Bob Vogel and Jason Situ, I went up to Sierra Nevada mountains - Lone Pine, Bishop, Mammoth Lakes, finally Yosemite... to paint.
The fall scenery up there was absolutely breathtaking - definitely a painter's paradise.


Convict Lake Morning
6x8, o/c


Morning Shadows, Convict Lake, CA
9x12, o/c


Last Light on Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, CA
9x12, o/c

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