Office Building

Painting No. 124 Office Building
Stewart Indian School
Carson City, Nevada
8"x 8" oil on linen panel
8-5-11

Painting number 4 in a series of 10 plein air paintings of the Stewart Indian School. This building built in the 1920's was most recently used as a sheriff sub-station.

Sierra Afternnon, with Hawkins Peak

Painting No. 111, Sierra Afternoon, with Hawkins Peak
Alpine County, California
8"x 6", oil on linen panel
6-25-2011

Last weekend my wife and I stayed in a campground outside of Markleeville, California. This was the same campground where my grandparents brought my brother and I each summer and we would stay for up to a month back in the early 1980's. The terrain is a small bowl shaped valley, surrounded by low hills on all sides.

These pine trees with the slight hint of the south slope of Hawkins Peak was the best composition I could find. I painted in the early afternoon, concentrating on adding additional detail of the tree's branches and varying the shades of shadows within the fading forest.