Some paintings just seem to flow from the palette and brush to the canvas, while others demand work over a period of months or even years. I watched The Flower Fields of Half Moon Bay Looking South mature and evolve over a period of six years starting way back in 2017.
The 'start' of this painting was inspired by the colorful flower fields on the south side of Highway 92 as I drove over the coastal mountains to my former studio in Belmont. Such a charming scene, lush with color and life after spring showers. Each year the flowers changed. Sometimes they were in carefully manicured rows and other years the flowers seemed to go wild and grow wherever they wanted, always offering up an abundance of colors and textures. At last, I've settled in on just the perfect array of colors set against the line of trees and distant mountains... and it only took 6 years to decide it was truly finished.
Some paintings just seem to flow from the palette and brush to the canvas, while others demand work over a period of months or even years. I watched The Flower Fields of Half Moon Bay Looking South mature and evolve over a period of six years starting way back in 2017.
The 'start' of this painting was inspired by the colorful flower fields on the south side of Highway 92 as I drove over the coastal mountains to my former studio in Belmont. Such a charming scene, lush with color and life after spring showers. Each year the flowers changed. Sometimes they were in carefully manicured rows and other years the flowers seemed to go wild and grow wherever they wanted, always offering up an abundance of colors and textures. At last, I've settled in on just the perfect array of colors set against the line of trees and distant mountains... and it only took 6 years to decide it was truly finished.