Spring Bloom Point Lobos

                                            Spring Bloom, Point Lobos          40 x 48 inches

Here is a recent painting of the poppies that have been blooming at point lobos over the last couple of months. I spent a number of days painting field studies out there, and this is the large studio work that came from those studies.

at this point in the painting i decided the foreground needed

to be reorganized, eliminating the bushes in the 

extreme foreground so the viewers eye entered the painting 

from the right side of the canvas

more editing and adjusting shapes and values and 

temperatures of the grass and poppies

 the finished painting is at the top

                              thanks to my good friend Brent Bear for taking these pics at point lobos