Just another gorgeous winter day in LA. Marian Fortunati joined me to paint with my Thursday plein air group at Eaton Canyon. With so many wonderful places to paint, I could return to Eaton Canyon every day and never run out of inspiration.

      We got there a little later than I like, so I quickly set up and scrubbed in the background hills. The shrubs in the mid ground where a lovely combination of colors that I applied thickly with my palette knife. I let the background primer of burnt umber with yellow show as the sandy path and surrounding ground, adding a little contrast for texture. It was a bit of a challenge to vary the rocks that lined the path, in size, shape and color.

      We all met on site for lunch and did a little show of all the wonderful paintings that were created that morning.  I have only been painting with this group for about a year and have seen an improvement in everyone's work.

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