Wednesday, July 19, 2006

SOLEDAD LAGOON


This is a plein-air painting of "Soledad Lagoon", oil on canvas, 9x12 inches. I painted it on location, just off Carmel Valley Road by Torrey Pines. It was a nice cool evening and I was accompanied by my friend Aron Wiesenfeld... http://aronwiesenfeld.com/

The area has nice little trails and a parking lot for beach access. Earlier, when I was scouting around and looking for a place to paint, a park ranger approached me. I guess he had nothing better to do, so he started harassing me. Told me the area was off limits and it was a wildlife rehabilitation area (total BS, there was only a no parking sign). So when he gave me a ticket, I didn't have much to say. Later, when I went to court to fight the ticket, the judge threw out the case. Fortunately, as it turns out, the judge's mother was a painter too :-)

2 comments:

Mark said...

This stuff's great man! I love that 50's America Feel :)

Thanks for checking out my blog, hope to see you again sometime :)

M

william wray said...

I love that story, artists need a free pass everywhere.
I hate bastards like that who are about their little egos.