After participating in the Headwaters Trust plein air event, I headed to Santa Maria, a private trout club at the base of Bristol Mountain. Jim and my son Jason had already headed up earlier and so took off at about 3:00 and watched the sky stay completely brown with dust all the way there. It was rather depressing- like a huge fire was burning close by. I got settled in to the fishing trailer and the guys were nowhere to be seen- I thought "could they be fishing in this horrible wind?" Yes they were..Good thing because Jason woke up with the stomach flu at about 12:30 that night and plans kind of changed.. No more fishing for the guys and I stayed up on the mountain a little longer so that I could at least get one painting done. Since this area is above Creede- it wasn't even close to budding out anywhere so I had a difficult time finding anywhere that was very inspiring.
I finally settled on a group of Aspen in an area out of the wind- oh yeah - the wind was blowing by then..
I painted the above 8x10 and drove home and went through my bout with the stomach flu the next day..
2 comments:
wow. you painted with stomach flu?
I'm impressed. I like it.
Hi Mary-- No I didn't have the stomach flu quite yet-- I truly love to paint but i don't think
I'm quite tough enough to paint with the flu. Lol- I should not have told and left you impressed- right?
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