Saturday, November 23, 2013

You never know what you'll find...

Have been having fun with the Burlingame Plein Aire Painters. We get out to some picturesque local spot, each does his/her own thing. Then we share. Fun way to get inspired enough to paint in the home territory, instead of waiting for vacations years away. Today we were at Coyote Point Marina. I didn't find yet another boat scene to paint that worked for me, and I've already painted the bridge in the same light from that vantage. What I found instead was a shape I could relate to:

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Dodging the Rowers in Foster City

We had a good time of a nice Fall morning paddling in the Foster City canals. Only hitch was that the entire Bay Area crew regatta was scheduled for the same time! I don't particularly like being out on the water with the rowers, though I like watching them. On the waterways, they hog the space and don't see you nor give much of a damn that you're nearby. A couple of them nearly swamped me coming too close on one stretch, and I was hugging the shoreline to stay out of their way. Ah well. We had a good meetup anyway.