Before and After, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8

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In case these before and after posts are putting you to sleep, let’s skip the chit-chat and go right to the paintings.

Garapatta BEFORE
Garapatta, AFTER
Point Lobos, BEFORE
Point Lobos, AFTER
Carmel Mission, BEFORE
Carmel Mission, AFTER
Rocky Point, BEFORE (those aren’t birds – it is squished bug)
Rocky Point, AFTER
Pinos Point Lighthouse, BEFORE
Pinos Point Lighthouse, AFTER. This is my favorite, and I’m not alone in my assessment because it sold.

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The show hangs until December 29 at CACHE in Exeter. Their hours are Friday 1:30-4, Saturday 10-4, Sunday noon-4. It includes about 50 paintings, 3 original pencil drawings, calendars, cards, coloring books, The Cabins of Wilsonia books, and a few pencil reproduction prints.

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7 Comments

  1. Enjoyed the before and after.

    • Thank you, Kathy! I appreciate hearing that because I wondered if I was boring my readers to sleep.

  2. I agree with Sharon, the “After” paintings are much lighter and brighter and sharper. But I like the “Before” on Rocky Point with the darker rocks. They look more dramatic against the sky and sea. Do you advertise these as plein air since you have touched them up?

    • Marjie, at the painting retreat in Monterey we received a copy of Plein Air magazine, because the event was sponsored by the publisher. I read it after I got home and was both surprised and pleased to see that almost every painting in the magazine was described as “plein air/studio”. This told me that almost every painter touches up their paintings later!

      I don’t advertise my plein air paintings anywhere other than telling my blog readers about them. I just haven’t figured it out yet. Because they are on panels rather than stretched canvas, they will require framing. Since I don’t know if they are worthy of selling, I don’t want to put money into framing them. And because they are mostly ocean scenes, I haven’t decided if they look right with my mountain scenes in a show.

      Thank you for your valuable opinion on “Rocky Point”. I might darken the rocks in the foreground. The distant ones need to be lighter as they recede in order to look farther away.

  3. Ha Ha . . . errrrrr, no, thank you!

  4. All of the “After” paintings are, of course, major improvements.

    But I have one complaint. You should have left the bug in the painting. It’s a “conversation piece” and the only chance that poor bug has at immortality in death–to be admired by one and all forever as part of a beautiful piece of art.

    • Sharon, if you would like to buy the painting, I’ll find another bug to stick on it for you!

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