Diary of a Residency, Day 38, March 25, 2009

We went back out to Death Valley, to Zabriski Point, today. Jer hiked down to Gower  Gulch and I painted one of the 18 x 24″ boards. The sun was hot, the wind was blowing, but the board stayed put and the painting was well along by the time he returned.

The photo was taken in the Red Barn, where I had Jer drop me off on the way back to Beatty. There I had a couple of good solitary hours to work on this painting and the two I did yesterday. All three are just about finished, although I only remembered to photograph this one. I’m quite pleased with the way it came out. At 5:30 pm, the painting looked like this:

Zabriski Point, Death Valley, 18 x 24″, Oil on board.

Friends of ours are flying in from Lake Havasu (literally flying in a light plane) any minute now, so this is reported from the Goldwell House, Beatty, Nevada, in haste, and contentedly.

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