Evening's Approach - Small landscape Oil Painting

Evening's Approach - Oil on Canvas Panel - 6x8

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It's apparent that the days are getting shorter; my plein air paintings seem to have a theme of the last light it's physically possible to paint  in! I loved the seeming glow of the rabbit brush with the dusky desert purples I stumbled across while walking along the Columbia River at Columbia Point Park in Richland. Honestly, my favorite detail in this one is the distant radio towers crowning Badger Mountain. Often I leave them out, but I thought they added a little man made intrusion to remind the viewer that this lovely little park is really in the middle of a city.

Yakima River Blooms - Northwest Flower Painting

Yakima River Blooms - 6x6 - Oil on Gessoboard 

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So rabbitbrush may not quite be what most consider wildflowers, but around here we take what we can get in the middle of summer. Florals are way out of my comfort zone, but I'm very happy with how these turned out!