The real estate customers chose the panoramic shape.
Good thing they know I can paint. (Well, duh, that’s why they commissioned me.)
This is similar to my current favorite subject to draw and paint, but there are blueberries and avocados rather than orange trees. There is also a distinct lack of snow-covered mountains and no poppies on the distant hills, but still, it is similar.
Wait, “current” favorite subject? The painting above was completed in 2022. Here’s the first one I did in 2008.
Before oil painting, I drew similar scenes in colored pencil in a year I did not record, before I had a scanner, and when I had a web designer who added watermarks.
And before that, I drew similar scenes in pencil.
Enough remembering and bloviating. Get back to work, Central California Artist!
Reminder
I help people write books and get them printed. The books that I have shepherded from idea to publication but that I don’t sell can be found on this new page: OTHER PEOPLE’S BOOKS. This includes Tales of TB, Springville’s Hospital, The Crooked Cross of Diamond Lake, Only the Living, and Adventures in Boy Scouting.
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I love all your work, whether it’s in pencil or paint. Beautiful!
Michelle, it’s a treat to have you as a fellow citizen of Realville. 😎
What a long way you’ve come, Jana. It’s fascinating watching your commission works (and drawings and paintings in all sizes and murals) bloom on your blog. Thanks so much for taking the time to share so much of what you’ve seen and what you’ve accomplished in the most beautiful parts of Tulare County (and in many other spots on the map). Always enjoy your posts, but rarely take time to tell you so! — Lauirie
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for reading my blog, Laurie. It encourages me to continue when I hear that someone is reading and enjoying all my ongoing bloviations!
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