After painting the snowy sequoia scene, 24×48″, these current 18×36″ pieces shouldn’t feel large to me.
Alas, they do.
I often tell my drawing students, “You can be fast or you can be good – you get to decide”. Then I say that in pencil, I get to be both fast and good. (If it is true, it isn’t bragging.)
In oil painting, it is necessary for me to be slow in order to be good, at least the way I define good (and my customers too, or they wouldn’t be customers).
These two oil paintings on the easels are going v e r y s l o w l y.
I am jumping all over the canvas (not literally, don’t worry), chasing around different sections, based on the colors I mix and what catches my interest. Eventually it will all get covered. 
The only difference between these two photos of the sunny sequoias is that I cleaned yellow off my brush on the second one. It was left from finishing the edges on the cowboy painting. The entire canvas needs to be covered multiple times, and wasting oil paint hurts my frugal heart, so now there is a strangely colored first layer near the bottom.
Your Central California artist continues to make art you understand, of places and things you love, at prices that won’t scare you.
(But sometimes her early color choices might.)
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