Day 5: Acalanes Open Space

It was a sunny but very windy day. We set up our easels in the Acalanes Open Space near Beacon Ridge.

Samantha and Nancy with Mount Diablo.
Sam's painting in progress.
Sam's painting, another progress shot.


Sam's painting.


Nancy weighing down her easel with her backpack and holding her canvas in the wind gusts.
Nancy's painting in progress.

Nancy's painting at the end of the afternoon. "Ridge Top Vista", acrylic on linen 16" x 12", © Nancy Roberts.

This is Judith's painting: "A Windy Day", Watercolor, 12" x 16" © Judith Kunzlé
It was challenging to control the brush in the wind gusts, pushing and yanking from the back. There was no choice but to dance with the wind.
Location: 589 Monarch Ridge Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94597, USA

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