11-2-14

This is another Photoshop painting with brushes, no photos. I wanted to show what I saw, driving back from Paso Robles to Sacramento again. The Central Valley is wide and open, with mountain ranges in the distance or hills nearby. It reminded me of the Eastern planes of Colorado, where I lived for six years. You could see the weather coming from miles away. You can see it here too, the sky dominating the field of vision. Today the sky was clearing. By the time we got to Sacramento, the clouds were mostly gone but cold and windy in spots. In Colorado the strip of land below the sky was dotted with low grasses and cactus. Here in the Valley, when there were no groves of fruit or nut trees, it was often dotted with tumbleweeds, turning a rusty color in the cold.