ITS ALL ABOUT ART

Almost daily painter, traveler and art lover
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Long Road Trip: Week 1 part B


Day 3 and 4: Drive to Castle Rock State Park in Idaho. Google maps gave me an alternate route, only an extra 10 minutes about an hour away from our camp spot. Sometimes Google lies. What google didn't tell us; it was a washboard dirt road for 27+ miles so we rattled a few screws loose in the camper. Literally.

Beavertail Cactus were in bloom in the park
Acrylic 12x12

I have many sketches of barns adding up because I feel the need to draw
every single barn we drive by. Barn obsessed.

Cleaned my pastels and right before we left realized I left the lids in Denver. Not something you can just run out and pick up - foam padded lids to my plein air box. So, I've got the pastels in other boxes but still needed to bring this to attach to my easel and tripod. Not efficient.

This old barn behind Tracy's General Store in Almo, ID

Then we were off to Boise, ID. Our highlight was seeing Shoshone falls near Twin Falls. Every single thing we drive by has a unique beauty to it, it's so fun seeing new things and going to places we've never been before. Very grateful.

Shoshone Falls, ID


Day 6: Drove through Bend, OR and would love to come back and spend more time here. A pretty park in downtown, a real art gallery, cute downtown area with shops, etc. After a brewery and dinner stop, headed south to be as close to Crater Lake as possible. I have 20 or so paintings in my head just hoping for time to get them on paper one day.

Day 7: Spent the day at Crater Lake National Park. Ed did a 33 mile ride around the rim and I got to paint. We did a short 1.6 mile hike up to Watchman Lookout for even more incredible photos.
Like most spots, it was empty and beautiful at 8 am but by noon packed with tourists, kids, buses and way too many people.

Paint spot along Crater Lake rim near the Lodge

Then I sketched the Lodge

Crater Lake National Park
Pastel 9x12

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