California Byway

California Byway – 7″ x 5″ – watercolor

A peaceful country road in the Ojai area, a little northwest of Los Angeles.
There are still agrarian areas, even in Southern California, where the landscape still looks much as it did a hundred years ago (as long as you don’t notice the late model SUVs zipping by.)

When we take road trips we seek out these out of the way places off the beaten path where the late afternoon sun reminds us that it really is a golden state.

Art advice from watercolorist Rex Brandt:
“I advocate the study of other artists’ ways and indeed, I am suspicious of the student or teacher who professes neither knowledge nor concern about the ways of the masters of his field.”