California impressionist wildflower painting by Karen Winters
May 29th, 2012
“Those Fields, Those Hills”
9 x 12 oil on hardboard plein air panel
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Springtime in Southern California brings the awakening of wildflowers to the hillsides. Some of the dried grasses of winter remain, but the cheery California sunflowers brighten the scene. This hillside was not strewn with wild mustard, as many are, but had a profusion of small beige and white flowers, plus helianthus californicus, the California sunflower.
The large tree is a pepper tree. The foliage of its soft branches seem to drift and sway in the wind, not unlike a weeping willow.
Just an amazing painting. Perfect composition, lighting and colors!