View from Mt. Tamalpais

oil on canvas panel 11" by 14" plein air. This is Bolinas Lagoon just North of Stinson Beach as seen from Bolinas Ridge up on Mt. Tamalpaias at about 2000 feet elevation. Nice afternoon with no significant wind and dlearing of all the morning's fog on the Bay. Visibility was about 50 miles. That's tonight's fog bank out on the ocean waiting for night to come visiting. Laura Xu and I were out painting with our Saturday plein air group.

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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 24, 2014 at 17:05: Thanks Ana and Cristina.

Comment by Ana Murza on October 24, 2014 at 12:36: I like the glowing light in the foreground grass, it seems like is lifting up and give life to the painting.

Comment by Cristina Mihailescu on October 24, 2014 at 5:51: Love the perspective!! Beautiful!!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 23, 2014 at 15:56: Thanks Olivia. Putting more color in the foreground with some golds and greens was my plan. I also have some fixes to the very straight line of treetops on the right planned. I will repost after the fixes. Stu

Comment by Olivia O'Carra on October 23, 2014 at 8:44: I love the colours and treatment of the foreground and sea against the dramatic greens.

The additionof some linking greens in the foreground will make a great job of it.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 22, 2014 at 14:14: The air was pretty clear Ian. I did not put enough color in the foreground and my tree lines are a bit too straight. Painting is still a little too racy to fix but these fixes are relatively easy. Very hard to catch all this stuff in the 2 to 3 hours out in the bright sun. Thanks for the compliments. Stu

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 21, 2014 at 6:39: Thanks Jon; great suggestion. I am going to do some fixes that Michael suggested and will work on tieing the trees into the foreground, probably by restating the darks along the path I have mad down into the trees and bring a few of them forward. It's hard to see all these things when you are out there and "into" the painting.

Comment by Jon Main on October 21, 2014 at 5:36: I very much (really) like the concept of a downhill view, Stu!! what's the foreground color - could you 'tie' the foreground to the trees a bit so that they are not quite so separate?