#311 Near Chelmsford Court #311 Wood Print

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I was walking on the Pleasant Grove Creek Trail (South Branch) in the Quail Glen area of Roseville and thought this scene would make an interesting painting. The trail meanders through the suburbs along a feeder creek which leads to the south branch of Antelope Creek north of Blue Oaks Blvd. It was the tail end of winter and the oak trees don't have new leaves yet. The water in the shallow pond is gone in the summer along with the green grass..

For this painting I wanted to try a different looser approach, more impressionistic than photo realistic. This is more or less an experiment. The watercolor painting is 15" X 22" (half sheet) done on Arches, rough, 300 lb watercolor paper.

My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...