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On a cloudy afternoon in early March, our plein air group decided to drive up Highway 193 (Lincoln-Newcastle Highway) in the Newcastle area in California to pick a spot along the road to paint from. Jim Brunk leads the group and he stops near an orchard area. As we are walking along shoulder of the road trying to figure out something to paint, it starts to drizzle. Many of the painters get in their cars and either paint from the open hatchback or from inside looking out a window. I took a bunch of photos instead because rain and outdoor watercolor painting without an umbrella is not a good combination.

When I got home, I saw that the reference photos were not great. I modified reality by thinning out some vegetation, moving some rocks, and came up with something a bit more colorful. I had to look on the map to figure out where the hill was, which turns out to be part of Twin Peaks Orchard.

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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...