Big Bend Flora

and Rio Grande at Santa Elena Canyon

are two of the six plein air oils I painted on our first adventure together as a group called Rockport 9. We caravaned to Big Bend National Park which is about 10 hours west of Rockport and stayed in the Park at Chiso's Lodge.

The paintings were all 12x16" and took a couple of hours on location and several hours at home revising until they pleased me. Great to be mushing around in the texture of oils with a palette knife; my rendition of frosting a cake.