This painting was executed on site in Trabuco Canyon in California's Orange County. The canyon is named after a kind of firearm carried by Spanish soldiers back in the Mission era. A trabuco is a small hand cannon similar to a blunderbuss in appearance. Legend has it that some Spanish "sad-sack" lost his weapon in the canyon long ago, hence the canyons name.
This painting was featured in 100 Ways To Paint Landscapes, Volume 1 of the How Did You Paint That? series published by International Artist.
I had originally made a small sketch of the subject at 11x14 inches, and liked the subject enough to return and do it all over again in this larger scale. The sketch required one session of a couple of hours on site. The painting took five such sessions on site over a period of two weeks. That was after an initial in-studio session copying the sketch onto the larger canvas.
This painting was executed on site in Trabuco Canyon in California's Orange County. The canyon is named after a kind of firearm carried by Spanish soldiers back in the Mission era. A trabuco is a small hand cannon similar to a blunderbuss in appearance. Legend has it that some Spanish "sad-sack" lost his weapon in the canyon long ago, hence the canyons name.
This painting was featured in 100 Ways To Paint Landscapes, Volume 1 of the How Did You Paint That? series published by International Artist.
I had originally made a small sketch of the subject at 11x14 inches, and liked the subject enough to return and do it all over again in this larger scale. The sketch required one session of a couple of hours on site. The painting took five such sessions on site over a period of two weeks. That was after an initial in-studio session copying the sketch onto the larger canvas.