Some Sketching From My Back Yard

I was reorganizing my office this morning (It was badly overdue).   For those of you who don't know, my office has many many paintings taped to the walls.  The picture below is just one portion of one wall.













Well, while I was moving the pictures, I noticed that I had painted on the backs of many of them.  A way to save paper as I am learning to paint, no doubt.  One painting in particular, an old rusted truck (go figure) which is the one that got me started painting old rusted cars and trucks in the first place, had a few quick sketches on the back of it.  I remember doing them.  I did them in two settings.

   
The first setting, which, if I remember correctly, was done in about a half hour in my back yard. They came out ok, but not steller.  They were done when I started outlining the subject matter of the paintings.

The last one, if memory serves me right, was done the next day.  Living in Morro Bay, it's hard not to paint the Rock.  It is hard, however, to get a good painting of it.  It is kind of just a big hump out at the end of the beach with nothing else around it.  Well, this one was done with me sitting on my front porch.  Before you ask, yes, that is my view, and yes there are two different types of trees that frame the rock.  Well, without further ado, here it is.  Hope you enjoy.

I really feel like I learn a lot when I go back and look at these old paintings.  I can almost remember everything I was thinking while I was painting them.  I can also see how far I have come from these meager beginnings.  If I were to redo these, and I may, they would look radically different now (and with any luck, radically better). 

Next week, I am hoping to have at least 3 new painting.  No quick sketches like these.