“Monterey Bay from Esplanade Park”

This 9″x12″ oil study was painted plein air today at beautiful Esplanade Park in Pacific Grove, California. The weather was perfect today. My son, Skyler, painted with me and, even though we were tucked away in the trees of this park, the shore was so busy with people enjoying the sun that we had a few visitors, patrons and students. Beginning this week, I’m determined to get business out of the way and start training for Plein Air Easton.

About Robert Lewis

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Why I Paint n Copying the landscape or rendering precisely the arrangement of objects in a still life set before me, even though what is before me may move me with its beauty and, indeed, has moved me to paint it, is not what I am trying to do with my painting. For me, copying the world is best done with photography or super-realism. n After spending too many years trying to apprehend that beauty by rendering the […]