{"id":4847,"date":"2018-08-02T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2018-08-02T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:55:51","slug":"176-above-davenport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/176-above-davenport\/","title":{"rendered":"176&#8242; Above Davenport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4859\" style=\"width: 1296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4859\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/176-above-davenport\/neffabovedavenportw-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?fit=1296%2C858\" data-orig-size=\"1296,858\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"176&amp;#8242; Above Davenport, 24&amp;#215;36, oil on canvas\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;176&amp;#8242; Above Davenport, 24&amp;#215;36, oil on canvas&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;176&amp;#8242; Above Davenport, 24&amp;#215;36, oil on canvas&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?fit=300%2C199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C678\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?resize=1296%2C858\" alt=\"176&#039; Above Davenport, 24x36, oil on canvas\" width=\"1296\" height=\"858\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?w=1296 1296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?resize=768%2C508 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C678 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neffabovedavenportw-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C794 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">176&#8242; Above Davenport, 24&#215;36, oil on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>As the summer morning fog clears along the California coast, many times the crashing waves, spray, wind, and lingering fog create an ethereal atmosphere of a misty soft landscape, or should I say seascape.  I live within an hours drive of the coast, and visit often to paint, camp, and ride my Harley.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently painting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.californiaartclub.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Art Club<\/a> along the coast near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davenport,_California\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davenport CA<\/a> and produced a short video, you can see here&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewHRjzLgk6o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/more-painting-n-dronin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also a weblog entry you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you know I purchased a drone earlier this year.  I bought it mainly for fun and to give a different perspective to my painting, motorcycle, and other adventures.  Although my main intent was not to do paintings from a drone&#8217;s perspective, I did do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/announcing-the-worlds-first\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plein air drone selfie you can read about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing the drone footage around Davenport, however, I couldn&#8217;t resist painting a scene far above the coast.  The video frame I painted from is at about 0:47 on the above video.  I wanted to create an atmosphere of morning mist still lingering around the coast and the sun starting to highlight parts of the coastal bluffs.  I did sharpen and saturate the colors a bit from the video, and highlighted parts of the cliff more.  Here is the frame I extracted and enhanced in Photoshop as my study:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4857\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4857\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/176-above-davenport\/2018cacdavenportw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?fit=864%2C486\" data-orig-size=\"864,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Above Davenport study photo\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Above Davenport study photo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Above Davenport study photo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?fit=300%2C169\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?fit=864%2C486\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"Above Davenport study photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018CACDavenportw.jpg?w=864 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above Davenport study photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you can see, I painted it pretty much &#8216;as-is&#8217;.  In the distance is the coastal hamlet of Davenport, about ten miles north of Santa Cruz.  The drone was 176 feet above the bluff, so probably 250 feet above the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll look at my drone videos again, and maybe produce a drone painting series?!?  Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the summer morning fog clears along the California coast, many times the crashing waves, spray, wind, and lingering fog create an ethereal atmosphere of a misty soft landscape, or should I say seascape. I live within an hours drive of the coast, and visit often to paint, camp, and ride my Harley. 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