{"id":550,"date":"2010-02-09T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2018-12-16T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:44:37","slug":"clearing-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/clearing-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

I certainly have been remiss in posting to this weblog. I have had many painting trips all over California since my last post here. Many of you know I have a fan page on Facebook which you can find here<\/a>. It is much easier to post pictures and text on Facebook, but I have to remind myself to not be too lazy and take the effort to post here.<\/p>\n

The California landscape just begs to be painted after a winter storm as the skies are filled with lots of puffy cumulus clouds, have changed from gray to a brilliant blue, and of course the air is fresh! We have had a series of rainstorms the last few weeks, sometimes raining for days at a time. Another weather front went through last night, and it was clearing off today, so I drove up into the foothills behind my house and did a quick painting. I have painted this spot before overlooking San Jose, but after the recent rains, a small pond was more pronounced and the grass a most emerald green. The field in front of me had a herd of sheep, and the occasional bleeping and cowbells, or rather sheep-bells, just added to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

I set up right by the road and finished an 8×10 in a little over an hour. Below are a few shots from the trip.<\/p>\n

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And below is a quick snapshot of the painting.<\/p>\n

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I certainly have been remiss in posting to this weblog. I have had many painting trips all over California since my last post here. Many of you know I have a fan page on Facebook which you can find here. It is much easier to post pictures and text on Facebook, but I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-landscape","category-plein-air"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gXkU-8S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}