Pinnacles National Park Collagescape, 6”x6”, mixed media on board
The 2011 Project continues to inspire new work. Three years ago I was with friends down
at Pinnacles National Monument for a rainy Sunday afternoon hike. It was a gray, drizzly fall day, but
there was plenty of color, particularly from the variety of lichens. Early on in the 2011 Project, I did a lichen
piece based on that hike (see below).
The National Monument is now a National Park and I am still
painting lichens. This time
incorporating them into a piece for my new Collagescape Series –
this one is a fall palette.
Hopefully a wet winter will bring out a good spring bloom of wildflowers
and an excuse to take another trip south. Next time will be to capture a
different color palette at Pinnacles National Park.
