Unexpected Sizzling Heat

Are you expecting?

when addressed to a woman,

simply means....if one is expecting a baby,

a polite way of saying 

"pregnant".

but in the case of

yesterday's weather,

 the 10th of June, 

the mercury was pregnant

with sizzling heat.

... heat wave drowsed the western side of 

the country....

i usually wake up around 10:30a.m.

when my alarm clock goes off....

but yesterday I woke up to the
rather high temperature

around 8:30 

the air outside was warm
and a little humid...

i had to move my plan to plein air at 4pm to 

6pm and even at this time the temp is in the

high 70s...

 even with the cool

sea breeze i could still feel a bit of heat...

which somehow explains the swarming of

beach goers.

Tuesday, the 11th,

the mercury reports are still high...

120 in the shade in Death Valley,

95 in Portland/Vancouver area...

there is relief on a

forecast of cooler weather for 

Wednesday...

so I might continue my plein air

session tomorrow.

in the meantime, i'll be working on the

revision of the skyline of the

"gathering of clouds"

catch you folks later!

jt

  

Back in the saddle again

Had a chance to plein air last Monday

it was warm when I started out, managed to cover

a bit of the shapes, forms  and tonal values

when finally the fog started to roll in and the 

cold breeze followed.

Had to go to Stonestown, anyway, so I 

hightailed it...

as they say

"he who runs away

lives to paint another day"...

in keeping with my goals to

keep myself busy after

a lull....

i worked on fine tuning 

"the Londoner",

a painting based on the 

1965 b/w photo of 

Jane Birkin, the actress in
"Blow Up" and Agatha Christie's
"Evil under the Sun"

as well as managed to put in 

a few hours on the Twiggy painting,

all in a day's work...

I'll catch you folks later.

jt