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California Winter

California in Winter, 25" x 20" watercolor on paper

East of Fresno, California there are many, many orange orchards. What I found fascinating is that the farmers trim the trees flat on all sides. I’m sure there is a reason for that but it’s an interesting landscape to see cubes of trees as far as the eye can see. Well, almost as far.

What is stunning in Winter is the deep blue sky and the snow capped mountains.

The two together makes for a curious fantastic view of Winter in California as I have illustrated below.

California Winter
California Winter, watercolor 14″ x 10″, Arches 140 lb

I took this concept and made larger painting with a different look. Which one is your favorite?

Watercolor painting of converging orange orchard rows to focal point at base of snow capped mountains.
Watercolor painting of converging orange orchard rows to focal point at base of snow capped mountains.
Watercolor painting of snow capped mountains and a road through green orange orchards leading to the mountains in distance
20″ x 25″ watercolor on paper. Landscape piece illustrates the rows in orchards of oranges ready for shipping back east before Christmas over the snow capped Sierra Mountains in the background. Framed painting is strong on perspective drawing the viewer into the scene.