Off The Hook Monday!
What a great day. We loaded up the truck with our outdoor painting gear and headed off to a spot we'd chosen earlier. We walked around a bit in the area first and we both found a bunch of bones! We both found a skull, me a very large dog skull, Leonardo a coyote. The dog skull is 3 times the size of the coyote’s. I also found the pelvis, vertebrae and most of the ribs of the dog. I found a few larger bones too, probably bovine, and so old they were beginning to flake away. An auspicious beginning.
We set up our french easels on top of a little ridge and pulled out some small art-store canvases. We each painted the same scene but since we paint so differently you'd
never know it was the same place. Once we pick the seeds and weeds out (the wind was strong!) I’ll take a photo & post. The wind was so strong it blew my canvas upside down onto the desert floor even though I had the little easel pegs up holding the bottom edge. So next time we’ll bring something to really anchor the canvases down to the easels with.
It was completely awesome sitting outside all day and messing about with paint. We’ve picked out next week’s spot already. It’s on a back road we took several weeks ago & stopped to take photos, between Dixon & Ojo Sarco. First we’ll drive up toward Picuras Pueblo & try out a little café we found there on a recent jaunt, then go back down to Ojo & take the dirt road back into the hills. We’ll get an earlier start than we did today (I forgot to lock the house today so we had to come all the way back from Poaque for that ) and we’ll take a picnic with us so we can stay out for the entire day.
Things to remember for next time:
Tie-downs for the canvases & pretty much everything else.
Always, always wear a tank top under outer layers, no matter what the weather looks like in Truchas.
Take more than one kind of blue paint.
Tweezers for picking desert dust & plant parts out of the paint & off the canvas.
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