Description
Drive for a Day is an original 6″ x 6″ watercolor in the “Tails California” collection of mini paintings painted on the back porch of a ranch in the oasis of the desert in June 2023. FRAME INCLUDED.
After having been home only two weeks from my artist’s residency in South Carolina in May, I flew to Las Vegas for a “Drive for a Day”, like the title of this watercolor painting, across the desert in a Ford Mustang with the love of my life. Our destination? Fallon, Nevada, home of the real Top Gun, the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center. Using Fallon as a base camp, we traveled to South Tahoe, California and several interesting locations in the Nevada desert.
Drive for a Day was painted in Nevada from photographs I took at Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge a wetlands right in the middle of sagebrush country. I loved the color scheme, the unexpected water, bullfrogs, and, of course, the birds! Western grebes floated gracefully, swallows buzzed our heads, and shorebirds squawked. My dry eyes were bugging out!
I couldn’t resist applying a favorite 90’s country song title Heads Carolina, Tails California to my two new series of watercolor paintings. Going from a romantic, humid trip to South Carolina to paint, visit friends, and enjoy lake time to a drive across the desert all the way from Vegas to California was too much for my artist’s soul to not express in fresh artwork from both locations. Plus, after driving six hours from Vegas to Fallon, the lyrics “Drive for a day and then we’ll take a look at the map” from this country song, just seemed appropriate.
The Tails California series uses the same fresh, light and breezy colors and loose brushstrokes as the Heads Carolina series. I think both series are a good reminder that we don’t have to fret decisions; maybe both options, heads or tails, are going to be in our best interests.
This 6″ x6″ original watercolor painting comes framed in a 10″ x 10″ gold frame for your wall or table. I envision the framed painting being displayed on a table in a foyer, tastefully in a powder room, or on a desk, but really you’re the one who gets to decide. Where would you like your daily does of inspiration?
