Day 14 30 in 30 Challenge

Leslie's 30 in 30 Challenge

20 x 25 

Oils on gessoed cardboard

Another view of the Dead Sea... Life Guard station on Ein Gedi beach.  This was taken in 2003. Each year the beach recedes a meter or more... so this piece of beach is now flat hard sand and salt...

A tractor pulls a train along the hardened flats from the main spa to the beach ... this was also taken in 2003.. the tractors today are air conditioning cabins...

Tractor train 2003

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Heading toward the beach 

2009

Air-Conditioned Tractor

Oils with palette knife on 20 x 25 gessoed cardboard... 

Day 13 30 in 30 Challenge

Leslie's 30 in 30 Challenge

20 x 25

Oils of gessoed cardboard

Feeling a bit stressed... the work not flowing like it should... interruptions in the daily chores... feel on edge..shows up in my work.... and to top it off blogger is acting up!!!!

This is a view of the the Dead Sea on the Ein Gedi beach.  One of my favorite spots. have not done justice to the variations of the water and the vast hard sand beds with layers of salt... the Jordan hills in the distance...   20 x 25 oils with palette knife on gessoed cardboard.  

Day 12 30 in 30 Challenge

Leslie's 30 in 30 Challenge

22 x 25 cm

Oils on gessoed cardboard

Its just one of those days... nothing seems to work... probably scraped this a couple of times and also photographed it at least 3 times... even though its overcast today the black is not coming the way it looks in the painting.... in the spirit of and according to my own rule .".no matter what post"

Another of Mishmish and Ludwig dozing on the bed... again found it hard to get the details with the knife.

Oils done on gessoed cardboard with palette knife. Guess I have to simplify more!!!!