Last Hours Before Sunset

I never tire of painting the many moods of these cliffs in Garrapata State Park, south of Carmel, California. This was late afternoon...about 2 hours before sunset. This painting was accepted into the 2012 American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition. This painting was done in the studio from a plein air study, right after my father entered hospice care...the title refers not only to the literal sunset approaching, but the sunset of my father's life. He passed away three weeks later...