Day two in Catalina

On the second day of our Catalina painting trip, we got up early had breakfast, and headed out to paint. We went down the walkway along the beach towards the casino, and pass the Yacht Club, I turned around and started painting the atmospheric view with the Yacht Club in the view. Shortly after I started painting, the clouds started to lift, and the blue ski started peaking through at the top of the hills. It was quite magical, and I hope I achieved it. It was now about 11 am, so we stoped by the local Vons and picked up deli sandwiches and came down to get a taxi to take us up to the vista point, overlooking Avalon, on Mt. Ada. When we got there I noticed a nice park like area, we could walk into with views of Avalon on one side and another bay on the other side. Also up in this area was a large grove of Eucalyptus trees of various types and ages. It was such a beautiful location, I had a hard time deciding what to paint. I finally settled on the view of the Casino looking through a grouping of Eucalyptus trees. When I finished, I went to check on what Terry and Joan had done, and found that Terry was finished with her lovely painting of Avalon bay, and Joan was finishing her painting. I turned around and did a quick painting of one of the trees in view from where I was standing. I do want to come back and paint this location, and we all decided it will be more beautiful even later in the afternoon. That evening we painted night scenes again.