This painting was created during the Laguna Plein Air Invitational in Laguna Beach, California in October 2010. It was a challenging week weather-wise. I spent quite a long time searching for sunshine, but this moody scene, with the fog drifting in captured my attention and drew me in. Here is the photo of the actual scene...

I chose to do quite a bit of editing. I felt that leaving out all the fencing and several of the poles, etc. made for a better composition and improved the feel of piece. There were several comments from local residents that by editing as I did, it gave the painting the feeling of what the canyon looked like several years ago, before so much development occurred there...I liked that!