Cottonwood Trees in Nevada Sunshine

Cottonwoods in Nevada, oil on canvas 24" x 30"
This Nevada landscape captures the cottonwood trees which turn to brilliant yellow at the first onset of cold. The mountain desert is spotted with color in the Fall at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada Range in the Carson Valley. We'll be up there for the holidays and I hope to find more inspirational views. This trip will likely produce snowscapes!
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Carson Valley, Nevada Oil Painting

Carson Valley, at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
oil on canvas
30" x 36"

The Carson Valley in Northern Nevada has the drama of light and shadow in all seasons. The Sierra Nevada range rises straight up from the valley floor. I liked the brightness of the cottonwood trees and desert Yaro up against the blue-purple mountains on this Spring day.

Other Northern Nevada paintings by Jim Promessi:
Sierra Nevadas, 24" x 30"
Cottonwoods in Nevada 2 SOLD, oil 22" x 28"

Hiking Along a Path

Hiker is a pastel painting of a person hiking away from Molera Beach along a trail which is mostly meadow.

Every Spring we enjoy a few days at Big Sur near Molera Beach. Some years the river washes out the footbridge and we forge the waters to get to the mile-long trail which leads the ocean. Wildflowers are abundant and the meadow is interspersed with cottonwood trees.

Hiker, pastel on paper
12 x 15.5 in.

Other pastel paintings by Jim Promessi
Tapestry, 22 x 28 in.
Point Reyes National Seashore, 23 x 28 in.
Oaks, Clouds (Elkhorn), 22 x 29 in.