Painting palms

I've just returned from a one-week trip to the California desert.... Although I spent most of my time photographing, I did manage to squeeze in a little plein air painting time (painting Three Palms for Gail, which you can see on the Desert page).

Now I have something around 2500 photographs to go through – mostly photographs of rock formations, palm trees, Joshua trees – all resources and inspiration for a series I'm planning of paintings of the desert.