50-50 IV Installation

Proud artist Mary Kay with her 50 small works installed at the Sanchez Art Center.

50-50 IV Dune's Beach (Diptych)

Dune's Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 4 August 2012

Dune's Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 5 August 2012
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50-50 IV Beachwood (Diptych)

Beachwood (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 2 August 2012
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Beachwood (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 3 August 2012
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50-50 IV Dockweiler Beach (Diptych)

Dockweiler Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 18 July 2012
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Dockweiler Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 28 July 2012
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50-50 IV Tehachapi (Diptych)

Tehachapi (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 19 July 2012

Tehachapi (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 26 July 2012

50-50 IV Palo Alto Hills (Diptych)

Palo Alto Hills (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 17 July 2012
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Palo Alto Hills (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 26 July 2012
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50-50 IV Crystal Springs (Diptych)

Crystal Springs (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 7 August 2012
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Crystal Springs (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 24 July 2012
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50-50 IV Ross's Cove (Diptych)

Ross's Cove (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 25 July 2012

Ross's Cove (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 25 July 2012
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50-50 IV Martin's Beach, South (Diptych)

Martin's Beach, South (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 23 July 2012

Martin's Beach, South (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 24 July 2012

50-50 IV Martin's Beach (Diptych)

Martin's Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 14 July 2012

Martin's Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 14 July 2012

50-50 IV Hwy 395 (Diptych)

Hwy 395 (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 11 July 2012
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Hwy 395 (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created on 12 July 2012
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This cabin is just south of the Exxon gas station at the junction of Hwy 120 (Tioga Road through Yosemite) on Hwy 395. I snapped the original photo whizzing by in the car in summer, but painted it in winter snow.  I've lost the photo and now paint from a watercolor I did just before I went to Jackson Hole with my beloved Evelyn. This is the first time I have painted it in oils.

50-50 IV Redondo Beach, HMB (Diptych)

Redondo Beach, HMB (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 7 July 2012

Redondo Beach, HMB (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 8 July 2012

Redondo Beach is by the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay where I walk my dog Baci.

50-50 IV Pigeon Point Lighthouse (Diptych)

Pigeon Point Lighthouse (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created  9 July 2012
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created  9 July  2012
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50-50 IV Half Dome (Diptych)

Half Dome (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 7July 2012

Half Dome (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 7July 2012
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I have painted this scene in plein air twice and used my paintings and photo for these two. "My Secret Spot" is on the bank of the Merced River by Yosemite Lodge in early spring.

50-50 IV Hollyhock (Diptych)

Hollyhock (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 2 July 2012
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Hollyhock (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 3 July 2012
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50-50 IV Sand Hill Road (Diptych)

Sand Hill Road (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 13 June 2012
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Sand Hill Road (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 5 August 2012
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50-50 IV Ocean Avenue (Diptych)

Ocean Avenue (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 18 June 2012

Ocean Avenue (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 28 June 2012

50-50 IV Pillar Point Sunset (Diptych)

Pillar Point Sunset (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 18 June 2012
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Pillar Point Sunset (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 26 June 2012
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50-50 IV Poppy Field (Diptych)

Poppy Field (W/C), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 29 June 2012
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Poppy Field (Oil), 6 x 6", Mary Kay Jolley, created 25 June 2012
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50-50 IV Blue Tractor (Diptych)

Blue Tractor (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/19/12
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Blue Tractor (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 6/25/12
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I love this scene. The image of the oil is much more saturated than the w/c, but the originals are very close in hue.

50-50 IV McNee Ranch (Diptych)

McNee Ranch (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 17 June 2012 

McNee Ranch (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 25 June 2012
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50-50 IV Juliana Avenue (Diptych)

Rough Water at Juliana Avenue (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/15/12
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I painted the same scene a week apart, both in plein air, about the same time of day.  For today's oil, I moved over to the right about ten feet to capture the green and pink bluff and the surf filled with kelp. I live in such an incredibly beautiful place.

Juliana Avenue (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 6/22/12
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50-50 IV Bird's Rest (Diptych)

Bird's Rest (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/15/12
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This 50-50 process is fascinating to me. Last Friday, I painted the watercolor out on Juliana Avenue in Moss Beach.  The water was rough and gray. Today, a week later, I painted the oil from the same spot and the water was turquoise and calm.  It's obviously the same scene, but the media, lighting, and surf make both paintings feel very different.

Bird's Rest (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 6/22/12
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50-50 IV Surfer's Beach (Diptych)

Surfer's Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/14/12

Surfer's Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 6/22/12
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I painted both of these from a 12 x 24" oil of Surfer's Beach.

50-50 IV Miramar Beach (Diptych)

Miramar Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/21/12
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Miramar Beach (Oil), 6 x6", created on 6/20/12
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These two are the first of my diptychs. I painted the oil to go with Surfer's Beach (W/C), but they didn't look married. I painted the watercolor above from photos and the oil.

50-50 IV June 20, 2012

Mirada Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 20 June 2012

I painted my first oil for the 50-50 IV show yesterday on the bluff between Surfer's Beach and the Mirada Inn. My friend Catherine joined me and brought me lunch. Thank you, Catherine!  I was trying to paint the companion oil painting to go with the watercolor Sunlight on the Bluff, but when I got home, Eleanor concurred that they were not a fit marriage.

I've designed a nice little set up for painting in plein air.  I've got twenty-five  7 x 7" canvases taped down to  pieces of cardboard and my french easel stocked with the essentials. I'm ready! I'm on schedule and feeling up to the challenge of painting 41 more paintings in the next 41 days.