Misty Hills Poster

This scene is of the Auburn foothills in Auburn California. It's early morning. The sun is just beginning to warm the earth and chase away the mist.
The day I painted "Misty Hills" was a rare relaxing day for me. I had pre-stretched the canvas weeks before knowing what I was going to paint on it. I knew I wanted something different and special for this canvas and spent a lot of time gazing at it. Staring at a blank canvas can cause many artists great stress but not me. A blank canvas is like a "clean slate" begging to be filled. In the time between teaching, working and updating all my internet connections I went through 100's of photos, searching for just the right image. When I came across my image of the Auburn ravine. I knew "it" was the one.

After sketching in the hills and choosing my colors, my friend Phyllis came into my studio and asked if she could work on her painting and promised she wouldn't interrupt me. We chatted a bit while getting her set up then I went b...

Darice Machel McGuire lived on the beautiful Island of Maui from 2012 until the Lahaina fire on August 8th, 2023, destroyed her art studio. She and her husband have relocated to Grass Valley, California. They purchased a commercial building to reestablish their art studios. McGuire's Hawaii and California landscape oil and acrylic paintings are gracing the homes and offices of collectors nationally and internationally. McGuire's choice of subject matter comes from her love of nature and all that surrounds her on a daily basis. She paints in large and small formats. Three of the five galleries that represented her work were destroyed by the Lahaina fire. The two remaining galleries are Karen Lei's Gallery in Kahakuloa and Karen Lei's...