Rocky Stream Canvas Print

This little landscape is a scene somewhere in the Sierra Mountains. Patches of snow are still on the ground. The stream is full from the melting snow. Grass is beginning to grow. When I lived in Tahoe I often hiked the Desolation wilderness in the Spring. Winters made me feel claustrophobic and I couldn't wait to get out and stretch my legs. But Spring in the mountains comes late. Most the trails would still have deep snow patches causing a two or three mile hike to be an ordeal.

I painted this scene with acrylics on watercolor paper. It was a class demo. I was teaching how to get the different textures and colors on the rocks and make the transparent water look like it was moving.
"Copyright 2011, Darice Machel McGuire, All rights reserved"

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...