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I painted en plein air\u00a0recently in a place that has always intrigued me with\u00a0it’s dramatic architecture, interesting shadows and reflections and of course the famous red trolleys–that is, at the San Diego Metropolitan Transit system’s Santa Fe Depot at One America Plaza in downtown San Diego. \u00a0Here’s a pic of the architecture which previously won an “Orchid Award” in the annual San Diego Architectural Foundation review of San Diego developments and construction projects which either effuse\u00a0the elegance of an orchid…or the stink of an onion.<\/p>\n

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The arch of the Trolley weather port at Santa Fe Depot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I arrived early…before 8:00am and set up my easel in the traffic island at the center of the intersection at\u00a0Broadway and Kettner. \u00a0It was a great place from which to paint\u00a0and provided the perfect vantage of the trolleys coming and going. Painting the trolley itself was done in fits and spurts as one trolley would leave but another would arrive in\u00a0minutes and for the most part, with a few exceptions, was\u00a0identical. \u00a0Here’s a pic of my easel, with two trolleys in the station in the background…<\/p>\n

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Easel and painting of Ronald Lee Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was interesting to paint with the traffic rolling by and when the traffic would stop, folks would gawk out the car windows, inquisitively at the patently unusual sight of a crazed plein air painter in the middle of traffic, wearing a big, Guatemalan palm leaf, cowboy hat, pacing to and fro, wielding a long, paint laden brush like a picador, stabbing at a canvas as if it were\u00a0a snorting bull trying to gore\u00a0him. Many pedestrians walking by gave the big, “thumbs up” and commented that I was making a beautiful painting, which is always encouraging. \u00a0Here’s the result of the morning’s effort–a 16 x 16 inch oil on stretched canvas, titled “Rolling Through.” \u00a0Whether it is an “orchid” or an “onion” or the bull won is in the proverbial eye of\u00a0the beholder…<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe Trolley Depot as painted by California artist, Ronald Lee Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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