I finished the first of two paintings that will be used to make spring toys for a playground to be constructed by the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County at Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook in the Black Lake Canyon Preserve.  This one is a California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) and the second will be an Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna).

Here’s a trip backwards through four stages of the work in progress: