Mission Reflections

Watercolor and story by Richard Smith

As a new artist, and retired high school science teacher, I am learning to understand how to represent the world around me to reflect its beauty and wonder. In this example, while the Mission Santa Barbara is the obvious focus, the fountain in the foreground is the only remaining part of an earlier mission destroyed by an earthquake. Thus, this painting is a deep look through time at the historic mission.

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Richard Smith

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