Carrizo, Billions of Gold Fields

Sold.  I've been painting in the studio recently with my heart in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, about 2 hours away. I'm using my old reference photos from years of prolific blooms and am painting small and fast to capture these thoughts and feelings.  This is a field of flowers called "Gold Fields" - and they literally do cover entire fields when they are flush. It is a painting done with palette knife, not brush, with lots of paint and heavy texture.  Unframed.