The Santa Barbara morning yields a soft array of colors often missed during the day, when it is splashed with high contrasts of the heady sun. Min paints this piece as cool colors slowly transition to warmer ones as the day unfolds. On the stucco mission walls, one finds a dozen nuanced off-whites and creams.
The mostly empty tables and cool pastels of the painting are soothing and refreshing as figures in the background enjoy a cool drink in the leafy shade across from the blushing erisimum-draped walls.
The sun’s glimmer in this oil painting, in itself resplendent, accentuates the distinctive Spanish Colonial style architecture, red tile roofs and candy colored awnings of California’s Santa Barbara on a radiant day.
