Plein Air: Pearland Rice Canal

This is a 12" x 15" plein air oil sketch of a rice canal crossing County Road 100 in Pearland, TX.

I finished this sketch in September, and it took three mornings and a can of Gulf Off. 

Here are more sketches of the rice canal. There are tons of turtles, and the neighborhood kids try to trap them by tying bait to the end of a string and flinging it over the side of the bridge. The bottom picture depicts a crude oil pipe-line crossing the canal going to a storage tank on the other side.