Orange Ya Glad- Sold
Two clementines painted with a color triad. 12 x 16, oil on canvas.
Orange Ya Glad
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Sunrise Painting
Sunrise Painting – Buy now
The sky strewn with pink clouds.
Weary Garages, San Diego
Hillcrest- buy now
From last year, I think. These garages were down the hill from my old place, and I love the way they slump.
Nevada Desert Landscape
Nevada Desert Painting- For sale
I got turned around when headed to Red Rocks outside Las Vegas. Here’s the desert from where I wound up when I got lost. No red rocks here, but the blue mountains were very pretty.
Quonset Hut and Palm Trees
Quonset Hut and Palm Trees Painting – Buy now
We stopped in an industrial area. I’m not sure where we were- somewhere between LA and Santa Barbara. It was a little town with a palm-lined main street. I liked the quonset hut a lot.
I went to preschool in one- a quonset hut I mean. It was on Quantico- a military base in Virginia near Washington DC.
Watercolor Fella
A watercolor figure painting- for the uncropped image, please head over to my Flickr account.
Red Rocks Painting 3
Red Rocks Painting – For sale
This is the 3rd of 3 plein air paintings from Red Rocks, in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Those rocks really are red!
Red Rock Canyon Landscape Painting 2
Desert Mountains, Nevada – For sale
This is the 2nd of 3 plein air paintings I completed in Red Rocks Canyon, near Las Vegas. A really beautiful place.
Hillcrest, San Diego Plein Air
Hillcrest Painting San Diego Plein Air – For sale
Morning light on the corner of Robinson and Park Blvd in San Diego. A short walk from my house in Hillcrest.
I like this corner because of the way the buildings pile up on the hill behind the art deco building in front. I like painting steep areas.
San Francisco’s vertigo- inducing streets are more famous- but San Diego’s got its fair share of knee-killing ascents. Painting the city on the hills is a new project of mine.
Here are a few of my favorites:
North Park from Hillcrest
Hillcrest
North Park
University Heights
Santa Barbara Beach Sunset
Santa Barbara, California Beach Painting – Buy now
A rosy dusk on the beach in Santa Barbara, with sailboats softly lit golden by the setting sun.
Red Rock Canyon Painting
Red Rock Canyon Painting, Las Vegas, Nevada – Buy now
A plein air painting from Red Rock national conservation area in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I planned to go at dawn.
I would paint glorious desert sunrises. I left the hotel at 6:15. It was only 20 minutes to Red Rocks.
I then got hopelessly lost. But hope is an anchor, and I did not give up.
Those of you who’ve known me for a while are familiar with the drill. The night before, I carefully copied down directions to and from my hotel. I sent maps to my phone. I double checked everything. I drove out of the parking garage, took one wrong turn, and proceeded to drive all the way around the city on the beltway.
Eventually, I did find the right road, so I exited 215 and drove out into the desert. I was rejoicing- but I rejoiced too soon. The road dead-ended in a half-built subdivision.
Turned out I was still on the opposite side of town from Red Rocks. So I executed a 3 point turn and drove straight across the city for about 20 miles, or 40 miles, or however far it was, and arrived at Red Rocks around 2 PM. Red Rocks was stunningly beautiful so I think it was worth it.
The day was wonderfully mild- not 105 as I had feared, and I was able to work on several paintings. Here’s the first one.
Red Rock Canyon Plein Air
Morning Alley, Hillcrest
Hillcrest Alley, San Diego Art Painting
Morning in a Hillcrest alley. Abandoned tower PC in the dry, crackly weeds.
Female Figure Painting
Female Figure Painting
Painted from life during drawing group Sept 17, 2012.
Please click through to see the full, uncropped version at my Etsy shop.
North Park Deco Starbucks
North Park San Diego Painting
A corner in North Park, where a restored Deco- era movie theatre now also includes this Starbucks and a bar. This is University Ave and… Grim? 30th? Ray Street? This is a partial plein-air, partial studio piece.
North Park Cottage
Cottage in North Park, San Diego
A cottage in North Park, overhung by magnolia trees, in morning light.
And if you looked the other way that morning, you saw this:
Orange Tabby Cat Painting