We went to Idaho for a wedding and stayed in a beautiful secluded cabin. These are the views.
Trash Cans in Hillcrest
Termite Tent in Golden Hill
I painted this sometime last spring before I got sick. (Healthy now!)
Couch on the Street
Painted on location in Point Loma. The guys who live in the two houses behind me came out and told me the couch had been out there for a month. Apparently it was a rocking selfie spot. Also an unbelievably noisy place to paint. It looks like a quiet residential street, but there were cars and trucks blasting past in a constant stream like it was a freeway, and plane noise as well. But that’s San Diego. I’m sure these modest homes are worth close to a million dollars.
South Park, San Diego
Painted in the middle of the street, under the landing path to the airport.
White Peaches
White peaches from the Korean store.
Wild Mustard, San Diego
Termite Tent, South Park
Macarons
Palm Tree, Sherman Heights
Termite Tent, Banker’s Hill, San Diego
When I was working on this one, a worker from the fumigation company came over and asked if I was “that guy from Instagram who paints the tents.”
How to Stop Time
I’m working on a series of pictures of this spot. It’s a hike from anywhere you can park. They’ve recently installed a 3 way stop here, which has had the weird effect of making the spot seem much busier than when it was just a stretch of 50 MPH road. It alternately smells like exhaust and like growing things.
When I painted this one, the wildflowers were in full bloom. I went back today to do another piece as the landscape dries out and becomes the brown, gold, and tan of California summer. Both those plein air paintings are preparatory studies for larger pieces.
Grant Hill Plein Air
Even successfully gave directions to a woman tangled in the maze of dead end streets while painting this.
Santa Maria Landscape
We went to the Santa Ynez wine country for the weekend. My hope was to paint some scenic landscapes but I guess my heart wasn’t really in it and I wound up painting this. This was the town of Santa Maria, mostly just a string of strip malls with housing behind it, like so many small towns all over the United States.