
Sunday plein air- buy now
Painted from a bench by the beach, in front of the Hotel Del, on Coronado Island.

Sunday plein air- buy now
Painted from a bench by the beach, in front of the Hotel Del, on Coronado Island.

On the canyon- buy now
Painted from my aunt’s deck in San Diego.

Hillcrest- buy now
I’m not sure if anyone could park in these sagging things.

Vantage point off the San Clemente pier. From last year. buy now

Afternoon in the pines – for sale
The light is changing rapidly these days as summer has turned to fall. Here’s another attempt to capture the light on the Torrey Pines, in Del Mar.
Torrey pines by the ocean in La Jolla, California. For sale

Water, hill, and houses- buy now
On Point Loma, painted from a pizza place on the harbor.

Mt Soledad plein air- for sale
I’ve been drawn to sculptural trees lately, ones near the ocean that have been twisted and bent by the wind. This piece is from Mount Soledad in La Jolla, California.

Torrey Pines- buy now
Trees sculpted by the wind in Del Mar, California.

Arches – for sale
Recently the city covered over a parking lot in the middle of Balboa Park. It’s changed the feeling completely, and I wanted to paint that.

Fall light in Hillcrest- buy now
Today the light shifted from summer to fall, just like that. Here’s my attempt to capture it.

Afternoon light on the pines- for sale
I wanted to paint this hillside because it reminded me of Monet’s series of paintings of the Customs House at Varengeville.
Monet worked in series, capturing the same thing in different light effects. Some of these paintings are here in the USA, and you can see them side by side. There are several of the Rouen Cathedral paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and several of the Haystack paintings at the Getty in LA.
But I think the Customs House paintings are scattered. We have one here in San Diego at the SMDA, and I just saw another at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. It was the one at the Legion of Honor- a riot of pinks during a blazing noon- that made me think about this place in Torrey Pines.

Morning coffee- buy now
This Sunday’s breakfast painting.

the Hotel Del- buy now
Painted this morning on a bench in Coronado.

Orange Awnings – buy now
This Victorian block in the Gaslamp Quarter- downtown San Diego- now houses a Hooters franchise.