Category Archives: San Diego Paintings

North Park San Diego Painting

North Park Panorama, San Diego

North Park San Diego Painting

View over North Park – Buy Now

This is the third or maybe fourth painting I’ve done here. I love this view of the city, with so many buildings and hills.

Georgia Street Bridge, San Diego

We’re looking out over North Park from the Georgia Street Bridge.

San Diego Urban Painting

Mission Hills Street, San Diego

San Diego Urban Painting

House in Mission Hills – For Sale

I love the old houses in Mission Hills, and I was especially captivated by the shapes and colors of this one, with its rooms over the garage and Airstream trailer parked out front.

Coronado Beach Painting San Diego

Coronado Beach

Coronado Beach Painting San Diego

Coronado Beach Painting San Diego – For Sale

This is an older painting, from a little further up the beach than where I worked on this piece last weekend:

Coronado Plein Air

The surf was much more dramatic on Saturday, but the colors of the day were almost the same. This is winter light in San Diego. 😉 (I did need a long sleeve shirt to ward off the chill.)

Outside the Laundromat, San Diego

San Diego Urban Painting

Plein Air Outside The Laundromat While My Clothes Were Drying – for sale through Randy Higbee Gallery. 6 x 6 inches, oil on wood, framed.

I was very excited and honored to hear that this painting is included in the amazing 6″ Squared show at Randy Higbee Gallery. The opening Gala Artists’ Reception is Saturday, December 8th, from 5 to 9 PM. (102 Kalmus, Costa Mesa, CA Get Directions.) I’m looking forward to the opening next weekend, and if you are in Orange County, I hope to see you there!

I always liked the steepness of this street, with its pile of buildings crowned with giant, shaggy date palms and a Victorian commercial building housing a yoga studio. The street is lined with a mix of architectural styles, with Victorian cottages at the bottom, 1920s Spanish Revival buildings that house holistic healing places halfway up, and an awesome 1960s Modern library on the opposite side.

I wound up choosing this vantage point because it was the easiest place to park while doing laundry. Lugging the laundry up the hill was not fun, but it was the perfect place, it turned out, to paint.

Also of note, there’s a great Naples-style pizza place right around the corner.

On to other topics.

I’m also excited to announce a solo show of my urban landscape paintings at the Lyceum Gallery!

San Diego Painting

House in Hillcrest

The Gallery is located at the San Diego Rep Theatre lower lobby, in Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego. The show will coincide with Clybourne Park. Opening night and reception, Friday January 18; the play starts at 8 PM. More details to follow.

Sunrise in San Diego Painting

Sunrise on Cypress

Sunrise in San Diego Painting

Sunrise on Cypress Avenue in San Diego – For Sale

A rare clear morning. So close to the ocean we usually have fog, or at least that’s my impression since let’s face it, I’m not usually up this early.

This is a painting of my street.

Not up quite this early today to meet other painters in the California Art Club on the beach at Coronado, right by the Hotel Del.

Coronado Beach Painting

I wanted to do a painting of the hotel also, but was running late for a parade in North Park!

I enjoyed the samba dancers:

Samba Dancers

Kayaks on the Beach, La Jolla Painting

La Jolla Beach Kayaks

Kayaks on the Beach, La Jolla Painting

Kayaks on the Beach, La Jolla – For Sale

Kayaks drawn up on the beach in La Jolla. This is such a tranquil spot.

And unlike Black’s Beach, no need to climb down what must be thousands of feet of cliffs. 😉

San Diego Skyline Painting

San Diego Skyline

San Diego Skyline Painting

Painting of Downtown San Diego- For Sale

Painted from life in Golden Hill, overlooking the crisscrossing freeways and towers of downtown.

I like to get out of the studio and paint the city of San Diego and the places I travel to.

San Diego Skyline Painting

San Diego Skyline Painting- from Golden Hill