San Diego Sunset Painting – For Sale
Here’s another piece from earlier in the year, that I couldn’t get a decent picture of until recently. This is one of the canyons in Balboa Park, a couple of streets away from my house.
San Diego Seascape Painting
With this painting, I was aiming for what Monet did with the cliffs at Etretat:
He did many paintings there, and I’m going to try again with this one at a lower elevation, which I hope will give the cliffs the sense of presence they have in real life.
San Diego Sea Cliffs Plein Air
The Palm, San Diego Painting- For Sale
I think this apartment building in Hillcrest/U Heights is probably from the 60s, since Modern design from that decade was more delicate. Whenever it’s from, it’s a cool place.
Decayed Modernism is so prevalent in southern California. Modernist architecture, urban planning, and design had mostly utopian ideals, trying to make people’s lives better through design. Did it work? I’m not sure, and there’s something poignant about the irony of those high ideals contrasted with buildings in disrepair.
Cabrillo Point San Diego Painting- For Sale
A nice day at Cabrillo Point, looking out over the Pacific.
San Diego Plein Air
This painting required some touching up in the studio afterwards. The horizon line was bugging me, so I fixed that. My wet painting carrier also gouged off a strip of paint on the left side, which I knew was going to happen but I didn’t get around to fixing it until it had already dried, so I just tried to match the color.
Balboa Park Landscape- for sale
Morning in Balboa Park, San Diego.
Autumn Landscape, San Diego, California- for sale
A morning walk in the trails in Balboa Park, San Diego, with the fog turning to lemonade over Golden Hill.
San Diego Nocturne –For sale
This is an older plein aire nocturne from last winter, when I did several night paintings. I never got around to publishing this one because the combination of the dark colors and the shininess led to flash glare, wrong colors, and sadness. Here’s my heroic effort to finally photograph this piece.
Autumn Leaves, San Diego- For sale
Eucalyptus trees washed with gold in morning light, San Diego. I like to walk here in the morning, with different vistas of meadow and forest opening up.
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.
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
Hillcrest Alley, San Diego Art Painting
Morning in a Hillcrest alley. Abandoned tower PC in the dry, crackly weeds.
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.
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
Coronado Beach, San Diego ,California – landscape painting
A bright sunny day on the beach in Coronado.
San Diego Urban Painting
Morning in a cloudy alley in Hillcrest. Old houses and recycling bins- two of my favorite things to paint!