Category Archives: Landscape Paintings

Sailboats on San Diego Bay Painting

Sailboats on San Diego Bay

Sailboats on San Diego Bay Painting

Sailboats on San Diego Bay – for sale

Sailboats on San Diego Bay. I enjoy the challenge of painting water, which is so many different colors at once, and the challenge of painting boats, which have complex curving shapes. This painting started out as drawings in a lawn chair on Shelter Island.

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego

Blacks Beach Bluffs

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego- for sale

Rolling surf seascape at Black’s Beach along the La Jolla, California coast. I love this beautiful area of the coast with its dramatic cliffs, wide beaches and hazy light; my knees love the stairs down to Blacks Beach somewhat less.

Balboa Park Plein Air Painting

Balboa Park Plein Air

The Alcazar Garden is one of my favorite, quiet spots in Balboa Park. It’s a formal garden with clipped hedges in patterns around flowerbeds, overhung with palm trees and surrounded by archways. This is my second painting from the OPA paint out a couple of Saturdays ago.

San Diego Painting, California Tower

California Tower in Balboa Park, San Diego

San Diego Painting, California Tower

San Diego Painting for sale, California Tower in Balboa Park

Great American Paintout

A couple of weeks ago we joined members of the Oil Painters of America to paint in Balboa Park. I chose the Alcazar Garden, so I could paint the California Tower (part of the Museum of Man). Also I like standing in the shade.

We took pictures of some of the other painters, though they have disappeared from the camera! Mysterious.

Virginia Mountain Landscape Painting Autumn Leaves

Autumn Landscape, Virginia

Virginia Mountain Landscape Painting Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves in Virginia’s Blue Ridge

This is actually, finally, the last of the plein air pieces from our recent trip to Virginia. I just walked out of the house and set up my easel across the road. I hope to do more studio paintings from the trip as well.

I had a similar view from my place in Virginia, and though my work in those days was considerably more abstract- this was during my MFA days- I did many paintings with a similar format to this one. Looking out at a distant blue skyline, from a high elevation.

Painting of Victorian House in San Diego

Pink Victorian House in U Heights

Painting of Victorian House in San Diego

Victorian house in University Heights, San Diego

This pink Italianate Victorian is, for me, the definition of real estate envy. I love the house and it’s in a great neighborhood- University Heights.

I really, really love these old houses. If I had the time, I’d become a realtor!

Virginia Autumn Leaves

Virginia Autumn Leaves Landscape Painting

Virginia Autumn Leaves Landscape Painting

This is one of the last of the plein air paintings from our recent trip to Blacksburg, Virginia, though there are a couple more that need polishing. Most days the weather was cool if not cold and gray, which I liked, at least in small doses.