
Santa Barbara Beach Painting – (sold but here are more seascapes)
This is where we’re headed today! Looking forward to painting on the beach.

Santa Barbara Beach Painting – (sold but here are more seascapes)
This is where we’re headed today! Looking forward to painting on the beach.

Coronado Island Painting- For Sale
This painting is from the California Art Club paint-out a couple of months ago. November or December, I think. It was a day with huge, hard to believe surf crashing and unbelievable light.

San Elijo Lagoon- For Sale
Another plein air painting as the afternoon light began to get soft and quiet on the marshes.

Harbor Island Marina Watercolor – For Sale
A small plein air watercolor of the Harbor Island Marina. What a pretty, restful place to paint among the boats, the calm water, and the suntanned joggers.
It’s a great place to unwind.

San Clemente Pier Painting- For Sale
This was one of those bright, bright days where everything went bleached pale. It was very still.

Monarch Beach, Dana Point, California- For Sale
A perfect afternoon at Monarch Beach, in Dana Point, California.

San Elijo Lagoon Painting – For Sale
An open air painting of the tidal marshes at the San Elijo Lagoon. It’s a really great place.

Del Mar Beach Painting- Buy Now
The last painting of the afternoon, on the bluffs at the southern end of Del Mar, with the beach down the cliffs below.

Dana Point Sailboats Painting- For Sale
I loved the crowd of sailboats around Dana Point, and wished I was in one of them!
A view from the pier in beautiful San Clemente.
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Art Reception: Friday January 18 from 6-8 PM
Please join us for wine and refreshments at the opening of my show, “Places Here,” at the Lyceum Gallery in downtown San Diego. The show will feature 28 urban landscape paintings of San Diego. (More info and directions)

San Diego Skyline from Spanish Landing Park- For Sale
A small plein air watercolor of the San Diego skyline seen behind the Harbor Island Marina.
I’ve mostly posted oil paintings here, and I continue to paint in oil every day. But I’m eager for the freedom of pen and ink, highlighted with watercolor, so I’m increasingly turning to watercolor for quick studies. Normally I use pastel for those, but I feel like a change. So watercolor it is! I thought you might like to see some of them.
I painted this yesterday- a perfect sunny day- over lunch at Spanish Landing Park.
What was the lunch? Pesto pasta.

Ocean Beach Painting- For Sale
This plein air painting is looking at Ocean Beach from across the channel in Mission Beach.
From 12/31- officially my last painting of 2012!
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“Places Here,” a show of my urban landscapes, will open January 18 at the Lyceum Gallery in downtown San Diego.
This is kind of a companion to yesterday’s Blacks Beach painting, both scenes looking out to sea, and painted at the same time.
When I go to Blacks Beach, I try to do several paintings, since it’s at the bottom of these wonderful soaring cliffs and the stairs down to it are so killer. It’s a great place to paint, with every kind of light effect imaginable from the ethereal to the very stark.