Category Archives: Urban Landscapes

Suburban Scene

San Diego Plein Air Landscape Painting

This area is called Allied Gardens, one of San Diego’s postwar suburbs. It has curving residential streets and culdesacs that branch off a busy road lined with strip malls. There are suburbs like this all over the country, places that once offered an idea of safety and a particular way of life and to some extent still do.

I have grown interested in this type of area recently. They really say a lot about American culture.

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Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

Rome Italy Painting Castel Sant'Angelo by Kevin Inman

I rented an apartment on AirBNB in Rome with a partial view of Castel Sant’Angelo, an ancient structure later used as a fortress by the Popes. The view was very partial, you could really only see it by peering over the neighbor’s patio through some kind of spiky screen covered in plastic vines. To get around that for the painting, I stood on the rickety metal steps to the roof with my easel in a planter box, on top of the crusty remains of departed flowers. In gale force winds, but I didn’t blow off.

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