At a sidewalk cafe.
Painted this morning over breakfast in Little Italy, at a cafe with great food and insanely slow service, I’m talking 20 minutes to get a plain cup of coffee. And the baristas use fake Italian accents. for sale
Commission, headed out the door. Turns out 5 commissions at the same time is a little overcommitted, and everything is weeks or months late. I think this one is ready to go out the door though.
This turned out to be a very fun place to paint. The people on the trains waved as they rolled past, and there were an incredible number of pedestrians.
I’m really drawn to tented buildings. for sale
From last year. During Jury Duty, I had a long lunch break and wandered down until I found a coffee shop. The coffee shop had a kind of glass cage where you could sit on the patio and paint things. for sale
Evening light in the Alcazar Garden in Balboa Park… I love this peaceful, formal garden, based on one in Sevilla (I seem to remember). for sale
A painting from last year, painted on my lunch break from jury duty. for sale
*update. As I look at this, that’s a trolley and not the bus. Oh well.
One night last winter, the Chargers won a game or something, and the city lit up the library dome in the team colors. This will never happen again. The Chargers never win. for sale
This spot is a few blocks from my house in the Sherman Heights historic district. I went down to try to capture it.
There’s a line in Camus that says: “..all Algiers at his feet, around them like a dark, glittering cape of jewels and shells.”
The combination of the jacaranda tree and the recycling bin was too much for me to resist. for sale
I was, to say the least, overjoyed this apartment building dealt with their termite problem so colorfully. for sale
I love the name of the neighborhood too: Golden Hill. Who wouldn’t want to live on a hill made gold in the afternoon sun?
I like to go to different laundromats so I have something new to paint each time I wash clothes.
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Gas Station painting – for sale
Tore up from the floor up, this gracefully decayed 60s Modern gas station is now a construction site – luxury condos and an organic market. Pretty sure the new building will be hideous, but maybe they’ll surprise us.
Baroque Columns – for sale
Painted on location last year in Balboa Park.
Gazebo in Spring- for sale
Painted on location last year in Balboa Park.
Archways- for sale
Another one from last year. A plein air painting from the Cabrillo bridge, looking at the Museum of Man.
I normally work on smoother surfaces, but this very coarse canvas was in the back of the car so I gave it a shot. Painting architecture on such a small scale on a highly textured surface isn’t easy, maybe not advisable unless you want it to get very abstract.
