Afternoon light – for sale
Shadows and light crisscross on the train tracks in Santa Barbara.
Train Tracks in Santa Barbara, California
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Houses in Hillcrest
But overlooking North Park – for sale
Just a couple of blocks away. I really like these long, sloping front lawns. The houses are great too, and have great views East over North Park.
Speaking of which:
Saturday May 18, I’ll be at North Park Festival of Arts, in the juried artists area.
North Park Festival of Arts
Booth J-24
On University Ave near Iowa St.
Saturday May 18
11-6.
Bougainvillea in North Park Alley
North Park San Diego- for sale
Palm trees, power lines, and bougainvillea in beautiful North Park, San Diego.
Speaking of North Park, next Saturday May 18, I’ll be at North Park Festival of Arts, in the juried artists area.
North Park Festival of Arts
Booth J-24
On University Ave near Iowa St.
11-6.
Hope to see you there!
Little Italy Victorian Houses, San Diego
Cottages in Little Italy – San Diego – buy now
Here’s my painting from the Little Italy Art Walk last weekend. Thank you again to everyone who stopped by. I think I posted the one below already- the painting hasn’t been touched since the plein air session.
And working on the piece:
San Diego Victorian House Painting
Victorian cottage painting For Sale
This Victorian cottage is across the street from where one of my drawing groups meets, in the East Village of San Diego. Before it was restored, it was a wreck, but it is beautiful now.
The before:
Like so many things, it just needed a little work.
Chair in an Alley, San Diego
Chair in the Alley – buy now
Sunlight and shadows in a Hillcrest alley, San Diego, California.
Another Plein Air at the Art Walk, Little Italy
Fir Street, Little Italy
Today’s plein air painting from the Mission Federal ArtWalk in Little Italy, San Diego. There was an old lime green cottage next door to a dusky twilight Craftsman (maybe Victorian, I’m not sure)- right across from my booth. A perfect place to paint.
Little Italy Plein Air San Diego
Gloss
This salon in a great old Craftsman is across from my booth at Mission Federal Art Walk. I’m in 784 on Fir St, between India and Columbia Streets, and I’ll be there until 6 PM Sunday, doing another plein air painting. It should be another beautiful day in San Diego!
Hillcrest Painting, San Diego
Alley & Phone Wires – for sale
Morning light in an alley in Hillcrest. This painting started life as a plein air drawing.
Here are some announcements too. I have a booth at the Art Walk in Little Italy this Saturday and Sunday. My studio is completely full of frames and paintings waiting to be framed in them. If you’d like to stop by, I’d love to see you!
Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28, 2013
Mission Federal Art Walk, Little Italy, San Diego
Booth 784, on Fir Street between Columbia and India streets.
Capo Beach Painting
For the Orange County folks, another event this weekend. I’ve got 2 paintings including “Capo Beach” in the Less Is More show of plein air paintings at Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA. Opening reception is Saturday April 27th 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. and the show runs April 27- May 10. This should be a great show.
Happy Thursday!
Crest Cafe Hillcrest San Diego Drawing
Crest Cafe, Hillcrest- buy now
A cool grey morning with the marine layer overhead so I went with black and white for this drawing of the famed Crest Cafe in Hillcrest, San Diego. Drawn from life from the patio where I was eating breakfast across the street.
Visited not one but two storage units today to get stuff for Mission Federal Art Walk next weekend. Both booths have resident bears to guard our treasures.
Booth 784, on Fir Street between Columbia and India streets.
Saturday & Sunday April 27 & 28th, Little Italy, San Diego. Maybe we’ll see you there! Bears are optional.
https://www.themovingcastle.com/?page_id=3946 .
University Heights, San Diego
Car repairs and palm trees- buy now
Painted from a drawing on the tables outside Lestat’s on Park coffee shop in University Heights.
Kensington, San Diego Watercolor
Sunday at Starbucks, painted over morning coffee from the patio.
A pen and ink and watercolor sketch of a midcentury gas station in Kensington.
San Diego Night Painting
San Diego Nocturne- for sale
The night the laundry room flooded. We live in an old Spanish style building with lots of patios and outdoor living spaces. I thought the water was so beautiful running out the laundry room door and along the tiles.
Mission Bay Painting San Diego
Fiesta Island – for sale
Today’s plein air painting, painted on location at Fiesta Island in Mission Bay. Nice spot.
Hillcrest San Diego Pencil Drawing- of the Pinkberry
Pencil drawing of Hillcrest- buy now
I drew this over breakfast this AM on the patio tables at Einstein’s Bagels in Hillcrest. This is the Pinkberry. Halfway through the drawing someone came and parked a gigantic pickup truck right in front of me. I had to keep standing up and peering over its enormity to finish the drawing.
I’d intended to do a watercolor painting this morning, but the cap had come off my pen inside my bag and it dried out. And though the art store is just across the street, it stubbornly did not open in time to buy a new pen. So I worked in graphite.