Painting of San Diego Museum of Man
Afternoon light. Oil painting of the tower and dome of the Museum of Man in San Diego’s Balboa Park. This is the second version of this painting- the first, plein air version, painted from the Cabrillo Bridge, I did in oil pastel.
I rarely work in oil pastel- I usually prefer chalk pastels because they layer so nicely, and it’s easy to correct mistakes.
San Diego Painting- Bougainvillea in North Park
Morning in an alley in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood, with a riot of bougainvillea growing over a fence, backlit by the early sun.
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Trash Cans in the Alley, San Diego Painting
Trash cans lined up in a sunny alley. I like painting in alleys- it’s very peaceful.
Morning Street in Hillcrest- Painting of San Diego
I like cityscapes where the buildings are layered, in this case, by time as well as height. Georgia St in San Diego.
Painting of San Diego- North Park
From the Georgia St Bridge, looking out over North Park.
This is the second version of this view of North Park I’ve painted. Well, technically it is the first version, but the first layers of color didn’t dry fast enough (I’d been experimenting with a different oil painting medium), so I impatiently started over with a second version.
After finishing that one, I lost my steam for the first version and put it away for I’m not sure how long, at least a couple of months. But recently I found it in a stack of half-finished work, and decided to give it another effort.
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Garden With Morning Glory Flowers
I love this peaceful backyard, with its overhanging mimosa and magnolia trees, velvety lawn, and the cheerful morning glory overhanging the fence. They have bougainvillea too.
I’ve been intrigued lately by the idea of doing tourist paintings. I’m more drawn to the opposite of landmarks- random, run-down places, or just an everyday street- but I like the idea of painting landmarks as well.
Canaletto’s career was based on them; Renoir painted his own versions of Canaletto’s Venetian cityscapes. And of course we have the rich legacy of Paris Impressionist street scenes. Monet, to me, was the star of that genre, but there were quite a few Impressionist masters. I’ll see where this idea takes me.
Also featured here: Gamblin Portland Grey! I’m always on the lookout for better ways to paint our cool, overcast mornings.
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The house behind this fence, beautifully bursting with bougainvillea, is for sale. It’s an old Craftsman with intact original windows- and no parking! For me, lack of parking is not a deal breaker (I travel by hot air balloon).
An industrial building by the train tracks in Santa Barbara, California. I was intrigued by the way the evening light streamed across the landscape, making a pattern in the shadows. I had to get a sketch in so I could paint this scene when we got home.
I’m very attracted to the boxy shapes of old Modern buildings. An oxymoron I guess, but the industrial buildings in particular from the early 20th century had graceful proportions and simple silhouettes. We are seeing a revival & a reinterpretation of this style of architecture in San Diego right now, especially in apartment buildings, and I think it looks great. The theory, I think, is that form = function.
I especially like these buildings when they are situated along railroads.
This Victorian is across the street from where my drawing group meets. Before it was restored, it was a wreck, but it is beautiful now.
Like so many things, it just needed a little work.
Painting of San Diego Victorian House is for sale at my Etsy shop
Mission revival houses up on a hill- they have great views over North Park.
I like the steep pitch of the roof and the way this house (from the early 1900s?) seems to doze in its overgrown garden.
A pink house in Hillcrest, seen from the alley behind, on a bright, sunny San Diego morning.
I like out- of- the- way places like this quiet alley, with a low jumble of rooftops and back yards… I like to paint places that look like they aren’t trying too hard to impress.
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The Mission Valley Target Store has an eerie presence, long and low at the end of its empty, early-morning parking lot.
Like yesterday’s painting of the termite tent, I’d had a somewhat perverse itch to paint the Target store for a long time. I’m not going to try to analyze it.
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