Two Granny Smith Apples – for sale
Two Granny Smiths. I like the delicate color shifts in the greens of these apples, and I wanted to try out a different color palette. AND I’d bought twelve apples just in case I didn’t have enough for a pie. 😉 So this painting was born.
Morning light in Florida Canyon. You just have a few minutes when the sun comes through the fog like this, before the fog burns off.
The Alcazar Garden is one of my favorite, quiet spots in Balboa Park. It’s a formal garden with clipped hedges in patterns around flowerbeds, overhung with palm trees and surrounded by archways. This is my second painting from the OPA paint out a couple of Saturdays ago.
Torrey Pines Painting for sale
A painting of the Pacific off La Jolla, from the Torrey Pines Glider Port.
San Diego Painting for sale, California Tower in Balboa Park
A couple of weeks ago we joined members of the Oil Painters of America to paint in Balboa Park. I chose the Alcazar Garden, so I could paint the California Tower (part of the Museum of Man). Also I like standing in the shade.
We took pictures of some of the other painters, though they have disappeared from the camera! Mysterious.
Autumn Leaves in Virginia’s Blue Ridge
This is actually, finally, the last of the plein air pieces from our recent trip to Virginia. I just walked out of the house and set up my easel across the road. I hope to do more studio paintings from the trip as well.
I had a similar view from my place in Virginia, and though my work in those days was considerably more abstract- this was during my MFA days- I did many paintings with a similar format to this one. Looking out at a distant blue skyline, from a high elevation.
California Light, San Diego Landscape Painting
Morning light in Balboa Park, in San Diego, California.
Gourd Still Life Painting
Gourd in a pink field. I started Thanksgiving shopping today.
Blue Ridge Mountains Painting, outside Blacksburg, Virginia
A cloudy day in Virginia, painted from across the street in the neighbors’ front yard.
Victorian house in University Heights, San Diego
This pink Italianate Victorian is, for me, the definition of real estate envy. I love the house and it’s in a great neighborhood- University Heights.
I really, really love these old houses. If I had the time, I’d become a realtor!
Balboa Park Hill Path, San Diego Landscape Painting
Steep and hard on the knees!
Gladiolus Still Life Painting
Pink gladioli.
Virginia Autumn Leaves Landscape Painting
This is one of the last of the plein air paintings from our recent trip to Blacksburg, Virginia, though there are a couple more that need polishing. Most days the weather was cool if not cold and gray, which I liked, at least in small doses.
French Macarons Still Life Painting
One of my favorite desserts.
One more small studio painting of Red Rocks, outside Las Vegas.
