Tag Archives: california

Sailboats on San Diego Bay Painting

Sailboats on San Diego Bay

Sailboats on San Diego Bay Painting

Sailboats on San Diego Bay – for sale

Sailboats on San Diego Bay. I enjoy the challenge of painting water, which is so many different colors at once, and the challenge of painting boats, which have complex curving shapes. This painting started out as drawings in a lawn chair on Shelter Island.

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego

Blacks Beach Bluffs

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego

Blacks Beach Painting San Diego- for sale

Rolling surf seascape at Black’s Beach along the La Jolla, California coast. I love this beautiful area of the coast with its dramatic cliffs, wide beaches and hazy light; my knees love the stairs down to Blacks Beach somewhat less.

Balboa Park Plein Air Painting

Balboa Park Plein Air

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.

San Diego Painting, California Tower

California Tower in Balboa Park, San Diego

San Diego Painting, California Tower

San Diego Painting for sale, California Tower in Balboa Park

Great American Paintout

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.

Painting of Victorian House in San Diego

Pink Victorian House in U Heights

Painting of Victorian House in San Diego

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!

Waves on the Rocks, Cabrillo

San Diego Seascape Painting

San Diego Seascape Painting- For Sale

Waves crashing on the rocks on Cabrillo point. I’d planned to touch up this plein air painting in the studio, but after living with the painting for a while, decided to leave it as-is. Something about the less polished state appeals to me.