Santa Barbara Beach Clouds – For Sale
Morning on the beach in Santa Barbara, cool mist in the air.
Cloudy Beach Morning, Santa Barbara Painting
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Ocean Beach Painting, San Diego
Ocean Beach Painting- San Diego – For Sale
A sunny day on the beach in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California.
Autumn Morning, San Diego
Autumn Landscape, San Diego, California- for sale
A morning walk in the trails in Balboa Park, San Diego, with the fog turning to lemonade over Golden Hill.
San Diego Nocturne
San Diego Nocturne –For sale
This is an older plein aire nocturne from last winter, when I did several night paintings. I never got around to publishing this one because the combination of the dark colors and the shininess led to flash glare, wrong colors, and sadness. Here’s my heroic effort to finally photograph this piece.
Morning Alley, Hillcrest
Hillcrest Alley, San Diego Art Painting
Morning in a Hillcrest alley. Abandoned tower PC in the dry, crackly weeds.
North Park Cottage
Cottage in North Park, San Diego
A cottage in North Park, overhung by magnolia trees, in morning light.
And if you looked the other way that morning, you saw this:
Orange Tabby Cat Painting
Coronado Beach Painting
Coronado Beach, San Diego ,California – landscape painting
A bright sunny day on the beach in Coronado.
The Cloudy Alley
San Diego Urban Painting
Morning in a cloudy alley in Hillcrest. Old houses and recycling bins- two of my favorite things to paint!
Santa Barbara Beach Clouds
Santa Barbara Beach Painting
A cool walk on the beach in Santa Barbara in a cloudy, grey morning.
Cottage Liquor, Hillcrest
Cottage Liquor in Hillcrest. This is where I go to buy 90% of my Lotto tickets.
This is as far as I got with the painting plein air before the sun got too fierce, around 9:30 AM. I’d already had to move the easel once (the date palm went behind the building when I did) to get under a tree… one of my first painting teachers told us, paint in the shade, and she’s absolutely right.
Santa Ynez Valley Landscape Painting
Santa Ynez Valley Landscape Painting is for sale.
Sunny skies, golden summer grass, and deep green shade in the Santa Ynez Valley, near Santa Barbara, CA.
We spent a long weekend in Santa Barbara earlier in the summer, and I just discovered this and a couple of other paintings that I forgot to post. It’s a beautiful place.
We joined a wine club the day I started this painting up in the hills over Santa Barbara… and that wine shipment should arrive any minute now!
Georgia Street Bridge, San Diego Painting
Georgia Street Bridge, San Diego Painting
From the southeast corner of University Ave, in Hillcrest, looking up at the retaining walls of the Georgia St bridge over the avenue. This painting was a long time coming. I started it last winter and pulled it out periodically since then, working, wiping off the paint, giving up for a while.
Most recently I made one of my feeble efforts to clean the studio and found the painting again and I thought SURELY THIS TIME I can finish.
Newport Ave, San Diego
Palm Trees in Ocean Beach- San Diego Painting
Palms lining Newport Ave in Ocean Beach, San Diego. This converted movie theatre is now a Wings.
Painting of the San Diego Museum of Man
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.
Bougainvillea in North Park
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.
San Diego Painting is for sale.