Afternoon on the beach – for sale
Monarch Beach in Dana Point, California. I did a few open air paintings up and down the coast that day, and this studio painting is based on one of those.
Morning on the marsh – for sale
Morning on the salt marshes outside the beautiful town of Carpinteria, California.
Beach Dawn – for sale
Sunrise on Leadbetter beach in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
Early light on the beach – for sale
High tide just after dawn on the beach in Carpinteria, California. I almost avoided getting my shoes wet.
Laguna Beach – buy now
Just got back from 2 days painting in Laguna Beach. This one’s from Crystal Cove.
Capo Beach- buy now
A quiet afternoon at Capo Beach in Orange County, California.
East Beach- sold, but here are some others
I love East Beach.
Mission Bay – buy now
The place where Mission Bay flows into the Pacific Ocean, in Mission Beach.
Leadbetter cliffs – For Sale
Leadbetter cliffs at dawn, the beginning of a perfect day in Santa Barbara.
Maybe sold – but here are more California seascapes
East Beach- for sale
Painted “en plein air” or outside on the beach in Santa Barbara, California. I love this beach with its sailboats moored just offshore.
Boats Plein Air- buy now
A nice sunny day at Shelter Island in Point Loma.
A while back someone asked me to post in-progress shots. I mostly do that on my Facebook page (KevinInmanArt on Facebook) because it goes straight from my phone, but here goes. This painting is from Shelter Island in San Diego.
Nothing special about my approach here. It’s a typical alla prima painting starting from the white. I don’t always work this way. I like to experiment.
One rule I was taught in art school was, “never draw with a pencil” – as you can see I’ve disregarded that rule here. Actually the best piece of art advice I ever got was, “only follow advice if you are sure you understand it – and if you want to.”
So why do people say “don’t use a pencil”? Two reasons that I can see- one, beginning students have a tendency to get too tight with the drawing and two, because if the pencil drawing is wrong, your whole painting will be off. But I say, do what works for you.
So here I’ve completed the plein air, alla prima portion of the painting. The next step was to leave it in a stack of paintings for several weeks/months and then I pulled it out, touched it up, signed it, and here it is.
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.
Crystal Cove- for sale
This day in Laguna Beach had incredible light and atmosphere- clear glassy water and a dramatic dark blue cloudy sky.
Fiesta Island – for sale
Today’s plein air painting, painted on location at Fiesta Island in Mission Bay. Nice spot.
