Pineapple Orange and Watermelon Still Life Buy Now
This is the study for a larger painting, and every time I look at it I hear a Shakira song in my head that must have been playing while I worked on both pieces. The song goes “Solo tu something something.” It’s off the album “Donde Estan Los Ladrones” which is one of my go-to painting soundtracks.
Still Life with Grapes – For Sale
A Spanish new year’s tradition.
Night Fog in Hillcrest – Buy Now
This painting is from last New Year’s Eve. It was bitterly cold, for San Diego, which means it was in the upper 30s.
That night, dense fog rolled over the city and as we walked home through Hillcrest, the fog was so thick we could see only vague outlines of the buildings across Park Blvd.
This painting was my attempt to recreate the mood of that night.
Coronado Street, San Diego- For Sale
Two palms in front of a Streamline Moderne garage on Coronado.
Mission Trails Park, San Diego – For Sale
I enjoy painting at Mission Trails- amazing scenery, with mountains, wetlands, and the remains of an early reservoir built by the Spanish.
Blacks Beach Painting, San Diego
This is kind of a companion to yesterday’s Blacks Beach painting, both scenes looking out to sea, and painted at the same time.
When I go to Blacks Beach, I try to do several paintings, since it’s at the bottom of these wonderful soaring cliffs and the stairs down to it are so killer. It’s a great place to paint, with every kind of light effect imaginable from the ethereal to the very stark.
Blacks Beach Painting- For Sale
I love the way the sky reflects in wave-wet sand.
Macarons painting- For Sale.
I love macarons, and I have finally learned how to make them at home. So far, I have had some odd results in terms of shape but they were still very tasty. I’ve tackled raspberry and pineapple-chocolate.
The ones in this painting were store bought at a great Korean bakery here in San Diego called Big Joy. I think the flavors were pistachio, strawberry, and cappuccino.
This one went out as a Christmas present, so I think it’s safe to post it now!
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I like this painting and I’m glad it found a home. This place is so familiar to me that I feel I could have painted this from memory (though I didn’t). It’s a winding gravel and mud road in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it smells of farm and cold, wet wind and it feels like frozen ears under a bike helmet in the winter. By now, the leaves will have changed and fallen, and the palette turned more to blue, but it’s just as pretty and tranquil a spot, and I like remembering it now from across the country in this perfect, sunny climate.
And now, time to put the finishing touches on Christmas dinner before everyone gets here. This year, we’re having Korean spareribs and a local wine from Temecula. Happy Holidays!
The time has come to put away the paintbrushes, get the cat into her Christmas outfit, and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays!
Hillcrest plein air- for sale
I love urban views. Here we are looking to the west over Hillcrest, towards Mission Hills.
This being San Diego in December, I did get chilly painting this in my shorts and running shoes, while listening to Christmas carols floating up from the plaza below.
Sunset Cliffs painting – for sale
Plein air painting as a storm blew in off the Pacific near sunset.
At Sunset Cliffs, in Ocean Beach.
Autumn Leaves Landscape Painting – For Sale
I painted these beautiful, blazing yellow leaves last week, in mid-December.
It was a mild afternoon along the San Diego River.
Orange Still Life Painting – For Sale
This painting has a companion clementine still life painting that I posted a couple of days ago. Often I do still lifes on rainy days, and when wet weather lasts for a week, I do several paintings of the same objects.
The colors in the two paintings aren’t identical, but they are similar, and I like the way the two pieces look together.
