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Hillcrest Watercolor Painting

Hillcrest Cityscape Watercolor

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Hillcrest Watercolor Painting

Hillcrest Watercolor: For Sale.

I love this mid century building. I’d guess it’s from the late 1950s, but it could be the 60s. It used to be a Chicken and Waffles restaurant, which was a lot of fun. Painted from across the street at breakfast.

It’s been a while since I’ve worked in pen and ink, highlighted with watercolor, and getting back into this medium feels wonderful and free.

Hillcrest Watercolor Painting

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Art Reception: Friday January 18 from 6-8 PM
We’d love to see you at the opening reception for my show, “Places Here,” at the Lyceum Gallery in downtown San Diego. Please join us for wine, refreshments, and 28 urban landscape paintings of San Diego. (More info and directions)

San Diego House Portrait

San Diego Craftsman House Painting

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San Diego House Portrait

Craftsman House on Florida Ave

I love this old, beautifully restored Craftsman. It’s on Florida Ave, a couple of streets away from my house.

This painting is part of my upcoming show at the Lyceum Gallery, opening Saturday, January 12th.

Reception Friday, January 18 from 6-8 PM

We’ll have a reception with wine and refreshments Friday, January 18 from 6-8 PM, at the Lyceum at 79 Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego. (Click here for more info and driving directions). If you are in San Diego, I’d love to see you!

Night Fog in Hillcrest, San Diego Art

Night Fog on New Year’s Eve

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Night Fog in Hillcrest, San Diego Art

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.

Hillcrest Panorama Painting San Diego

Hillcrest Panorama, San Diego Painting

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Hillcrest Panorama Painting San Diego

Hillcrest plein air- for sale

I love urban views. Here we are looking to the west over Hillcrest, towards Mission Hills.

Painting in Hillcrest

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.

San Diego Urban Painting

Mission Hills Street, San Diego

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San Diego Urban Painting

House in Mission Hills – For Sale

I love the old houses in Mission Hills, and I was especially captivated by the shapes and colors of this one, with its rooms over the garage and Airstream trailer parked out front.

Sunrise in San Diego Painting

Sunrise on Cypress

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Sunrise in San Diego Painting

Sunrise on Cypress Avenue in San Diego – For Sale

A rare clear morning. So close to the ocean we usually have fog, or at least that’s my impression since let’s face it, I’m not usually up this early.

This is a painting of my street.

Not up quite this early today to meet other painters in the California Art Club on the beach at Coronado, right by the Hotel Del.

Coronado Beach Painting

I wanted to do a painting of the hotel also, but was running late for a parade in North Park!

I enjoyed the samba dancers:

Samba Dancers

San Diego Skyline Painting

San Diego Skyline

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San Diego Skyline Painting

Painting of Downtown San Diego- For Sale

Painted from life in Golden Hill, overlooking the crisscrossing freeways and towers of downtown.

I like to get out of the studio and paint the city of San Diego and the places I travel to.

San Diego Skyline Painting

San Diego Skyline Painting- from Golden Hill

U-Heights Nocturne

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U Heights Nocturne

This is from a series of night and twilight paintings I did in Hillcrest and University Heights earlier in the year. This vacant lot once was home to a BevMo, which burned down. There’s a construction sign with an elevation drawing of a new building, so I guess something new is coming soon in this spot.

Sold, but here’s a link to other San Diego paintings in my Etsy shop.

Fog in the City, San Diego

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San Diego Fog Palm Painting

Fog in the City- For Sale

A scene of fog out the front window.

I started this 4×4 painting last winter, but it got messed up and didn’t dry fast enough, so I did another version in purple.

The 4×4 went into a stack of unfinished work. I found it the the other day and it seemed like a fun project to finish it.

Hillcrest, San Diego Plein Air

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Hillcrest Painting San Diego Plein Air

Hillcrest Painting San Diego Plein Air – For sale

Morning light on the corner of Robinson and Park Blvd in San Diego. A short walk from my house in Hillcrest.

I like this corner because of the way the buildings pile up on the hill behind the art deco building in front. I like painting steep areas.

Hillcrest plein air

San Francisco’s vertigo- inducing streets are more famous- but San Diego’s got its fair share of knee-killing ascents. Painting the city on the hills is a new project of mine.

Here are a few of my favorites:

San Diego California
North Park from Hillcrest

San Diego Paintings
Hillcrest

San Diego California Landscape Painting
North Park

Hillcrest, San Diego, Urban Street Painting
University Heights