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San Diego Skyline Painting

San Diego Skyline

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

San Diego Sunset

Sunset in San Diego

San Diego Sunset

Sunset in Hillcrest – For Sale

The coastal clouds rolled in at nightfall and turned pink with the city lights. This is from a series of plein air night paintings I did last year. Despite the winter chill (low 60s, brr!), it’s easy to get into night paintings this time of year, when it’s just about fully dark around 5.

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!