Hillcrest- buy now
From last year, I think. These garages were down the hill from my old place, and I love the way they slump.
Weary Garages, San Diego
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Hillcrest, 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.
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:
North Park from Hillcrest
Hillcrest
North Park
University Heights
Morning Alley, Hillcrest
Hillcrest Alley, San Diego Art Painting
Morning in a Hillcrest alley. Abandoned tower PC in the dry, crackly weeds.
North Park Deco Starbucks
North Park San Diego Painting
A corner in North Park, where a restored Deco- era movie theatre now also includes this Starbucks and a bar. This is University Ave and… Grim? 30th? Ray Street? This is a partial plein-air, partial studio piece.
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.
Industrial Landscape 2
Industrial Landscape, San Diego
A midcentury industrial building off Convoy in San Diego. I love this area with its acres of asphalt and modern architecture.
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!
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.
Painting of USD
Painting of University of San Diego
The University of San Diego on its hilltop, seen from across Mission Valley in… Pioneer Park? I think that’s the name.
I painted this on Labor Day in a perfect ocean breeze.
Sometimes I touch up plein air works in the studio afterwards, but this time I liked the painting the way it is.
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.
