Orange Prius Twins, South Park San Diego

Orange House, Orange Priuses South Park San Diego

for sale

This painting happened sort of by accident but it is also staged. Let me explain. I was painting in Balboa Park, a painting of some trees. And I drove home a different way than usual , through South Park.

I saw this orange house and thought, what a great orange house. Then I saw the orange Prius parked in front of the orange house and I thought, Ha! So then I parked MY orange Prius up the hill behind and painted this.

Bi Rite Bi-Rite San Francisco Mission Dolores St

Bi-Rite, Mission, San Francisco

Bi Rite Bi-Rite San Francisco Mission Dolores St

We picked up lunch here at the Bi-Rite on the way to the Legion of Honor. buy now

Julia asked the worker- sandwich chef?- what would travel the best. He had a beard and San Francisco pallor and gave the question very serious consideration before offering a measured response. He was obviously an expert (albeit in an obscure subject), and I liked how seriously he treated his sandwich creations, which really were excellent- perfect rustic baguette, salty prosciutto, creamy fresh mozzarella and basil or arugula or something.

Also I’d like to mention that the guards at the Legion of Honor did not care that we carried an entire box of wine into the museum. Later in the day after much time on buses and through different foggy microclimates, the guards at the De Young also did not care that we brought half a box of wine into the museum. Only in San Francisco, probably, god bless them.

A pretty great day.

California Industrial Landscape Painting

Industrial Landscape Painting

California Industrial Landscape Painting

On the fringes of Little Italy- for sale

Little Italy in San Diego is a strange combination of things. There are excellent Italian restaurants and people at least pretending to be Italian. There are gleaming high rises and also tired old buildings like this one, which is abandoned and probably waiting to be turned into a gastropub or craft brewery.

Fruit and Vegetable Garage Horton Plaza Gaslamp San Diego

Fruit and Vegetable Garage, San Diego

Fruit and Vegetable Garage Horton Plaza Gaslamp San Diego

A strange parking garage in downtown San Diego. for sale

Horton Plaza is pretty strange: five or six stories of open-air arcades and colonnades and zigzagging staircases, Gap stores and magnet schools, as postmodern as you could imagine and painted in the brightest oranges and pinks. This is the even stranger parking garage for Horton Plaza- The Fruit and Vegetable Garage. The garage is like something out of Escher, mazelike and disorienting and full of these colorful signs.