Painted on location in PB.
Tag Archives: 5 x 7 inches
Coronado Beach Plein Air
Heat wave in San Diego. When I started this yesterday it was very clear and hot, with strong gusty furnace like winds.
I didn’t quite finish, so I decided to go back this morning. The light, though, was very different today. Sort of like the apocalypse, with a brown haze over the sea horizon (which lifted eventually as it usually does) and a strange murky quality to the air.
Sometimes you have to choose between the act of copying what you see- that’s what Monet was generally trying to do, as accurately as possible – vs poetic license with your color. It would have been easy enough to edit the color to match a brighter, prettier day, but I decided to tread the path of angels and painted it over with today’s overcast light effects.
Lifeguard Tower, Ocean Beach
Painted on location on the Dog Beach.
Tijuana Street
Hot afternoon, TJ.
Termite Tent, North Park
Before moving to San Diego, I don’t think I’d seen any buildings in fumigation tents. Like trolley and telephone wires crossing the sky, dumpsters in alleys, and trash cans lined up like soldiers for inspection, I think they add a really exciting decorative element to the urban landscape.
This is an older piece, probably from 2013. for sale
Overcast, Laguna Canyon
Gray morning in Laguna.
Beer in Mexico
It was a party.
Bougainvillea Near Grandma’s Tofu
Good restaurant. Nice fences nearby. What more can I say?
Roman Winery, Barcelona
The ruins of a Roman winery under the Plaça del Rei in Barcelona, still stained red from the wine. for sale
I painted this last year in Barcelona.
Coronado Beach Painting
A nice, relaxing morning painting at the beach.
Surf at Cabrillo
Painted down in the surf at Cabrillo. for sale
I painted this last year in Cabrillo. It was an absolutely perfect day.
Dog Beach, OB
Painted on location on the dog beach. We got some rain recently- rare around here, and for once the area did not smell like urine.
Morning in Coronado
Painted a few days ago at the beach.
Night on the Prado
Night in San Diego. for sale
The Prado seen from the Cabrillo Bridge. This piece is on display at the historic Marston House in San Diego as part of Art of the Park, an exhibition of paintings of Balboa Park dating from the 1915 Panama-California Exposition to today.
Idaho Sketch
Here’s one from when I went to visit my aunt in Boise. I debated whether I should post this painting because it’s right on the edge of work I think is complete enough, vs work that is only a study. But I like it like this.