San Elijo Lagoon Painting – For Sale
An open air painting of the tidal marshes at the San Elijo Lagoon. It’s a really great place.
Sunshine at the San Elijo Lagoon
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Monarch Beach Twilight
The last painting of the evening, at Monarch Beach in Dana Point.
Del Mar Beach Painting
Del Mar Beach Painting- Buy Now
The last painting of the afternoon, on the bluffs at the southern end of Del Mar, with the beach down the cliffs below.
Sailboats off Dana Point
Dana Point Sailboats Painting- For Sale
I loved the crowd of sailboats around Dana Point, and wished I was in one of them!
A view from the pier in beautiful San Clemente.
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Art Reception: Friday January 18 from 6-8 PM
Please join us for wine and refreshments at the opening of my show, “Places Here,” at the Lyceum Gallery in downtown San Diego. The show will feature 28 urban landscape paintings of San Diego. (More info and directions)
San Diego Skyline in Watercolor
San Diego Skyline from Spanish Landing Park- For Sale
A small plein air watercolor of the San Diego skyline seen behind the Harbor Island Marina.
I’ve mostly posted oil paintings here, and I continue to paint in oil every day. But I’m eager for the freedom of pen and ink, highlighted with watercolor, so I’m increasingly turning to watercolor for quick studies. Normally I use pastel for those, but I feel like a change. So watercolor it is! I thought you might like to see some of them.
I painted this yesterday- a perfect sunny day- over lunch at Spanish Landing Park.
What was the lunch? Pesto pasta.
Ocean Beach Painting
Ocean Beach Painting- For Sale
This plein air painting is looking at Ocean Beach from across the channel in Mission Beach.
From 12/31- officially my last painting of 2012!
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“Places Here,” a show of my urban landscapes, will open January 18 at the Lyceum Gallery in downtown San Diego.
Blacks Beach Painting 2
Blacks Beach Painting, San Diego
This is kind of a companion to yesterday’s Blacks Beach painting, both scenes looking out to sea, and painted at the same time.
When I go to Blacks Beach, I try to do several paintings, since it’s at the bottom of these wonderful soaring cliffs and the stairs down to it are so killer. It’s a great place to paint, with every kind of light effect imaginable from the ethereal to the very stark.
Del Mar Beach Painting
Del Mar Beach Painting – for sale
A plein air piece from the bluffs overlooking Torrey Pines Beach.
(Spun the easel around for the photo, I was actually painting the opposite view.)
Sailboats on San Diego Bay
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.
Waves on the Rocks, Cabrillo
San Diego Seascape Painting- For Sale
Waves crashing on the rocks on Cabrillo point. I’d planned to touch up this plein air painting in the studio, but after living with the painting for a while, decided to leave it as-is. Something about the less polished state appeals to me.
San Diego Beach Cliffs
San Diego Seascape Painting
With this painting, I was aiming for what Monet did with the cliffs at Etretat:
He did many paintings there, and I’m going to try again with this one at a lower elevation, which I hope will give the cliffs the sense of presence they have in real life.
San Diego Sea Cliffs Plein Air
Santa Barbara Beach Morning
Santa Barbara Beach Landscape Painting – For Sale
A cool morning on the beach in Santa Barbara.
Point Loma Sea Cliffs
San Diego Seascape Painting- Buy Now
Steep cliffs above the gently rolling surf in the ecological preserve on Point Loma in San Diego. This beautiful place is full of native San Diego species of plants and animals.
Santa Barbara Beach Sunset
Santa Barbara, California Beach Painting – Buy now
A rosy dusk on the beach in Santa Barbara, with sailboats softly lit golden by the setting sun.
Ocean Beach Pier Painting
The surf beneath the pier in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California.
Ocean Beach Pier Painting is for sale.