Looking out the window over the heads of the lunch crowd on State Street in Santa Barbara. buy now
State Street, Santa Barbara
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Hotel del Coronado Watercolor
the Hotel Del- buy now
Painted this morning on a bench in Coronado.
San Francisco Painting, Mission
Mission Morning – for sale
Painted over breakfast in the Mission. With gray fog shrouding the skies overhead, everything was bleached and pale.
We agreed this building was a polluted seafoam color, and that it would be much better in the painting to change it to a nice, clean seafoam color.
North Park Alley, San Diego
North Park – buy now
Bougainvillea in a North Park alley, in San Diego.
Balboa Park Painting, San Diego
From Cabrillo Bridge – for sale
The San Diego Museum of Man and California Tower seen from the Cabrillo Bridge- beautiful historic architecture in Balboa Park.
Balboa Park Baroque Building Painting
Overcast morning in the park- for sale
Gray skies over the old buildings in Balboa Park, San Diego.
Golden Hill, San Diego Watercolor
Golden Hill Watercolor – buy now
Painted over morning coffee out the window of Starbucks in Golden Hill. Eventually I moved out onto the patio, since it was a beautiful February morning.
Victorian Building in Little Italy
Victorian Building in Little Italy – For Sale
I think this building’s being torn down for a parking lot and eventually a high rise in Little Italy.
The Palms- Hillcrest 60s Building
The Palm, San Diego Painting- For Sale
I think this apartment building in Hillcrest/U Heights is probably from the 60s, since Modern design from that decade was more delicate. Whenever it’s from, it’s a cool place.
Decayed Modernism is so prevalent in southern California. Modernist architecture, urban planning, and design had mostly utopian ideals, trying to make people’s lives better through design. Did it work? I’m not sure, and there’s something poignant about the irony of those high ideals contrasted with buildings in disrepair.