Painted on the beach in Coronado.
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Evening, Coronado
It’s always tough painting into the setting sun, but I gave it a shot. Painted on the beach in Coronado.
I’m trying out my new ultra lightweight easel setup. This weighs less than 3 lbs total, including the somewhat rickety $8 tripod. I like to travel light- this is going to be great for trips.
Coronado Beach Plein Air
Painted on the beach in Coronado last week, before I left San Diego for a few days in Las Vegas. Just got around to photographing it today.
I’ve been playing around lately with a more conventional approach to Impressionism. In this piece, Pissarro’s ‘petite tache’ and palette and what all. My approach to painting doesn’t tend to come from that place- I got here via a winding path out of modernist abstraction that eventually led to being on a street corner with a paint box. So it’s fun to tinker with the style, so familiar from childhood visits to the National Gallery of Art in DC. We’ll see if it becomes a thing.
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.
Morning in Coronado
Coronado Beach Painting
Sunset, Coronado.
Coronado Plein Air
![Coronado Plein Air Beach Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/may_coronado_2015-500x354.jpg)
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Painted on location in Coronado, looking at Imperial Beach and Mexico beyond.
Sailboats, San Diego Bay
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Looking towards Mexico.
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Sailboat, Coronado
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Painted on location this morning in Coronado. Buy Now
10th Avenue Cargo Terminal
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Painted on location across the San Diego Bay. Buy Now
Smog Over Downtown
Painted on location on Coronado. One of those hot, still mornings just before a Santa Ana wind started.
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Coronado Beach Painting
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Painted on the beach at sundown. Around this time I got yellow paint on everything.
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Sunset, Coronado
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A quick sketch on the beach at sundown.
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Troop Ships off Coronado
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Painted on location on the beach in Coronado.
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Coronado Plein Air
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Painted on location on Coronado.
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