A hot morning on the trails above Crystal Cove.
Tag Archives: oil
Santa Ynez Farm Landscape Painting
Looking down from high hills over farms and fields below, in the Santa Ynez Valley near Santa Barbara.
This painting, well the composition anyway, was inspired by a great painting I saw online, from a similarly high vantage point. Unfortunately, I misplaced the name of that artist- so whoever you were, thank you very much.
Miniature Eggplant Still Life Painting
So miniature eggplants are good for cooking. They’re not bitter, and you don’t have to soak them in salt water. This is also true of Japanese eggplants, by the way.
Food lesson over!
They are also fun to paint.
Cadbury Mini Eggs Easter Candy Painting
My favorite Easter candy- Cadbury Mini Eggs. I already have a bag in the candy drawer. Along with multiple boxes of Girl Scout Cookies!
Lake Murray Plein Air Landscape
This plein air landscape is from last Sunday’s California Art Club get-together at Lake Murray in San Diego. I got an early start and was working by 7:30, though the paint out started at 9. As usual, I got lost and the rest of the group materialized on the spit of land I was painting, instead of the one I was standing on.
Virginia Farm in Autumn
I used to bike along this path all the time, past cows and barns and through the woods, in Blacksburg, Virginia.
San Francisco Victorian Houses
Gentle gray light on brightly painted Victorians in San Francisco.
Such a beautiful city.
Grapes For New Years
A Spanish new year’s tradition.
Coronado Palms
Two palms in front of a Streamline Moderne garage on Coronado.
Plum Still Life Painting
The plums were not ripe, so I sequestered them in the painting studio. I love all the delicate purples and lavenders in the bloom on plums.
East County Autumn
I love the tawny grass of autumn in San Diego. A major rainstorm today, everything will turn soft green soon as a new year begins.
French Macaron Still Life Painting
Last year I went into a time of obsession with macarons, and I sampled as many as I could. I bought this chocolate one on a trip to Chicago.
Coronado Beach Painting, San Diego
Pink Victorian House in U Heights
This pink Italianate Victorian is, for me, the definition of real estate envy. I love the house and it’s in a great neighborhood- University Heights.
I really, really love these old houses. If I had the time, I’d become a realtor!
Gladiolus Flowers Painting
Pink gladioli.