San Diego Fog Painting – For Sale
A dense fog on my street in Hillcrest.
San Diego Fog Palms
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2 Clementines 2
Orange Still Life Painting – For Sale
This painting has a companion clementine still life painting that I posted a couple of days ago. Often I do still lifes on rainy days, and when wet weather lasts for a week, I do several paintings of the same objects.
The colors in the two paintings aren’t identical, but they are similar, and I like the way the two pieces look together.
Red Velvet Cupcake Still Life
Cupcake Still Life Painting – For Sale
I painted this one a while back. It was hard to paint this cupcake, because the entire time I wanted to eat it.
Plum Still Life Painting
Plum Still Life – Buy Now
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
East County Landscape- For Sale
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.
Mission Hills Street, San Diego
House in Mission Hills – For Sale
I love the old houses in Mission Hills, and I was especially captivated by the shapes and colors of this one, with its rooms over the garage and Airstream trailer parked out front.
Golden Grass Landscape, San Diego
Tecolote Canyon Landscape Painting- For Sale
Golden dry grass in Tecolote Canyon. Just down the hill from the University of San Diego, this is a great spot to paint in the cool breeze off Mission Bay.
Palms on the Hill
Mission Bay Painting, San Diego – For Sale
I’d gone down there to paint the water, but I liked the way these palm trees stuck up over the curve of the grassy hill.
Pistachio French Macaron
Macarons de Paris- For Sale
French Macarons… one of my favorite desserts. I’d say pistachio- like this one- is the best flavor, but it’s so hard to choose!
The macaron came from Big Joy Bakery in San Diego.
3 Clementines- Fruit Painting
Clementine Oranges Still Life Painting – For Sale
When I lived in Spain during junior year of college, my host family had a cousin with an orchard that grew clementines- “mandarinas.” He brought baskets and baskets of them to the house. We ate them for months.
Sunset in San Diego
Sunset in Hillcrest – For Sale
The coastal clouds rolled in at nightfall and turned pink with the city lights. This is from a series of plein air night paintings I did last year. Despite the winter chill (low 60s, brr!), it’s easy to get into night paintings this time of year, when it’s just about fully dark around 5.
Tomatoes and Bread
Tomato and Bread Still Life Painting- For Sale
My favorite kind of still life is the pantry scene, of humble food objects in a peaceful setting. I think when those paintings are successful, they turn into a type of poem about being in that moment, kind of a Zen thing. Yet they preserve that moment, and make it timeless.
When people talk about being right brained, and when they talk about meditation, that’s what I think they mean, finding that calm, golden feeling.
The bread here is home made by the way- a home made ciabatta.
Twilight Palms
Sunset in San Diego – for sale
Sunset in University Heights. The Christmas trees just went up for sale in the vacant lot to the left of the painting.
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.
Blacks Beach Bluffs
Blacks Beach Painting San Diego- for sale
Rolling surf seascape at Black’s Beach along the La Jolla, California coast. I love this beautiful area of the coast with its dramatic cliffs, wide beaches and hazy light; my knees love the stairs down to Blacks Beach somewhat less.