The AirBNB in Venice. It was pretty nice.
Tag Archives: painting
Dog Beach, OB
Painted on location on the dog beach. I will admit the area smelled like urine, as well as sunscreen.
May Gray, Santa Barbara
![Santa Barbara Beach Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/may_sbagray1-500x378.jpg)
East Beach.
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![Santa Barbara Painting Nocturne Shoreline Park](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oct_sba_dawn-50x50.jpg)
Santa Barbara Nocturne
![Santa Barbara Painting Nocturne Shoreline Park](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oct_sba_dawn.jpg)
The park above Leadbetter Beach in beautiful Santa Barbara, just before dawn. I’d gone to paint the beach and spent some time working here while the tide went out a little. What that entails is a headlamp, a clip on light on my painting surface, a Clif Bar and one of those cans of Starbucks espresso. The preliminary studies for this painting are from last winter.
Often we go on family vacations to Santa Barbara, so I try to fit in painting around the edges. This is one of those paintings. for sale
![Cat Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/july_cat-50x50.jpg)
Victorian Cat
![Cat Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/july_cat.jpg)
Snoozin’ – for sale
This cat lives around the corner. He comes and torments/ courts my cat, Miss Marmalade, through the windows at night. It fills her with rage, which she takes out on me.
![La Jolla Beach Painting San Diego](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/july_lajolla31-50x50.jpg)
La Jolla Beach Painting
![La Jolla Beach Painting San Diego](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/july_lajolla31.jpg)
Painted on location in La Jolla. for sale
![La Jolla Beach Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/july_lajolla-50x50.jpg)
La Jolla Beach Painting
![La Jolla Beach Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/july_lajolla.jpg)
Painted on a soft gray morning in La Jolla. for sale
![San Diego Beach Painting Cabrillo](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/julycabrillo2-50x50.jpg)
Gray Cabrillo Surf
![San Diego Beach Painting Cabrillo](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/julycabrillo2.jpg)
Painted on location in Cabrillo, on Point Loma. for sale
Went to Cabrillo today to paint with my friend Margaret.
This composition is weird. I did not know if this would work, and I’m not 100% sure it does work. But it is what it is. I think as artists we need to try to step outside what is comfortable and push the ‘rules’ or even break all of them while staying inside a particular tradition.
Here’s mine:
Here’s hers:
We also learned, from eavesdropping on tourists, that people in Spain are more dedicated about recycling than people in Texas. It’s only hearsay though, so don’t quote me on it.
![San Diego Landscape Painting Balboa Park](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/may_bpark-50x50.jpg)
Balboa Park Landscape Painting San Diego
![San Diego Landscape Painting Balboa Park](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/may_bpark.jpg)
One more from Balboa Park. for sale
One more day of heat + fires in the suburbs. The weatherpeople on TV say the weather’s cooling with a shift to a wind off the ocean, which should help the firefighters.
![San Diego Nocturne Barrio Logan Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sherman_night-50x50.jpg)
Sherman Heights Nocturne, San Diego
![San Diego Nocturne Barrio Logan Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sherman_night.jpg)
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Around the corner from my house, in my “Insomnia and Gentrification” series of very local night paintings.
![Santa Ynez Valley Landscape Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/april_sbamtns-50x50.jpg)
Santa Ynez Valley Landscape Painting
![Santa Ynez Valley Landscape Painting](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/april_sbamtns.jpg)
From my most recent painting trip to Santa Barbara. for sale
![Point Loma Landscape Painting San Diego](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/april_cabrillo5-50x50.jpg)
Point Loma Seascape
![Point Loma Landscape Painting San Diego](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/april_cabrillo5.jpg)
Painted on location at Cabrillo on a blustery day – the day after a rainstorm. for sale
![North Park Painting San Diego Cityscape](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mar_northpark-50x50.jpg)
North Park San Diego Painting
![North Park Painting San Diego Cityscape](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mar_northpark.jpg)
Overlooking North Park. Painted on location off Georgia Street on a wet day. for sale
![Hillcrest Painting San Diego Landscape](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mar_hillcrest2-50x50.jpg)
Bougainvillea in Hillcrest, San Diego
![Hillcrest Painting San Diego Landscape](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mar_hillcrest2.jpg)
Bougainvillea climbing on a 1920s house in Hillcrest. for sale
![South Park San Diego Landscape Painting Urban](https://www.themovingcastle.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/feb_southpark-50x50.jpg)