The AirBNB in Venice. It was pretty nice.
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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
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East Beach.
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Santa Barbara Nocturne
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
Victorian Cat
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
Painted on location in La Jolla. for sale
La Jolla Beach Painting
Painted on a soft gray morning in La Jolla. for sale
Gray Cabrillo Surf
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.
Balboa Park Landscape Painting San Diego
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.
Sherman Heights Nocturne, San Diego
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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
From my most recent painting trip to Santa Barbara. for sale
Point Loma Seascape
Painted on location at Cabrillo on a blustery day – the day after a rainstorm. for sale
North Park San Diego Painting
Overlooking North Park. Painted on location off Georgia Street on a wet day. for sale
Bougainvillea in Hillcrest, San Diego
Bougainvillea climbing on a 1920s house in Hillcrest. for sale
San Diego Alley Landscape Painting
A peaceful alley on Trash Day in South Park, San Diego. I like Trash Day, well I like it every two weeks when they collect recycling, because I think the blue recycling bins are pretty.