This is the view from my studio window. The original part of my house- where the studio is located- was built in 1905.
Tag Archives: palm tree
Giant Cactus and Fence, San Diego Watercolor
Painted over breakfast in my backyard, looking over the neighbor’s fence at their giant cactus that looks to be eating the house.
North Park Alley, San Diego
Bougainvillea in a North Park alley, in San Diego.
San Diego Patio Watercolor
The latest in my morning coffee watercolor series- this one painted on my patio at home.
Santa Fe Depot San Diego Watercolor Painting
East Beach Santa Barbara
The bright, bright bleaching light of early afternoon.
Train Tracks in Santa Barbara, California
Shadows and light crisscross on the train tracks in Santa Barbara.
Mission Beach, San Diego
The place where Mission Bay flows into the Pacific Ocean, in Mission Beach.
University Heights, San Diego
Painted from a drawing on the tables outside Lestat’s on Park coffee shop in University Heights.
Hillcrest San Diego Pencil Drawing- of the Pinkberry
I drew this over breakfast this AM on the patio tables at Einstein’s Bagels in Hillcrest. This is the Pinkberry. Halfway through the drawing someone came and parked a gigantic pickup truck right in front of me. I had to keep standing up and peering over its enormity to finish the drawing.
I’d intended to do a watercolor painting this morning, but the cap had come off my pen inside my bag and it dried out. And though the art store is just across the street, it stubbornly did not open in time to buy a new pen. So I worked in graphite.
Gas Station in Kensington, San Diego
A gas station in Kensington, San Diego, California.
This is really part of my Sunday Coffee series of paintings, which I’ve been painting over breakfast at various cafes around the city. But the original in this case is watercolor.
Church in Golden Hill, San Diego
A plein air painting of a church- I think maybe a church converted to apartments, but I’m not sure- in Golden Hill, San Diego.
The church is Art Deco, I believe is the correct architectural period, but this painting session got shortened and I left out most of those deco details. It got fiercely hot on the hill on this January day, and even despite the UV umbrella, the UV hat, the special UV blocking shirt, I just felt like I was frying in my skin. My freckled, European skin. So I bailed! No deco for you.
Mission Hills Street, San Diego
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.
Sunrise on Cypress
A rare clear morning. So close to the ocean we usually have fog, or at least that’s my impression since let’s face it, I’m not usually up this early.
This is a painting of my street.
Not up quite this early today to meet other painters in the California Art Club on the beach at Coronado, right by the Hotel Del.
I wanted to do a painting of the hotel also, but was running late for a parade in North Park!
I enjoyed the samba dancers: