Lake Murray – buy now
I painted this sitting on a rock at Lake Murray, near SDSU.
I’ve been working in watercolor more lately, mostly because I cut my pinky finger, and it’s such a hassle trying to keep oil paint from getting in the cut and if I wear a bandaid, my finger doesn’t bend. So there you go, watercolor.
The eucalpytus grove down the street, on the edge of Balboa Park.
Saturday, please join me at North Park Festival of Arts!
I’ll be in booth J-24 in the Juried Artists area.
May 18, 2013
North Park Festival of Arts, North Park, San Diego
Booth J-24
On University Ave near Iowa St.
Saturday May 18
11-6.
Mission Trails Park For Sale
Painted on location one sunny afternoon in Mission Trails. I want to say it was late January, so the live oaks were green but the – I think they are Aspens, but maybe that’s not right- were golden.
Hillcrest Watercolor- buy now
Painted over breakfast on an overcast Sunday in Hillcrest- at Whole Foods Market.
Eucalyptus in Balboa Park- for sale
A grey day.
I started this painting, and got to here when it started raining. Normally, I’d come back another day to finish, but then I decided I loved it as-is.
And I thought, this is probably one of those where you put one more brush stroke on it and it doesn’t work anymore.
Winter in Blacksburg – For Sale
Virginia is in the South, and even the mountains don’t get much snow. Especially in Blacksburg, home to Virginia Tech, winters are cold though, windy and often wet. This is a painting of a day like that.
Of course, actually at this moment a major winter storm is bearing down on Virginia- but I won’t be there to experience the snow.
Golden Hill Watercolor – buy now
Painted over morning coffee out the window of Starbucks in Golden Hill. Eventually I moved out onto the patio, since it was a beautiful February morning.
Eucalyptus at Twilight- buy now
This was kind of a magical sunset, because first the trees went blue in the gathering night, with everything backlit by the setting sun at the top of the hill.
Lake Murray, San Diego- Buy Now
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.
Along the bike path in Blacksburg – for sale
I used to bike along this path all the time, past cows and barns and through the woods, in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Virginia Woods Painting- For Sale
Here’s another painting of the bike path I used to ride to and from work, which wound through farms and forests and along an old railroad cutting through rock. It’s a nice ride if you’re in the Blacksburg area.
I started this painting either during or shortly after getting back from our trip to Blacksburg last autumn.
Virginia Tech farm landscape painting, Blacksburg, Virginia- For Sale
I biked through this farm to my job at Virginia Tech many times over the four years I worked on the campus. On this cloudy day, the cows weren’t out.
Morning light in Florida Canyon. You just have a few minutes when the sun comes through the fog like this, before the fog burns off.
California Light, San Diego Landscape Painting
Morning light in Balboa Park, in San Diego, California.
Santa Ynez Valley Sunset Landscape Painting
Sunset in the hills over Santa Barbara, California.
