Southern California plein air, abstract, impressionist, cloisonnist painter and artist.
The Americana 2022, Final version.The underpainting is a plein air cloisonnist illustrative style done with yellow and the top layer is a pointillist dot style done in blue (mostly) to achieve what I call “Closed Impressionism”Continue Reading
It was the first meetup of the year for our painting group at the Americana at Brand, an upscale mall/apartment complex in Glendale, California. It was a very sunny and warm day and they were taking down the Christmas decorations but still piping in Christmas music. This is the firstContinue Reading
I spent this beautiful sunny day painting en plein air at Ernest E. Krebs Regional Park in Los Angeles. It is a hidden jem of a park whose main feature is a hill that has a lake at the top surrounded by trees. I painted an illustrative base layer thatContinue Reading
“Remix Trees” 2021This painting was done en plein air and then I put a layer of pallette knife paint over it. I covered up the bright underpainting in the process which made the painting dull. I decided to bring the bright paint back by giving it my “dot treatment.” IContinue Reading
I started this painting en plein air at a park. I used many of the original lines to turn it into an otherworldly garden with orange hedges and purple plants. The painting will be hung in my home.Continue Reading
I finished my painting of an icon of the studios in Burbank, California – the Warner Brothers water Tower. It is on sale today for a couple more hours in Toluca Lake at the holiday open house.Continue Reading
Next Saturday December 4, 2021, join me and a bunch of local artisans in Toluca Lake for their Holiday Open House! We will be selling our wares along Riverside Drive. This time I have shirts AND art to sell so I hope there is a good turnout. It looks likeContinue Reading
This is the second version of my plein air painting of the mission. The first one had an unfortunate accident. I decided to try again.Continue Reading
I finally got a chance to take a picture of this in some good light. I painted this en plein air while selling art at the Harvest Festival in Toluca Lake a few weeks ago. It is a hybrid of my technique with black outlines and dots except the linesContinue Reading
