Greetings,Sometimes I do not paint landscapes. Sometimes I experiment with new ideas. This is the creative doodling that shows us what we can achieve when we try something new. This is an experiment in making the dots look even more like tiles and using colors that would elevate certain partsContinue Reading
Sometimes I do not paint from a picture or a scene that is in front of me. I want to try out a new technique or I have an idea. Blue building and sky on abstract landscape These were created in 2025 with watercolor crayons .Continue 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
The bones of this painting I did en plein air at Lake Balboa in Encino, California. I painted with a new plein air group and we had some ‘incidents’ from the pigeons in the trees. I always carry heavy duty towels and pink brush cleaner for times like those. IContinue Reading
Painting today at Olive Park in Burbank. This is an old venue but a new subject. I do not know what they use this building for.Continue Reading
This is a painting I did at Olive Park. I did the first layer en plein air and finished it at home in my current pointillistic style. I realized I had not posted it but completed it a few weeks ago. There is not enough variation in the underpainting, IContinue Reading
I created the original painting at Olive Park in the afternoon. As I was finishing it up, it began to look more like a nighttime portrait so I continued with that theme.Continue Reading
I was painting yesterday en plein air at Robert Gross Park and while leaving I was gifted this drawing of me painting by a young woman artist who was sketching at the park! Thank you!Continue Reading
I began this painting en plein air for the first layer and then later put in the dot layer. I think for the initial layers I will stick with warm or cool colors and then go with the opposite for the dots. This painting is a mixture and it isContinue Reading
This is a painting that may stand as a quick Study of it’s subject or I may work on it more to some sort of completion point. I did it in a hurry and thought I would share.Continue Reading