Painting with a group today at Ernest E Debs regional park with the wildlife. Some of them:Turtles, bass,bluegill, Juncos, blue heron, squirrel. It’s a hidden oasis in the middle of LA.Continue Reading
Yesterday there was quite a crowd of people at Descanso Botanical Gardens in La Canada/Flintridge, California. It was understandable because the roses and bearded irises were in full bloom. I walked around the whole garden, through the forest of oak and Camellia, around the lakes and ferns, and finally intoContinue Reading
Today my painting group chose to paint at the Travel Town train museum and park in Griffith Park, California. This location has many decommissioned trains that are on display outside in a park. There are passenger cars to have parties in and many of the trains can be climbed into.Continue Reading
It was a very windy day in West Hills, California at Orcutt Ranch, and my easel almost blew over a couple times. Not only that, my acrylic paints were drying on my palette nearly as fast as I could use them. I had to keep spraying them with my sprayContinue Reading
This is a quick landscape painting I did last weekend while visiting Memorial Park in Santa Monica, California. The sky was all mixed-up with clouds, but it still felt warm and humid. It took me about an hour or so to paint en plein air on 11×14″ canvas board withContinue 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
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
It was a humid, overcast evening, great for painting. Even if I paint the same park over and over each time I use a slightly different technique.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 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