Bolton Hall Museum is a stone building built many years ago that is used as a site for a small municipal park in Tujunga, California. It is not far from my home so I decided to paint it. I may return because there are different angles of the building toContinue Reading
This morning I did not venture far for my plein air painting. Literally I walked down the street and set up at the corner. I found a good spot where I could see the road disappearing down the hill, the mountains beyond, and an interesting house on the corner. PeopleContinue Reading
I completed this painting on a hill in Glendale, California overlooking the valley down below. It was cold and there were dark clouds forming as I painted. Suddenly I hear something coming towards me in the bushes – it was a wall of small hailstones! I tried to continue paintingContinue Reading
This weekend I finished the Montrose Farmers’ Market painting I started a few weeks ago. I cleaned up the lines and fixed some colors. Then I added my stylized dot finish to it. This final layer of color turned a colorful and cheery painting into a strange and otherworldly one.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
Last weekend I painted en plein air at a Farmer’s Market in Montrose, California. The dry, sunny day kept drying out my paints. This is my first draft – later I am going to fix the composition, define the lines, and change a few colors. Then I will add theContinue 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
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