Plein Air San Fernando Mission
2021-11-15
Painting today with a plein air group at the San Fernando Mission! What a historical, iconic California landmark it is! I would go back just to explore the history on display.Continue Reading
Harvest Festival 11/13/2021
2021-11-14
Thank you all for visiting me and all of the other artists at the Harvest Festival today in Toluca Lake on Riverside Drive! It was fun, although it was unseasonably hot! If you missed us, we will be back 12/4/2021 in the same place selling our wares! Below is aContinue Reading
Ruined Trees
2021-11-08
This is a work in progress that I started en plein air with a pallette knife. I think I am going to add a “dot” layer on top.Continue Reading
Final Deukmajian Nature Center painting
2021-10-22
This is pretty much the final version of the Deukmajian painting. I added a blue glaze to the distant mountain, cleaned up the lines, and added a green glaze to the grass.Continue Reading
Deukmejian Nature Center
2021-10-14
Plein air painting at the Deukmejian Nature Center.Continue Reading
Olive Building
2021-09-19
I finished the painting of a building at Olive Park in Burbank. I do not know the official name of it. I originally started this en plein air and completed it using my cloisonnist style with some impressionism in the background.Continue Reading
Montrose Car Show Plein Air
2021-09-05
The Montrose Car Show today happened to be on the hottest day this month so far (100°F) so I was lucky to find a somewhat shady spot by the road to paint. I used my spray bottle often to keep the acrylic paint from drying. Two hours and the resultContinue Reading
Detail of a Sycamore Tree
2021-08-31
I painted this on a 12″ square canvas en plein air in about an hour and a half. The sun was already behind a hill when I started and there was hardly any light left at all when I finished. Even though it was painted quickly and alla prima, IContinue Reading
Plein Air at the Park
2021-07-25
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
Dot Intersection
2021-05-22
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