Americana Final Painting
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
Americana at Brand Plein Air Painting
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
Plein Air at Ernest E. Krebs Regional Park
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
“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
Strange Jungle Triptych
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
Famous Water Tower in Burbank
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
Toluca Lake Holiday Open House
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
San Fernando Mission Painting
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
Toluca Lake Painting
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
