The painting below is of a park in Glendale, California that has many small bridges built across a dry riverbed from the mountains. This park is a favorite for professional photographers. I imagine with all the rain we had lately, those rivers may be full! I painted this in NovemberContinue Reading
I set up late in the afternoon in downtown Montrose, California. The sky was cloudy and getting dark quickly. I concentrated on the perspective of the street first. This foundation allows me to get creative with the colors later and the picture resembles the subject. This painting’s pink and redContinue Reading
Los Angeles State Historic Park – Los Angeles CA – October 2022 It was a dark, cloudy day with mild temperatures when I spent the day painting these. I am always refining my style. These brush strokes are more loose and quick but also conveys the movement and color contrastContinue Reading
I painted these at the park, using a high saturation base and black outlines. I was short on time and needed to to lay in the complementary top layer of color. They say that necessity is the mother of invention. The top layers were added in with expressive and quickContinue Reading
Here is a painting I did with my painting group at the Brand Library and park in Glendale, California. The light was bright and the shadows off the library were different shades depending on reflected light. I loved that the Hong Kong orchid tree was in bloom with its giantContinue Reading
This is a quick painting I did in late September 2022 of the mountains of the Angeles National Forest.Continue Reading
I received a commission to paint a painting of a car and I will explain how I did it.Continue Reading
Saturday August 13, 2022 9:00am: Our painting and sketching group met in downtown Los Angeles at the Central Market. Our mission was to paint and sketch the Central Market, Angels Flight, and the Bradbury Building. Luckily, all three of these iconic Los Angeles landmarks are in the same area. IContinue Reading
This is the final mutation of my painting of the lake at Ernest E Debs regional park in Los Angeles. The first layer of the painting was in an impressionist style, with realistic colors but not a lot of detail. Next the black outline was more defined and colors wereContinue Reading
Yesterday, July 16, 2022, was a scorching hot day inland so I decided to do a plein air painting by the ocean. Burton Chace Park in Marina Del Rey offers many views of boats and people at the marina. I like painting seaside scenes because even if I do aContinue Reading