Orcutt Ranch Plein Air
2022-02-07
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
Plein Air at Montrose Farmer’s Market
2022-02-01
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
Memorial Park en Plein Air Painting
2022-01-18
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
Americana Final Painting
2022-01-09
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
2022-01-07
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
2022-01-03
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
2021-12-19
“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
2021-12-19
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
Toluca Lake Painting
2021-11-27
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