Downtown San Fernando
2024-11-18
I’ve been busy painting downtown San Fernando, and trying out different painting styles.Continue Reading
Summer Plein Air Painting Sessions
2023-07-18
I did not even know the Walt Disney Music Hall in Los Angeles had a garden until our painting group met there. It is easy to miss because it is small and it is hard to tell if the stairs leading to it are open to the public. The gardenContinue 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
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 Late Summer
2021-08-29
Painting today at Olive Park in Burbank. This is an old venue but a new subject. I do not know what they use this building for.Continue Reading
California T-Shirt
2021-07-02
I took a photo looking across highway 1 at the palm trees and used that to make a small painting. Now the painting is on a shirt just in time for summer!Continue Reading