Malibu Magic - 16 x 20 oil on canvas - Available
This is another seascape which was painted for the Descanso show.
I’m starting to unwind, now after all the activity and energy of the month. Tomorrow might actually be the first day that I’ll choose to “sleep in” which means a little later […]

“White Lilies” - 5 x 7 oil on canvasboard
These are two of the blossoms in the beautiful bouquet my children sent me in celebration of some of my recent good news. I’m slowly catching up and getting back to ‘’normal.” This week I hope to get back in the routine of painting […]

“Sheltering Sycamore” 8 x 10 oil
This is the last of my Descanso demonstration paintings, which I finished yesterday afternoon. It is a local painting of a clump of sycamore trees only a mile or so from our house at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. I have painted this cluster before […]

“High Desert Breeze” - 8 x 10 oil on panel
On the road between Palm Springs and Idyllwild (highway 74) there’s a turnoff which leads to a beautiful high desert road where sagebrush, pine and cactus freely mingle. It is perhaps a transitional zone in the local ecology - no longer the […]

Vineyard Oak - 9 x 12 original oil painting
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We are winding down at the gallery - only three days to go before we pack up and go home on Thursday night. It’s been a good run - an interesting and educational experience in many ways. This painting was started today […]

“Blue Skies” - 9 x 12 oil on board
On Friday I arrived in the afternoon at the gallery and didn’t have time to do a whole small painting. So instead I decided to take my easel outside and do some more studies of clouds - this time in oil instead of watercolor. […]

“Drifters in the Stream” - 12 x 16 - oil on canvas
Accepted into California Art Club’s biannual show, opens Nov. 3
We were celebrating yesterday because I just found out that my oil painting “Drifters in the stream” was accepted into the California Art Club’s biannual show at the Pasadena Women’s City Club at the […]

“Chinatown, My Chinatown” - 16″ x 12.5″ (before framing) - watercolor on paper
I came home from Descanso Gardens yesterday to a very special surprise. My painting “Chinatown, my Chinatown,” has been selected for the 39th annual Watercolor West show which will open December 6 at the Riverside Art Museum.
Watercolor West is […]

“High Desert Trails” 8 x 10 oil on board (road from Palm Springs to Idyllwild)
This painting was started over the weekend at Descanso Gardens as a demonstration painting for people who took a few moments to visit our gallery. I finished it on Sunday night at home and now […]