Descanso Summer Evening in the Rose Garden
12 x 16 oil on canvas

Long days and late sunsets provide an opportunity to stroll the grounds of Descanso Gardens on a few special evenings in the summer. Those nights remind me of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream - where almost anything could happen, and the mood […]

Peace Rose Painting
8 x 10 oil on canvas
Available
Here’s another in my rose series - this time a close up in a more realistic style. I love impressionism, but I wanted to challenge myself to do a more realistic painting from life, and this was the result.
Now for the taggage
5. When I was growing up […]

Descanso Gardens
Roses and Crepe Myrtle at Twilight
12 x 16 oil on canvas
Another painting of my beloved Descanso Gardens, when roses and crepe myrtle are in peak bloom. The Verdugo Moutains rise in the background at twilight.
Continuing with my tagged list:
3. I’m an only child who married an only child - […]

Cabo San Lucas Seascape Oil Painting
16 x 20 oil on canvas
I’ve been working on a large commission of this same scene (in a 24 x 30 inch size) for a lovely client … and still have a few areas that I’m finishing up. In order to have something to paint over this past weekend […]

Poppies in Lancaster
9 x 12 acrylic on canvas on board
Will be given away tonight at a special event at Flintridge Books

Today’s the day. I’ll be painting this afternoon at Flintridge Books in La Canada, from about 2:30 pm on. And I will be showing six recent works encompassing a variety of styles and […]

Yellow Rose
6″ x 6″
oil on canvas on board
Available
If it’s not too late, I’m going to head over to the nursery today to see if they still have a few bare root roses left to plant. I do love roses and grow them in my yard. My favorites are Climbing Peace, Just Joey […]

Peaceful Stream
6 x 8 inches
oil on canvas
This small painting evolved as a study as I experimented with some ways to work with texture and color in clouds and reflected water using a springtime color palette. Although I do most of my paintings of specific places, sometimes I work with the landscape in a […]

Eucalyptus Grove with California poppies
6 x 8 oil on canvas
This painting is a little bit reality, a little bit imagination. My inspiration was a grove of eucalyptuses but I remembered reading something not too long ago about how the San Gabriel Valley looked when the fields were covered with poppies. Rivers […]

Newport Back Bay Sunset
5 x 7 inch
Oil on canvas panel
This small study was painted to make some design decisions about a larger painting of Newport’s Back Bay, where we visited last week. At sunset the colors of the sky are reflected in the marshy area. The trees probably weren’t this close together […]

“Red Cabin at Mt. Pinos”
12 x 16 oil on canvas
Available
We had another good rainstorm here in Los Angeles, which translates to snow in our higher mountains. I had been saving this painting for the next snowy occasion , so here it is. It’s a new one, of a cabin in the woods on Highway […]