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California Golden Hills 11 x 14 Plein air oil painting Interested in this painting? Please write This painting is currently on exhibition in the San Clemente Art Association Gallery, in San Clemente, CA. Much of the week in San Clemente we experienced “June gloom” – that cool gray marine layer that covers the seacoast until [...]
“Above San Clemente” 8 x 10 oil The view from Salvador Drive, high above San Clemente, about 5:30 in the evening This painting is on exhibit at the San Clemente Art Association Gallery, until July 31. If you are not in the area but are interested in purchasing, please write me and I will contact [...]
Kildeer on ground nest – plein air painting “6 x 8″ oil on canvas board The paintout continues in San Clemente. Today, I had a rare opportunity, very unexpected, to do an oil painting of a bird from life. We were walking along a bluff in Dana Point and suddenly saw a kildeer guarding its [...]
“Meanwhile, back at the ranch” 10 x 12 oil plein air painting of a ranch in Fallbrook, California Late afternoon light casts long shadows across the pasture of this peaceful ranch in Fallbrook, California. When I was there painting, the peepers had already started their songs in the nearby irrigation canals. Spring grasses have turned [...]
“Until You Come Home” 9 x 12 oil on panel This was the painting that I did for the QuickDraw phase of the San Clemente Art Association annual paintout. A quick draw is a timed competition – from the stamping of panels to the final horn, we had exactly 3 hours to get to a [...]
Mammoth Lakes Study 5″ x 7″ oil on canvas panel Interested in this painting? Please write Just a quick study of Mammoth Lakes, California, from a trip we took long ago. I’d like to get up that way this summer and paint on location. I did some watercolor plein air paintings many years ago – [...]
“Windblown Cypress Tree” (Southern California seacoast) 11 x 14 oil on canvas SOLD If you’re interested in this painting, please write. From the moment I saw this California cypress tree I knew I had to do an oil painting of it. Most of my tree experience comes from the big four: eucalyptus, oaks, sycamores and [...]
“Westward Waves” 16 x 20 oil on canvas Interested in this painting? Please write This painting was done in anticipation of the San Clemente paintout and sale, which will start a week from Saturday and continue through the following Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28. This will be my first year participating and I’m [...]
A Walk in the Surf 8″ x 6″ oil on canvas SOLD to a collector from Santa Cruz A romantic stroll on the beach, the water rolling up gently on the shore. If you live near a coast I’ll bet you have a memory or two, don’t you? I’m thinking seaward these days, getting geared [...]
Garden Path (Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden) 11 x 14 oil on canvas We had a great weekend at the Art in the Garden sale at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in spite of the ever-present threat of rain. In spite of the light turnout, some of my paintings found new homes and I had [...]
