“Snow on the Crest”
16 x 20 oil on canvas
This is a view into the Crescenta Canada Valley from a high road in Flintridge, near the Sacred Heart Academy. The 210 freeway can be seen on the left as it passes the upper Arroyo Seco. The mountains are the San Gabriel range. Last winter, a […]

Capistrano Train Station
9 x 12 oil on linen panel
Plein air painting - June 2009

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Among the other locations we explored during our week in San Clemente was nearby San Juan Capistrano. The old train station is a picturesque diversion bordering the Los Rios Historical District.
I found a good spot […]

California Golden Hills
11 x 14
Plein air oil painting

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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 early afternoon. Although paintings in […]

“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.
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This was one […]

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 nest - […]

“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 location, paint a […]

Mammoth Lakes Study
5″ x 7″
oil on canvas panel

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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 - including one sitting […]

This California landscape oil painting was inspired by a pepper tree I saw leaning into the wind on a golden hill.
Peppertree Hill
9 x 12
oil on wood panel

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The spring green grass has turned to gold, now, and even though we are experiencing more than a usual amount of “June gloom,” […]

“Windblown Cypress Tree”
(Southern California seacoast)
11 x 14 oil on canvas
Available

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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 palms. Cypresses only seem to […]