The Hideaway

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Central Park in Winter

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

City Park in Summer

acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48"

This is a work in progress, a work of imagination, and the largest I've attempted to date.  We'll see how it goes from here.

Cruising Down the Li

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Lola in the Wind

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Cornerstone on a Cloudy Day

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 12"

Harrie in the Desert

acrylic on canvas, 30" x 20"

This one's for Roy, or maybe from him.  I had to do it.

Birds in Paradise

acrylic on canvas, 30" x 36"

This is the last painting in my "Goleta" series.  It is by far the largest plein air painting I have done to date.  There is something freeing about painting large canvases outdoors, so long as the weather cooperates, which it did on this occasion.  

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acrylic on canvas paper, 9" x 12"

This started as an exercise in grays, since the reference for it was a black and white photo.  Naturally, one thing led to another, and there you go.

Shollenberger Wetlands

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Painted from a photo I had taken of the wetlands at Shollenberg Park, I wanted to capture the beautiful neutral color of the water.  It had this pearl-like glow the day I saw it.

Red Sunset

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"

Goleta Slough, Eastern View

acrylic on linen-mounted gatorfoam, 24" x 12"

Another plein air painting from the Santa Barbara area that was finished in the studio.

Goleta Beach

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 24"

Another plein air painting from my trip south a few weeks ago, this one also finished in the studio.

Desert Dawn

iPad painting, 14" x 10"

Goleta Slough

acrylic on linen mounted on gatorboard, 12" x 16"

I recently spent a few days painting at Goleta Beach, just north of Santa Barbara, with Marcia Burtt, hoping to glean a few pearls of wisdom from an absolute master.  In the two plus days I had with her, I started five paintings and finished none.  This was my last effort, the result of a two-hour session on the morning of my return home.  I worked on it for another two hours in the studio, until I was done with it and the next unfinished painting called out to me.  More to come.

A Prayer for Christine

acrylic on canvas panel, 9" x 12"

NFS

This was painted while my housemate and friend Christine was having breast reconstruction surgery after breast cancer.  It is going to live with her now, and I am very pleased.

BJ on Blue Bed

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

A little sketch of a beautiful and very tired feral cat who adopted us at Waldruhe Heights back in 2006.  BJ stood for Bonzo Junior, Roy's dog, and also Betty Jo, a dear friend of his.

Nicasio Reservoir

acrylic on canvasboard, 12" x 16"

This was done from a photo I took at a spot that was not amenable to onsite painting.

Guilin

acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Yet another painting in my China series.  I used a very limited palette of only 4 colors for this one, trying to create atmosphere and depth in the background.

Porch View, Rose and Tony's Place

acrylic on gessoboard, 12" x 12"

This is a plein air sketch I did the other day at Rose and Tony's house in rural Petaluma after a storm blew through the area.