California Landscape Paintings, Photography and Life Adventures
Its springtime and as more of us receive our covid vaccines the brighter the future will be. Today is a beautiful day along the California Coast and I painted this morning at the harbor in Moss Landing. For the first time in over a year I went to lunch with 3 fellow painters on a …
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“Abalone Shell” Plein Air , 9 x 12 inch, Oil on RayMar archival canvas panel. I gathered a few things from our backyard on Sunday and then painted this Plein Air in a few hours.
I drove down to San Diego to celebrate my wife Helen’s, and daughter Anna’s Birthdays ! Our 2 sons flew in from the East Coast to join us. Paul from Cornell University in NY and Noel from Virginia. On the drive down I stopped for 2 hours near Pismo Beach and painted “Pirates Cove” from …
Happy NewYear ! I have a great way to start the New Year. I have accepted a challenge from fellow Plein Air artist Mark Monsarrat to paint 5 paintings in 5 days and post them on Facebook each day. I will start on Jan 12, to celebrate my wife’s birthday. Also, here are 4 recent …
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Happy Holidays to everyone! Here are a few new paintings, and I hope to do a few more posts before the year is out. I am now a member of 3 Art organizations: Los Gatos Art Association, Triton Museum, and North Tahoe Arts. As we approach the end of the year I feel I am …
9/10 I am posting the photos of the week long North Tahoe Plein Air competition that I participated in on the PleinAir page. The weather was great and I had a rewarding time meeting potential Customers, Gallery owners and fellow PleinAir artists. I sold 1 painting and had very many favorable comments and compliments. …
News: I have been accepted to the North Tahoe Arts Plein Air event Sept. 2-7 where I will be painting in competition with 24 other artists, and having paintings displayed in galleries. I will add more details as the event approaches. Thanks for everyones patience while waiting for this next post. I made a fun …
WOW! I attended the 3rd Annual Plein Air convention in Monterey from April 7 to 11 with more than 700 Artists, and 80 World Class painter instructors. It was wonderful and inspirational to meet interesting and friendly people from around the world, all of whom share the same challenges, ideals …
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Here are a few Plein Air oil paintings completed recently in San Diego. They are quick 2 hour sketches aimed at capturing the colors, moods, and energy for that day and time. I’ve always enjoyed painting outside with all the challenges of changing weather, movements of boats and waves, ever moving shadows, etc. Each of …
Probably sooner than I thought, I have added a Galleries Page ( above) that features separate galleries for Watercolors and Oils ! There are also several new images, 3 of them are new paintings. I am thinking about adding a third gallery for all the PleinAir paintings, but for now they are mixed in with …
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