"Laguna Inlet" Juried into "The Golden State" California Art Club Exhibit at the Old Mill

"Laguna Inlet" 12 x 16

Painted  en Plein Air in Heisler Park on a misty morning in Laguna Beach

Exhibit Information:

EXHIBITION DATES:

January 14 – May 17, 2020

LOCATION:

CAC Gallery at The Old Mill

1120 Old Mill Road

San Marino, CA 91108

Winter's Light, La Jolla Shores, plein air watercolor.

'Winter's Light,  La Jolla Shores". Plein Air Watercolor, painted on location. 10 1/2 X13 1/2

In February we traveled to La Jolla Shores to celebrate a birthday. The afternoon sunshine and coastal mist was a subject I am very inexperienced with, I tried to capture the glow and atmosphere.

Diablo Arts Magazine Cover and Walnut Creek Turns 100 Exhibit, Lesher Foundation Award

The neighboring city of Walnut Creek has a public arts program sponsored by the city and the Lesher Foundation. I was honored to be asked if my painting " Wild At Heart" could be used as the cover to promote the Walnut Creek Turns 100 Exhibit.

  























The  Bedford Gallery also chose to feature the uncropped version in the brochure for Walnut Creek turns 100.

At the reception I was happy to find out my painting won the Lesher Foundation Award.
On the following Monday I was invited to give a docent talk about my painting which was a great experience, I got to meet some very talented artists and address a lively group of about 40 docents..Thanks to Carrie Lederer and her staff for a wonderful, local experience! Because this exhibit is unjuried it is uneven, but there are some wonderful pieces included, you just have to find them.

Exhibition Details:
Walnut Creek Turns 100: Celebrating the City Through Art September 21 - November 16, 2014

Admission during Walnut Creek Turns 100 is free thanks to a generous grant from the Lesher Foundation

Final Paintings and Sale Sonoma Plein Air Art Event 2014

Clouds Over Cabernet 6 x 6 Sold

George Ranch Oaks 6 x 6

A break by the coast: August Pescadaro Marsh 9 x 12 Plein Air Watercolor

August Pescadaro Marsh  9 x 12 Plein Air Watercolor

It was great to go paint at the Coast of Northern California. The moisture in the air was a good change from the dry conditions in the East Bay. This quick 9 x 12 was composed for me by nature, I turned my head and the dramatic darks of the trees contrasted with the distant and middle ground hills and gave the painting a dramatic focus.

After the Mount Diablo Fire Series, After the Fire V and VI

After the Fire V 12 x 16
This is looking up at the summit in the fire zone. We had had some rain and there was new growth in the chaparral areas that was a lovely fresh green, the bare chert soil was a  deep red, burnt orange that contrasted nicely.

After the Fire VI 16 x 20
This is at Devil's elbow, just below the summit. The fire hopscotched through this area leaving patches of soil and singeing the lower part of the pines.

After the Mount Diablo Fire Series, "After the Fire III" and " After the Fire IV"

 After the Fire III  Plein Air watercolor 16 x 20

After the Fire IV Plein Air Watercolor 16 x20

Here are two more paintings showing the changes on Mount Diablo  in the first year after the 2013 fire. Despite the drought  there is green vegetation returning in the bald areas left after the fire. As the season prgoesses I am trveling further up into the burn zone to see the plants against the bare earth.

"By the Old Field" california plein air watercolor 16 x 20

By the Old Field 16 x 20 Plein Air watercolor

Painted in Northern California, it looks like August out there, not June.
 This solitary Eucalyptus is all that's left of what I imagine was quite an impressive windbreak. These hills north of Livermore are in a rural area outside the water districts and residents have to rely on their own wells.

Paso Arts Fest Wet Paintings

I am still unpacking from the Paso Arts Fest,
Some of these paintings  are  on display at Studios on the Park in Paso Robles until the end of June.

Bishop Peak May 11 x 14

Golden Moment 10 x 12 sold

Salinas River Morning 11  x14

Thacher's View 12 x 12 sold

San Miguel Morning  14 x 14

 My  panel showing the four I chose to hang because I thought they looked most like a cohesive group.

"Late Bloomers" ,Plein air watercolor, painted on Mount Diablo

"Late Bloomers" 14 x 14 .
Got the last of the poppies on Mt Diablo before the heat hit this week.