Welcome to my blog section where I generally show works in progress, smaller paintings as well as some of my just completed larger paintings. The painting section is the best place to see my body of work as a whole but this blog is updated more frequently and sometimes includes brief comments about the work.

I also run a blog called Painting Perceptions, a blog primarily concerned with modern painting made from observation and other issues related to contemporary perceptual painting.

I welcome your comments and feedback.

I will be leaving for Rome in a few weeks where Liz and I will see great art and great eats for several days and then go to Sorrento for a few more days. She will then fly back to San Diego while l go off to Siena to join a workshop with Israel Hershberg, Stuart Shils, Ken Krewley and Lennart Anderson for four weeks.

I decided to not bring a laptop with me, instead I plan to bring an iPad. I am testing out the iPad right now, the typing is a bit clunky, with typing directly on the screen but half the problem is that I need to trim my nails! I’m also using this as a test to see if I can post to my blog and painting perceptions using this word press app for the iPad. I’ll try to insert an image after I see if this works.

Testing how to edit a day later.

Coin Laundry, 04/10, Oil on panel 12 x 16 inches

New Life Laundry, 04/10, Oil on linen 10 x 20 inches

Theater Parking, 04/10, Oil on panel 11 x 14 inches

Break in the Storm, 04/10, Oil on panel 11 x 14 inches

Some relatively new works. I’ve decided to work more in the city and to concentrate more on architectural forms for the time being. It allows me to explore new ways of putting together a picture as well as thinking about color. These paintings were all done in the North Park area of San Diego. I’m excited about finding some new subjects and I think I’m starting to be a little more daring about where to set up my easel. I also just started a new large painting (36″ x 48″) on a busy street corner in Hillcrest of the 24 hour Fitness and Hillcrest Theater Mall complex that just knocks me out the way the early morning light hits their intensely multi-colored walls and funky-abstract shaped California-style mall architecture.

Axis, Bold as Love, 04/10, Oil on panel 11 x 14 inches

Big Pink, 04/10, Oil on panel 12 x 16 inches

Igneous Drama, 03/10, Oil on linen 16 x 20 inches

A painting I recently finished. Done on Mt Woodson next to a large vernal pond. I found the drama of the way the rock and tree shapes interacted particularly captivating – I hope I did the scene justice.

Clouds over Mt Woodson Mt. Woodson Water Tank, 03/03/10, Oil on canvas 10 x 20 inches

A one sitting study of clouds quickly moving over the Water Tank on Mt. Woodson as seen from the pond. One of my favorite cloud paintings thus far. I was very excited about this little painting.

Clouds over Mt Woodson Boulders, 03/04/10, Oil on canvas 18 x 18 inches

Grey Day Study of Boulder and Trees, Oil on canvas 11 x 14 inches 01/19/10

Quick study on a grey day

Rock On Vernal Pond, Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches 03/10

This could also be titled Rock On! Vernal Pond.

The Painted Rock, Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches 02/10

The Boulder on the far right was given the name of “Painted Rock” by the boulder climbers.

The Uncertainty Principle, Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches 02/10

Here is the first of some new paintings I’ve been working on over the past several weeks. These mountain and boulder paintings are larger than my previous 8 x 10″. I’ve finally worked out a system for carrying all the gear needed for larger paintings up the mountain.

This painting is called The Uncertainty Principle after the actual name given to the big boulder on the right by Boulder climbers, they have mapped and named many of the boulders on Mt Woodson (where I painted this). I thought it an apt title as there is often a great deal of uncertainty in the thinking behind this painting. Over all I think it is the start of a new direction I’m pursuing. More on this later as my thinking evolves into greater certainty!