Moon over Mission Trails(approx) 14″ x 20″ Oil on Panel 8/2008

This plein air painting was done over several sessions at Mission Trails Regional Park – not far from where I live. I was racing with the evening mountain shadows as they flew up the side of the hillside. I loved the contrast of the dark foreground area in shadow and their expressive silhouettes of the chaparral against the brightly lit mountainside.

Triptych (each panel 36″ x 36″ oil on linen) San Diego as seen from Coronado.

This past March my father passed away, that plus a million and one other things has been keeping me away from updating my website and blog. However, I have been very busy painting and have a number of new paintings to post soon. I am working on an upgrade to my system for photographing my paintings and hopefully will retake some of the paintings (like this one) with much better photos.

This painting was done from photos I took from just across the street from where my father lived. He used to hang out at the Coronado bay front watching the ships pass by. In part, this painting was a bit of a tribute to him. I usually work primarily from observation but this work was done completely from photos and invention.