oil painting
Abogados 18″ x 24″ Oil on Canvas 10/2008
Before I moved to San Diego last year I was in the middle or almost finished several paintings I was working from life near where I lived in Jamaica Plain. I recently returned to these painting finishing them from photos and memory.
Barbershop in Hyde Square 18″ x 24″ Oil on canvas 10/2008
Another painting I just finished after being on hold for over a year.
View of Hyde Square from Cranston Street, Jamaica Plain approx. 18″ x 24″ Oil on Canvas 9/2008
Another Jamaica Plain – Hyde Square painting that I just finished in the studio after being on hold for over a year when I moved to San Diego.
Behind the StarLight 30″ x 42″ Oil on Canvas 10/2008
Behind the StarLight is a larger painting that was started from life in Balbao Park in a spot that was behind the Star Light Outdoor Theater. I was moved by the play of light, gestures and abstract shapes of the scene as well as the funky topography and mood of the place. For several reasons I decided to finish the painting in the studio and wasn’t a plein air work.
Balboa park’s overwhelming number of picturesque scenes keep many San Diego painters busy however I am more attracted to off beat and the un-picturesque spots like this painting’s subject in the thinking that it more interesting to find new forms of beauty and wonder in the unexpected and mundane.
Under 15 30″ x 46″ Oil on Canvas 9/2008
When I was a teenager I used to spend a great deal of time on turnpike on-ramps hitch-hiking alone to where ever I could get to, Washington, Detroit, Philadelphia, sometimes with no particular destination – just to keep moving. Over the past year I keep returning to these images of highway overpasses and on-ramps in part for my nostalgic wanderlust as well as their often overlooked monumentality.
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.