larry groff

Here is another little painting I made with the San Diego Meetup Plein Air group. A rare rainstorm came up while painting and we had to leave after only an hour. The struggle to paint the light with the clouds moving so fast with the wind was madness. The scene would completely change literally from one minute to the next. I think that is part of why I like this little study, the rush and intensity to capture the fleeting moment left me little time to tickle stuff and just go for the essential. This is a view of the El Capitan mountain seen from El Cajon.

A view of the Alvarado Water Treatment Plant at Lake Murray. about 8″ by 16″, oil on canvas 9/2008

We live about 2 blocks from Lake Murray, in the San Carlos area of San Diego. I walked to this scene of the mountain from my house to make this little one sitting 8 x10″ painting on panel.

Here is a view from a park in La Mesa. Actually this is the first little painting I made with the San Diego Plein Air group. Oil on Canvas about 10 x 12 I think. My posts to this blog are out of chronological order at the moment. Eventually I hope to sort it all out and date stuff appropriately. After today I will post regularly and show the stuff I am working on – either small plein air work or other smaller works as well as larger works in progress. I also hope to discuss other artists work, comment on shows I am able to see, and generally musing on art related topics. Stay tuned…

Here is a small oil study on paper of a view of Lake Murray. about 8 x 10. I did this with a group of painters I meet online via the San Diego Meet-up – the San Diego Plein Air meet-up a great bunch of plein air landscape painters that I sometimes paint with on Saturday mornings. Hard to keep up with them as I am often too busy painting on other stuff or having to deal with other stuff like work…

I moved to San Diego from Boston back in August of this year. My wife and I moved here to help take care of Father who has some serious heart problems. My brother, Harry had been helping him out but he was deployed to Afghanistan for a year, he is an Infectious Disease MD for the Navy. Anyway, this painting is one of the first paintings I did once I got settled enough to start painting again. Not the greatest photo but the scene shows some possibilities for returning sometime. Not one of my favorites, I gotta admit.