Evening Water Colors.

Here I worked fast to get that swift-moving evening light in. All of these fractions of warm colors towards the left, shade mov...

Water, Afternoon Light, and Shades of Trees.

Movement of light, figures, waves, or anything, and painting it from life:
I think whenever you have the...

Light Moves.

Everything moves, the people, the light, the water, waves, the colors, shades. I love this about painting pleinair.

Don't fear it. Embr...

Strong Backlight in the Afternoon.

Fascinating and hard to paint that afternoon harsh backlight.
But a pleasure when it works out!

Also I like the sk...

Shoreline and Backlight in Summer.

Proud of this one. When my kids would be on this one, I wouldn't have sold it :-)

When I paint these 'pastel' bac...

Towards evening the Shiny stuff happens!

Lucky moments: being there late at the beach and the kids are not 'whining enough to pack up'.. yet... and t...

'Squint and Compose'

Most people think 'movement' is the thing that's most hard to capture painting outdoors. And it's true. Moving figures, moving c...

Hot Days.

Lively Scenes! Love those days when there is really SO MUCH to choose from so much to paint!

The beach always 'breathes' a different vibe,...

(oopsy.. forgot this one from the Cali Series. So here it is now.)

Seascape Morning View Ocean (Carmel)

This was around 6 AM, no real sunrise, a bit...

Seascape Beach 'Hazy Sunny Day'.

There was water here and I painted it. But it evaporated and instead I painted the sand again. What you get then is ...