Yellows enter Blues and Purples - Marina at Dawn San Diego.

Most of you know I teach and preach a lot of 'Return to the Similar Spot Again & Again' s...

Alcazar Garden - Japanese Orchid.

Here below the view of a Japanese Orchid tree. It made such a wonderful shade on the yellowish building.

Very ofte...

Overcast Pleasures.

I call this 'Overcast Pleasures' because that's what it is. The joy of making 'something out of nothing'. If you can be inspired ...

Earliest Morning View - Nighttime Lights.

Tedd joined me in painting the earliest of early mornings. Most mornings I would wake at 4.30. Told ye :) t...

High Key Gold.

I've added 50+ more pictures extra in these 8 posts about the Pleinair Convention!

The next day I drove to Seascape Village at 5 AM. ...

View Through Trees.

Eileen and I painted the view on the scenery near the hotel here. Below you'll find more pictures, selfies and such from this inc...

Coming to San Diego.

The traveling towards San Diego was the hard part.. the preparing for my talk at PACE 2017 took a decent amount of time and then...

Natural Tones.

Here I decided to not get the bright colored seawater in, instead, I was aiming for a more natural total.

SSU23-2015 Seascape Plein...

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...