Wild Turkeys, Carmel Valley. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
Plein air painting in California is always a joy and I’ve said before that I believe I became a landscape painter because of the beauty of California’s Central Coast. Here are images of my recent paintings of the area. As always, I spent a lot of time scouting by car as I needed to find picturesque motifs to enlarge into larger pieces in the studio this winter.
Farm near Soledad. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
Chaparral at Garapata State Beach. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
Point Lobos. 11 x 14 in., oil on linen.
In an attempt to lighten my travel kit, I tried just using a cellphone to photograph my work this trip. It didn’t really work out and I apologize for the quality of the images. I’ll go back to lugging around a DSLR.
Belladonna Lilies. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
Tina Painting in Big Sur. 44 x 11 in., oil on linen.
I taught a couple of workshops for Carmel Visual Arts and we painted in two of the Monterey Regional Parks District‘s parks. They’ve done a great job of setting aside some of the more beautiful parts of the Monterey area for public use and preservation.
Garland Park #1. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
Garland Park #2. 11 x 14 in., oil on linen.
Garland Park #3. 11 x 14 in., oil on linen.
The Barn at Palo Corona #1. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
The Barn at Palo Corona #2. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
The Barn at Palo Corona #3. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
The last three are from around my parent’s house in Carmel Valley. I’m always really interested in the views of neighborhoods as I love art which is focused on local scenes, which people might not notices as they pass by in their daily lives.
Horses on Garzas Road. 8 x 12 in., oil on linen.
The One Lane Bridge. 12 x 8 in., oil on linen.
Garzas. 11 x 14 in., oil on linen.
Before heading to the East Coast we painted around Lake Tahoe and near Sacramento and I’ll try to post those images in a future update. It’s always hard keeping up with the online stuff in the summers as there is so much painting to be done.