"Point Lobos Cypress"

12x12" - oil on canvas panel

I'm having a serious computer crisis. It's become almost impossible to boot up, it keeps shutting itself down. Anyway, I plan to head over to the Apple store as soon as I can. I'm going to keep painting but I may not be able to post for a few days. 

"East Beach"

12x12 inch oil on canvas panel

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I've decided to do a few 12x12 inch paintings. I feel some of my smaller daily paintings might work as larger paintings so you may see some familiar compositions. This particular scene is on East Beach in Santa Barbara, a beautiful spot with gentle waves and much warmer water than we have here in the San Francisco area. I feel like I could use some beach time right about now.

"School of Corona"

This is another 12x12" painting. I was so relieved when I finally got this thing mapped out and I could begin laying in the color! The idea for this painting came to me as I was falling asleep a few nights ago. My original thought was to have it be a very tall canvas with twenty or so bottles appearing to swim upstream. I'm glad I decided to start with only four bottles! I may do the larger painting at some point but I'm happy with this one for now.

"Ice-O-Mat"

My Aunt Claire sent me this antique ice crusher for Christmas about ten years ago. It worked for about a year and then it sort of locked up. I can't even turn the handle anymore. In case it's not obvious, you open the metal lid, put in your ice, crank the handle, open the red drawer and voila! By the way, if you want to learn to paint quickly, paint ice. This painting is the first of my 12x12" efforts for the upcoming show at the Studio Gallery.