Casa De Estudillo - Old Town San Diego, CA

I found this photo online... built in 1827 - 1829. That's about as old as it gets in California!

8" x 10" oil on linen

detail

Alejandra's taquitos!

These were potato and green chili taquitos... perfection!

8" x 10" oil on linen (detail)

Melting Sundae

Painting this from life was a lot like painting a sunset from life... If I had it to do over, I would have made sure that ice cream was SUPER COLD and not barely frozen! It all happened so quickly...

8" x 10" oil on linen (detail)

I apologize for the long lay-off...

Mexican Pastry

This is a continuation of my "kitchen still lifes". I find them enjoyable and am building up a body of work with this theme.

8" x 10" oil on linen (detail)

Reclining figure study

I painted this a couple of weeks ago with our small but faithful figure painting group here at Disney.

11" x 14" oil on linen (detail)

Fechin and Leyendecker sketches...

I had a chance several weeks ago to visit the J.C. Leyendecker exhibit at the Fullerton Museum of Art. I was so impressed. That level of drawing skill is rare! I did a couple of sketches there at the museum. The large sketch is from a Fechin book I have.

Burbank alley - Equestrian Distrct

Painted this one with painting pals James 'monkey boy' Martin and William 'dirty beauty' Wray!

10" x 8 " oil on linen (detail)

Head Study

A group of us at Disney get together and paint from the model every other week. Here's one from a few sessions ago. I'm concentrating on the drawing more.

16" x 12" oil on linen (detail)

Gouache dog studies...

These are on Arches Cold Pressed paper
They are about life sized when exanded.

Still getting to know the medium. The Scottie is such a cool shape to work with...

Cambria Coast

I painted this one in the studio. I think this is starting to look more like my oils. I'm trying to treat the gouache paint like oils... picking up piles of paint instead of all washes. The hardest thing to get used to is the values changing as the paint dries.

5" x 7" gouache on paper

Psa 89:9 You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

I did these two small sketches Saturday morning. I was about 95 degrees by the time I finished the second one... at 11 a.m.!

gouache on paper
3" x 4.5"