Left Behind
Artwork
Her Quiet Time
Down Harbor Blvd, Just Past the Airport
Balance of Powers
This was painted live at a benefit event for our local hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program back in July. These live paintings usually auction at events for anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand on the far upper end. Not that this means a whole lot in the big picture, but we were […]
Russian Past
Rogue Showers
There Goes the Neighborhood
You never know where tomorrow will bring you, which is why these folks commissioned this deck-top view from their home awhile back- so they’d always have this painting, even if they didn’t always have this view.⠀⠀But there was more to the neighborhood than the view of the western sky over their neighbors’ houses. There were […]
Jim Denevan’s Gift
Tomorrow, Today
Tomorrow, today, and to be honest, yesterday as well. This was painted a while back in 2019. Nothing too deep, just having fun with the painting and thinking of those moody stormy days when the sun breaks out and the rain is still falling and everything becomes crystals and prisms and beauty. ⠀⠀But today, let’s […]
Mist and Light
When ones and zeroes No longer add up And the printing press Runs out of flesh And the headlines Have nowhere to run We’ll pick up the pieces Build temples of song Made of discarded words Metal vowels and consonants Foraged from fields Like seed for migrating birds And the truth that emerges Will cut […]
A Window of Light
I was supposed to drive a lot further up the coast on this day back in 2019. I didn’t get past this point though. After a few hours in the water, laughing as a handful of us rode these hypnotic little waves spinning down the point, I knew I was going to paint here as […]
What Lies Behind
No Harm, No Foul
Modern Lines
I’ve walked over and beneath this railroad line many a time. I’ve jumped from the tracks to flee the train. I’ve marveled at the burnt beams and wondered that entire trains could be held up by charcoal and memory. Apparently others wondered too, and decided on that eternal Roman upgrade- smooth concrete. Impervious to the […]
Midday Flats
The beach wasn’t closed last May, it was a just a terrible run of surf and conditions that kept everyone away. I’d never seen this place so empty. It’s hard to believe this is one of the focal points of surfing in Southern California. But not this day. There was no one. Looking down the […]
Inclement
For much of this trip I faced inclement weather, and eventually made peace with it by embracing the moody darkness it often brought to a scene, punctuated by the bursts of light whenever the clouds would break. Kind of experimental, and kind of a lot of fun. I had no intention of creating these darker […]
End of the West
It’s the end of the westIt’s the setting sunIt’s a train-wreck that’s only just begun It’s a crowded barIt’s the law of the landIt’s illicit activities obscured by hot sand It’s a war at seaIt’s the first shots firedIt’s victory in sight, though not the one desired It’s a shift in the windIt’s an outgoing […]
The Hectic Pace of Modern Life
Oh No, Not Today
Written on April 3, 2020 You might think this empty parking lot scene is a reflection of our current times, but the reality is that I had planned to spend a day here goofing off after a busy flurry of painting on the road last year. At the time I thought, “I’ll just head down […]
Winter in Summer
A further experiment in letting the paint run and not developing every part of a painting equally. In this case the showers in the distance were rendered by the unpredictable drips and runs of thin paint washes, with a bit of occasional help from the rain itself. With the exception of the yellow bloom in […]
A Hard Rain
The Beautiful Mountain
Bird, As a Weapon
The Deep South
Written on March 23, 2020 Looking north from about as far south as you can go on the California coast. The showers that threatened and taunted all morning finally passed, the sun burned the darkened watery grays right off the earth, evaporating in a humid mist rising, an all-hands invite to the impending mosquito feast. […]
The Other Side
