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      • Del Norte
      • Humboldt
      • Mendocino
      • Marin | Sonoma
    • – Central
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      • San Francisco | San Mateo
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    • The Complete California Archives
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      Painting the California Coast, Volume One
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Current Archive: Surfers Are The Worst


If you know any surfers well, you know this is true. Gotta keep an eye out for them. If you engage too much, next thing you know you’ll be cracking beers in the parking lot and the terrible surf out front will start looking pretty good, and your smelly wet wetsuit will crawl out of it’s bucket with a life of its own and drag you out surfing and you’ll be hungry afterwards and need a burrito and then half the day or more has blown by and you haven’t painted one bit. The worst. I treat them all with suspicion.




Yield for Tractor

Original Size: 12" x 12"

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Bamboozled

Original Size: 20" x 16"

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Hitting the High Notes

Original Size: 16" x 20"

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Nobody Home

Original Size: 36" x 24"

Nobody home Just kidding Everybody is home We all live here Our feet in the...

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Recent Fractures

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Standing on the edge Where everything brittle must eventually break Where every painting is a...

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Who Are You?

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Let’s meet for tacos. I drag an art pal along and we meet up with...

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Not Exactly No

Original Size: 16" x 20"

I’m pretty sure there are more than a few of you Who consider me a...

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Into the Sunset

Original Size: 18" x 24"

Will this be your first? That was my stupid question for them I’m not very...

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Where It Wishes

Original Size: 36" x 24"

You never know where the wind will take you. I generally avoid painting down at...

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Thermal Windows

Original Size: 20" x 16"

This private beach club cove once hosted a thriving whaling community. If one could activate...

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Buzz Buzz

Original Size: 30" x 15"

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You Go Left, I’ll go Right

Original Size: 20" x 16"

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Something Not So Easy

Original Size: 20" x 16"

If the previous painting of the day was titled Something Easy, well this would be...

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Something Easy

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Not much to say here, just a nice day on the southern California coast.  Just...

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The Sea is for “California”

Original Size: 20" x 16"

The Sea is for “California” The Ay is for “Ay, it looks kinda fun out...

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Jacob’s Ladder

Original Size: 20" x 16"

This pier is condemned. Structurally damaged. And the scene here beneath the shadow of its...

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No Van is an Island

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Another view from the roof of my van. This was the next morning and only...

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Just Before Sunset

Original Size: 20" x 16"

One of those summer evenings that make you just feel like life could always be...

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The Boulevard

Original Size: 20" x 16"

I came with a plan. The plan was to paint these sculpted arches and coves...

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Access to this pocket of reef beneath sandstone cliffs is now through a private club...

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Nosebleeds

Original Size: 20" x 16"

To be honest I don’t know why I’d never painted here before, I’ve painted a...

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California Responding to a Global Crisis

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Yeah, this is a big one we’re going through. But we’ve gone through others. This...

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Right Before Breakfast

Original Size: 16" x 12"

I’m not a “morning” person, I am however a “whatever-magic-is-in-the-light-in-this-particular-place-right-now” person so it worked itself...

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Right Before Lunch

Original Size: 20" x 16"

A view that never gets old. I actually painted from this exact vantage point 15...

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Slip and Slide

Original Size: 20" x 16"

I don’t know if anyone has ever painted from this vantage point, or ever will...

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