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Current Archive: SLO 2019


5 days. 13 Paintings. 16 miles hiked. 2 miles paddled with art supplies and a wet painting on my back. 1 barbed wire fence crawled under. 1 mountain, painted twice… by accident




Motel California

Original Size: 20" x 16"

I know you guys think my job is super easy. Just cruise around and paint...

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Hallowed Ground

Original Size: 20" x 16"

William Wendt was a master of California Impressionism, a distinct school of impressionist art forged...

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Grounded

Original Size: 16" x 12"

I painted this boat a few years ago, grounded hopelessly on the rocks in a...

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Meet Me in St. Louis

Original Size: 16" x 12"

A little further than the road will take you, this little cove is accessed mainly...

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A Pier Then Disappear

Original Size: 12" x 12"

Ok, let’s circle back to the Italian dairy farms that took root here in 1860’s…...

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Red and Gold

Original Size: 12" x 12"

Corralina, it’s the Italian word for coral, and though no coral is found in this...

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La Meccanica in un Momento de Pace

Original Size: 16" x 12"

High tariffs in the newfound Kingdom of Italy in 1865 led to a large number...

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The Devil at My Heels

Original Size: 16" x 12"

The devil that was at my heels this day, wasn’t really a devil at all....

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Sir Francis Drake Was a Pirate

Original Size: 20" x 16"

It’s true, he was a full on sea-sailing, ship-boarding, plunder-stealing, off-with-yer-head-if-you cross him pirate. The...

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Ebb and Flow

Original Size: 16" x 12"

There is nothing like painting in the cool shade on a warm summer day, with...

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The Back Road

Original Size: 16" x 12"

 As it happens, on this morning all of my plans were thwarted by that mother...

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A Dissonant End

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 I’ve got no ear for harmonies, seriously. I might not be tone-deaf, but I am...

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Harmonic Convergence

Original Size: 12" x 12"

 Every little canyon has its own song I don’t have much ear for music Painting is how...

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