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      Painting the California Coast, Volume One
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SHOREPOUND AND WOMP

Some waves expend their lives out on the reefs and sandbars, others gather themselves and come crashing full-steam right on the beach.





Twentytwenty II

Original Size: 24" x 12"

Back in 2020 I painted a dark stormy shorepound painting as a response to the...

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Lost… Or Just Displaced

Original Size: 16" x 20"

The glossy pages of outdoor magazines are the admission tickets. Nylon and Gore-Tex nomads. Lovers...

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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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Ether

Original Size: 12" x 12"

Ever since I’d heard about the remains of this old pier at the bottom of...

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Nowhere Else to Go

Original Size: 12" x 16"

Sometimes there’s just nowhere else to go. You might be the raindrop drifting freely from...

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Walking on the Moon

Original Size: 20" x 10"

I don’t know why the child suffers But I know he is more than his...

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Twenty Twenty-One

Original Size: 30" x 30"

This is a follow up piece to a painting I did back in 2020. You...

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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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The End of California

Original Size: 16" x 12"

I’ve painted the border fence at the Mexico border before, but this is the first...

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Spring in July

Original Size: 16" x 12"

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Twentytwenty

Original Size: 36" x 18"

Twentytwenty doesn’t need much introduction. We’ve all been caught in this storm. That’s what this painting...

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Escaping Santa Cruz Crowds: circa 1880

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Yup. Even in 1880 Santa Cruz was getting too crowded for some folks, like Sabrino...

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Inclement

Original Size: 20" x 16"

For much of this trip I faced inclement weather, and eventually made peace with it...

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Bird, As a Weapon

Original Size: 24" x 12"

Written on March 26, 2020 This may look like social distancing in effect, but this...

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An Unfamiliar Song

Original Size: 16" x 12"

This was the endpoint of my longest hike on this trip, 11 miles total, and...

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Strata Various

Original Size: 16" x 12"

This headland took some serious work to get to. All said, this ended up being...

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The Apex of Spring

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Visiting this hard to reach outpost of California’s coast during the Spring Equinox after a...

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Moonshine

Original Size: 16" x 12"

Painted on location from a pier on one of California’s offshore islands during a full...

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Afternoon Martinis: Side B

Original Size: 24" x 12"

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All You Can Eat

Original Size: 20" x 10"

This was a significant painting for me. I have a tendency to want to include...

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All That Remains

Original Size: 20" x 10"

Notes… er… randomly connected poetry. I blame it on the weather. Holy moly this was...

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Eat the Rich

Original Size: 20" x 16"

It’s yours, you bought it. Now what? Put up a fence? A bunch of signs...

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Maybe Another Time

Original Size: 16" x 12"

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Dressed in White

Original Size: 20" x 16"

Not a fun place to attempt to park this huge van… Drive around, drive around,...

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