Tag | Sunsets

Story: This painting is a view through open French doors of palms and a sunset with curtains blowing in the dry hot breeze. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …

Story: This painting is of a mid-century modern ladderback chair I found as a set of five in a thrift store in Santa Barbara. The chair and the shadow it cast were what drew me to paint it. The …

Story: This painting is of the sunset from the back dirt path in the Douglas Preserve, which is reclaimed parkland overlooking Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara. The painting is 16" x …

Story: This paintings is the view from the top of the cliffs at the edge of the Douglas Preserve looking south from Hendry’s Beach. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" …

Story: This paintings is of the silhouettes of trees at sunset from the patio of a house on the Mesa in Santa Barbara. The painting is 12" x 16" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap …

Story: This paintings is of the view of a winding road going notheast from Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara, viewed from the Douglas Preserve on the Mesa. The painting is 12" x 16" …

Story: This was painted in the dark depth of a cold New England basement, looking out through a window at ground level at snow on the boughs of trees and bushes, while imaging the soft golden light …

Story: This pathway runs from North Harbor Drive just north of Redondo Beach, past the Hermosa Beach Pier, 2.1 miles up to the Manhattan Beach Pier, Going north there are some amazing houses to the …

Story: The painting is of a moon rising as the sky darkens and the sun sets, with both present for just a moment in the same sky. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …

Story: There’s a tug in me toward the sleepy beach communities I grew up in, with nice but not extravagant homes in walking distance of the sand and a limitless horizon. Surfboards leaned …

Story: These trees are everywhere in Los Angeles. There are often lift trucks in the streets taking workmen up 50 to 80 feet to trim the fronds that die and fall down against the trunk, before they …

Story: I have a memory as a child of falling asleep on a towel on the sand with an umbrella shading me. I woe up and the sunset was in full color, textured and changed by seeing it through the fabric …

Story: The painting is from a scene I photographed on a walk up and over the hill to where 13th Street starts descending to the shore. This enormous laughing buddha statue was by an entry to a home, …

Story: This was inspired by a photograph of the sunset and coastline in Palos Verdes, which also caught a reflection of the colors in the windows of a house on the hill. The painting is 30" x …

Story: This was the view I had when my daughter Ash and I walked along a neighborhood road high above the coastline. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap …

Story: This is from a photograph I shot down the pier directly into the sun at sunset. The silhouette of the building at the end and the people walking out to watch the last of the sun, and the …

Story: This painting is of the lifeguard tower at 8th Street. These towers are everywhere up and down the coast of California, and I used to sit on their decks in off season, watching the waves and …

Story: This was painted from my memory of the 9th Street road as it ended at the beach. I walked by this road on the way to elementary school. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on …

Story: This painting is of the view through the window onto Manhattan Beach Blvd from the Rock N Fish restaurant at sunset. The painting is 24" x 30" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …

Story: This paintings is of a house and gate and brick walkway, but even more a painting of the statuary placed in front, a fish surfacing from the gravel in the yard and a ceramic lizard scaling the …

Story: This painting is of two surfboards left by a sandy path leading to the beach at Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara. The painting is 24" x 30" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …

Story: This painting is of a doorway on a side street off State Street in Santa Barbara, The light and the shadows of the palm tree and on the walls contrasted with the brightness of the …

Story: This painting is of Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara. This was last light. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap canvas.

Story: This painting is of the access road at 7th Street in Manhattan Beach at last light. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep gallery-wrap canvas.

Story: 4th Street was also named “Del Mar Height Blvd.” as it climbed away from Pacific Coast Highway and over the hill into vacant land beyond. At least it started out vacant. Over the …

Story: Solana Beach was the next town up the coast from Del Mar. Just north of Del Mar the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 101) moved right and away from the sandstone cliffs on the coast. This left …

Story: This came from memopries of the sound of the beach. The water washing up, the final break of the wave, then the rapid hiss of the water racing up the sand , lowing, stopping, receding back. …

Story: This sky came together at the very end. I fought with it, going back and forth, over and over until the colors suddenly popped. This is one of those paintings where the final effects seem to …

Story: The paintings is of a dirt path winding through beach grass next to a barbed-wire fence. This was a path off a dirt parking lot just south of La Jolla, off a gravel road, a street not even …

Story: The painting is of wind-blown palm trees and the buildings, residences and shops, just off the beach walk in Venice, CA. The painting is 30" x 24" acrylic on 1-1/2" deep …