La Mesa Dawn
I am an early riser. Like 4:30 A.M. It gives me time to sip my coffee, lounge around a little before...

This is an untitled piece I never liked that much, but several people have told me what they like about it - the subtle way the golds and greens are reflected across the river, the fine lines in the rocks reminiscent of Pitre, the talk of spring and mist and fog and newness.
Why it has escaped the purging bonfires, and why I keep it, is if you haven't noticed, many of my paintings are completed on New Years Day, year after year. This, I think, is the earliest of those, painted on New Years Day 1993. I'm not sure why I'm always painting on New Years Day but happy that I am.
I am an early riser. Like 4:30 A.M. It gives me time to sip my coffee, lounge around a little before...
There’s something about the dry air and raw emptiness of the desert that I’ve always lov...
It was an unusually cold San Diego New Years Day in 2017. Yes, I know we’re spoiled, but still...
I have never really been drawn to creating landscape paintings. I do them now and then but it always...