Lost Coast Daily Painters

Mailbox is inspired by a photo I saw at MOMA in NY by Helen Levitt. She was an American photographer, particularly noted for street photogra...

This is out the front door looking southeast. I've always been interested in trees and this extended shelter at home has me looking m...

This collection of whacky goat portraits will be on display this weekend at Northcoast Open Studios June 9,10 (info below). Sometimes I just...

Northcoast Open Studios is June 1,2,3,9,10 link below. This piece was also painted at the Representational Art Leagues retreat. It was a rea...

Northcoast Open Studios is coming up June 1,2,3,9 & 10. This piece was painted during the Representational Art League’s annual retreat o...

Using my dining area and myself as model I painted this over many sessions. I did have to photograph (set camera up on tripod with time...

After months of playing with process and abstracting nature, it felt like it was time to revisit and finish up some landscapes that I had l...

I think I might have burnt a hole in my cell phone camera’s logic board trying to figure out an exposure setting for these fluorescent poppi...

For a long time, I have wanted to combine the whimsy of my earlier geometric style with painting from observation. This piece feels like an ...

For this piece I was responding to a photograph I took from a bush, on one of my daily walks. Each source seems to bring out different appr...

In this piece I am revisiting an old theme, but with a acrylic paints instead of oils. I have been trying to find a way to abstract nature t...

In my previous painting of this St John's Wort bush, I had used a lot of the painters logic that I used to use as an abstract painter, b...

I have been exploring different ways of abstracting nature lately. Trying to find my happy place. Today I have made some real inroads! It st...

In this piece, I wanted to reduce the subject down to it's most elemental shapes, circles and rectangles. This was an evolution from the...

In this piece I was playing with more organic shapes and layering. I wanted to have the piece still refer to the source, telling the story o...

Daily Paintworks fundraiser auction. 100% donation  Click to bid Oil on 12x16" panel Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria have left...

11x14 oil on canvas.  Started this painting last spring and finished with the aid of photos in the studio.

Oil on 8x10" canvas. Zebe is my friend Jill's kitty. She lived to be 18. Painting cats who've passed on is always delicate w...

Oil on 5x7" canvas Painting kitty faces is more challenging than one might think. You have to make sense of the furry features and s...

Oil on 10x10"panel. Painted on black surface is always fun, don't know why I don't do it more often. Stencils provide textur...

oil on linen panel 11 x 14....I miss life drawing.