Beautiful Autumn near Batiquitos Lagoon and Moonlight Beach- Encinitas, CA

Onshore winds- Seabluffe- Leucadia, CA

Batiquitos Lagoon Inlet/ Highway 101, CA

Dusk at Moonlight Beach, Encinitas, CA

Eucalyptus and Palm- Batiquitos Lagoon, CA

Apple Pie Ranch, Big Sur, CA

Quick sketch in a small book.  

Apple Pie Ranch is a mountain top retreat above Big Sur with amazing 360 degree views of canyon, valley and ocean. This is the pool and small portion of the gardens.

Arrived at Leucadia

Just arrived and will start painting tomorrow.  Here are three paintings from a previous visit.

 Oceanside Beach Stairs

 Swami's Overlook

Torrey Pines Adobe

Aquarelle show at Alpine Gallery

I have a few pieces in the Aquarelle show at Alpine Gallery. 430 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT

It is nice to be in an all watercolor show!
The larger exhibit of my work at Harmon's City Creek is still up for another week or so.

Leucadia, CA

Three looser and larger sketches observing tree forms at Batiquitos Lagoon and Seabluffe. Opaque watercolors on Canson paper. 14" x 20"

North shore of Batiquitos Lagoon

South shore of Batiquitos Lagoon

Looking south from Seabluffe

My Springtime Florals Exhibit!

Just finished helping hang 21 of my landscapes for a "Springtime" show at Harmon's City Creek- downtown Salt Lake City. It will be up until the end of May! Come check it out!

Red Butte Gardens

Springtime at Red Butte Gardens on campus at University of Utah.

Thanksgiving Sketches in Death Valley and Oceanside

Family camping in Death Valley for Thanksgiving and had just enough time for a single sketch at Death Valley Scotty's Castle. Then off to Southern California and had the opportunity for one more sketch at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside.

Daybreak paintout event

I completed these paintings in preparation for the event mentioned in the last post.  It was glorious weather that day and I have been asked to paint at another event on Sat. Oct. 26 in Layton, UT.  It is an Open House for Destination Homes.
Looking forward to painting on that site!

North Beach looking toward Harriman

Daybreak Visitors Center

Oquirrh Mountain LDS Temple at edge of Daybreak

Daybreak, UT

I've been asked to "enhance" a real estate event at the planned community development called Daybreak.  I'll be onsite painting in the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2013.  Rain or shine, (shine I hope) at the new North Beach area.

I've done some advance scoping out of locations and painted this in preparation.

Along the West Coast

Visiting family and friends I didn't get a lot of painting time but did do these four. Quick, small, and using an absorbent paper.  All scenes near our kid's homes.

Old Scotch Church, Hillsboro, OR

Farm Fields, Hillsboro, OR

 Glen Park Neighborhood, San Francisco, CA

Garden View from "The Establishment" SLO, CA

Oakley, Idaho, my hometown

I've been to Idaho twice this month to help my parents and a brother ran the "Spud Man" triathalon.  I didn't have time to paint but decided to post these 4 small paintings from earlier trips. Oakley, my little hometown is such a formative part of me that I can drive around remembering many events from my childhood. These are from Oakley and nearby towns.

Oakley Cemetery

Oakley Granary

Shoshone Falls, Twin Falls

Snake River Valley, Burley

Tour in Upper Midwest

Just returned from an Upper Midwest Tour singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  What a great week and a half! 6 concerts in 5 states. We had some personal time between concerts, sound checks and bus rides to explore. I had time to do some quick watercolors.

Indianapolis War Memorials

Indianapolis Canal Walk

Schaumburg (outside Chicago)

Milwaukee (Hilton Lobby)

Minneapolis- Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden

Friends caught me painting during time off.

May sketches at Leucadia

Had another chance to go to Leucadia, California.  Here are two quick sketches focusing on the the relationship of architecture and trees.  The third is a section of succulent garden I've planted which imitates a coral reef.  It was started outdoors and finished in the studio.  Looser outdoors, then it got tighter in the studio.  That is the nature of taking a painting indoors.

A Spring Break near the beach

An escape from the snow and smog and I got to paint-out with an old college roommate, Ken Harris.
I stopped at the Cajon Pass on my way to CA for a few hours and found myself at "Mormon Rocks".

Ken (seen in silhouette) and I painted above Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, CA.

An overcast sky at the edge of the ocean gave a chance for a moody simple landscape at the Batiquitos Lagoon Trail, Carlsbad, CA.

Morro Bay, CA

An Autumn trip to the California coast gave me a chance to do a sketch at Morro Bay.

In post tourist season, things were very quiet.

7"x 9" on Handmade Indian Paper

Finished the "12 Gardens at Temple Square" Series

I finished the "12 Gardens At Temple Square"  Here are 3.  I painted them out of order since I didn't get one painted every month and filled in blanks over the past year and a half.  Originally I was painting gardens on and around Temple Square, then thought of Hokusai's "36 views of Mt. Fuji" and narrowed the parameters of my self assignment to include the central building of Temple Square in each painting.   I have plans to do various gardens now in the area without the inclusion of the temple.