Making Waves Under The Moon

Morning moonsets are just as moving as evening moonrises. An unusually fog-less morning offered up this exceptional view from Rincon.

Morning Wanderer, 8 x 16

Fun Under the Full Moon

Abiding Moon, 9 x 12, oil

 The scene: Good friends, beautiful warm evening, and a gorgeous full moon. Thanks to Bill, we were an organized group painting the Hunter's Moon as it rose over Montecito.

29 days 12 hours 44 minutes: Cupcake

There is so much to love about the moon, her beauty and magic never fail to inspire me. I patiently await the 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes between each lunar month. This Tuesday, October 9, I get to paint with some fellow lunar-loons (or shall I call us lunatics) and paint the rising full moon. Thank you Bill Hull for organizing this lunadventure!

Bill and his wife, Nancy, hosted a get together for us painters at his home over the weekend. He Martha-Stuart-ed the event by serving "Nocturne Painting Cupcakes". I sincerely hope he brings the leftovers on Tuesday night. I love the moon for it beauty and magic, but I especially love her frosted atop a cupcake.

Yum!

Paint brush and moon atop a cupcake, by the gracious Bill Hull.

Wayne Kjar Bakery

Abiding Moon, 9 x 12

The Best Days

A sunny day and an empty calendar happens to me exactly twice a year. So I have no choice when the fate aligns the conditions but to grab the opportunity and go out and paint. One such beautiful spring morning I headed out to Parma Park to paint this lush view over Montecito and Carpinteria, with just a little peak of the ocean on the right. After a very rainy winter there were wild flowers everywhere. It felt like a celebration of spring and possibility.

This painting was born to live on a lavendar wall. I hope Ruthie agrees.

Springtime Morning, Parma. 16 x 20. sold

Voyeurism or an Active Imagination

I started this painting late one night after struggling through another painting of the full moon rising behind the Santa Ynez Mountains. The moonrise painting was not a success, sometimes that happens. As I packed up my gear. I noticed this truck parked overlooking the Goleta Valley. My voyeuristic tendency revealed itself and I spied the people in the beat-up truck under the glow of the full moon and spent another two hours painting the scene. 

While packing up for the second time that evening, it occurred to me that there wasn't much going on in the truck. There was actually no one in there, and the truck was fairly new, not a ol' beater as I had imagined.

Parked, 8 x 10. Now on display at Corktree Cellars, Carpinteria

Moons in Carpinteria

December Crescent Moon, 9 x 12

On display now thru August 23 at Corktree Cellars in Carpinteria

While enjoying my moons I suggest ordering Midnight Moon, Cypress Grove to go with a glass of Savignon Blanc or a light Pinot. Just an idea.

Moons in Carpinteria

Seaward Crescent Moon, 9 x 12

On display now thru August 23 at Corktree Cellars in Carpinteria