Sugar Tree and Monarck butterflies

Inspired by my visit to SJC Mission today and the monarch butterflies flying around the gorgeous garden there, I painted this painting in acrylic on a 24x24x 1 1/2 canvas and called it  "The Sugar Tree".

SJC Swallow

The San Juan Capo Swallows usually come once a year around 20th of March.  Some of them stay behind and hang out around the Mission.  Here's one that I saw today enjoying the grapes that grow there.

Here's a quick painting of it today, in 3 minutes.  Acrylic on watercolor paper, makes it permanent.

Friendly Hum

An acrylic on a 24x24x1 1/2 gallery wrap canvas.

I got up one morning itching to paint the image that came to me during the night before.  Had to be recorded somehow, I felt like working with acrylics and here's the result.

Distant view of Dana Point

This painting is the result of a leisurely drive along the PCH.  When I got to the Camino San Clemente intersection, noticed those gorgeous palm trees visible in front of a faint image of Dana Point in the distance.

This painting was done in liquid acrylics.  20x16 on yupo.

Silver Fish

I used liquid acrylics on a previously  poured on water colors, a mixed media on 16x20 Archie's watercolor paper.  A successful experimentation, it worked!

Love it myself, if I may say so!  Gives me a sense of peace and calm.

Humming birds on Local Flowers

Watercolor on rice paper matted arts.

Here I have a hummingbird  on cannas and one on poppies.

Above and Bellow

More on animals:  Eagle soaring above us and Fish swimming bellow.

Both are done in acrylics, different techniques.

 

Rooster on Geode

Gouache on yupo gives that freedom to me to created effects like this.  A bit short of 20x16.

Some Happy Fish

Coys of the Mission.  Gouache on watercolor paper.  8x10, matted and framed under non glare glass.

Asian Brush Painting of a single fish in ink on rice paper mounted on an abstract background in acrylic.  12x12.

And this one is just Gouche on Yupo using the primary colors.  10x12.

More Asian Brush Paintings

Birdie

One just wants to paint every one of those darling birds around here.  Such brilliant colors on such humble looking birds.  They are every where, you just have to gaze into some bushes or trees and there they are!

This one is a 20x20x1 1/2 work in oil on gallery wrapped canvas.

Yes, it's been a while!  I miss working in oils and every now and then I'm drawn to it, less than I desire but what can you do when you react to the smell of oil even though I never use toxic thinners and such.

Resiliency

The colorful clouds in the sky around San Juan Capo and San Clemente and pretty much most areas  along PCH are mind boggling these days.  A magnificent tapestry of every color in the spectrum creates scenes that are breathtaking.  Add some palms to it and.......

This one is a 30x40x1 1/2 acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas.

Matilla Poppies

14x11, acrylics on canvas, a more contemporary look of those gorgeous Matilla Poppies, also known as Matilda.

Hummingbird and Matillas

A 14x11 on watercolor paper. 

These gorgeous humming birds hang out around those brilliant white flowers with a magnificent center.   They grow around the Cottage Gallery on Los Rios at spring time.  Some people know them as "Matilda".  What ever we call them,  they are surely magnificent wild flowers related to Poppy family.

San Clemente Pier

I gave this painting a new look, combining regular gradation and my pouring technique, creating a touch of abstraction and innovation. Surreal maybe!  I'm very satisfied with it, yeah!

Oh, you should see this painting up close! It's a 16x20 canvas.

Same painting, framed: