Plein air lanscape paintings from Santa Barbara and beyond…
10×20″ Casein– This was a casein study from a sandbar in Rocky Nook Park– Families with kids were wading up the creek and one twelve-year-old artist sat and watched and talked with me for a long time as I worked, just as I used to do when I was his age and saw someone out painting.
I saw my box of casein paints lying around and realized I haven’t used them for a while. It is a quick and easy way for me to get outdoors and paint… my casein set-up weighs about ten pounds (lightweight cardboard and aluminum easel and all) while my oil painting gear is much heavier.
Grey Day on the San Marcos Preserve– 10×20″
Bee Hives and Human Hives– 10×20″
10×20″ Acrylic and Casein– Spring is springing in Pinnacles National Park. The California Condors are nesting up canyon from this area– it was my first time seeing their incredible 9 foot wingspan in the wild.
10×20″ Acrylic and Casein– This is a painter’s paradise… I’ll have to go back with a few miles of canvas some day. 
10×20″ Acrylic and Casein– The seagulls here enjoy bobbing and surfing the spot where the freshwater creek pours into the salty ocean. 
10×20″ Acrylic and Casein– Everybody who would come out at the top of the trail to greet this view would gasp in awe… You can pretty much see the entire Pacific Ocean from this lupine-filled perch. 
10×20″ Acrylic and Casein– My family sketched and played in the redwoods as I painted this enchanted cascade on McWay Creek in Julia Pfeifer Burns State Park last week. Such a beautiful place… every turn on the trail was a painting waiting to be made. 
I have been working on canvas with acrylic a lot lately and forgot how fun it is to do smaller pieces like these in casein… I love this paint– opaque, vibrant colors, durability and permanence and it smells good. 
More Mesa Expanse– 10×20″
Gold Light on the Trail– 11×14″
