LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA

14 x 18

oil/canvas board/framed

$300

Earlier this year my husband and I visited Southern California with several missions in mind.  First, I took a wonderful workshop with Leslie Saeta in Pasadena.  Loved it!!  After the workshop we drove south to Yorba Linda to spend some time with our daughter and her family.  A few days with our very active, very chatty and very darling little granddaughter, I remembered why women have babies when they're young!!!  We, of course, wouldn't have traded a minute of our time there.

Next we decided to just get in the car and 'go'.  No plan, just drive and stop wherever and whenever we spotted something wonderful to see or do.  Of course that included lots of time in Laguna Beach (where we lived for several years, and for me, miss it terribly), visiting our old house a block from the beach sniff sniff and just luxuriating in Laguna and all its beauty.  So many artists have painted so many paintings of Laguna and it's pretty obvious why.  Everywhere you turn is something great to paint!  

Driving further south, stopping to eat at some of our favorite places and to take pictures along Coast Highway, we arrived in La Jolla about mid-afternoon.  The sun was high in the sky, the weather was, well, perfect, the smell of the ocean filled the air and I was in artist heaven!  This photo is one of millions (!) that I took in La Jolla, so there'll be more to come!  Stay tuned!!!

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NAPA  SUNSET

12 x 24

oil/stretched canvas/framed

$300

I took this photo from the front porch of the house we were using in Napa, CA.  There were four wonderful, black rockers on the massive front porch, facing out over rows and rows of grapevines.  The grapevines didn't photograph well and it was the time of year when there were no grapes as yet, so it was better to leave that area unadorned and focus on the amaaaazing hills across the way.

The sun was setting behind the house and had gone down low enough to shade the space leading up the hills, so while the sun was still illuminating the red-rock cliffs and bright green rolling hills, the contrasts were wonderful. Every time I look at this it takes me right back to that front porch, sitting with my husband and our friends enjoying a great glass of wine (what else would one drink in Napa?!?!), perfect weather, lots of laughs and dreams of spending much more time in Napa/Sonoma.

CARIBOU CROSSING

8 x 16

oil on stretched canvas, framed

private collection

These guys are pretty amazing in that they SWIM and HIKE some 7000 miles EACH YEAR to get to the feeding/mating grounds they enjoy.  Is that determination or what?  I certainly hope it's worth it!!!

I had fun painting this a couple of years ago.  It's been in my husband's office since then and he's been hard-pressed to think of parting with it.  But he's 're-doing' his office and I hi-jacked it when he wasn't looking!!  I think it's high-time for someone else to enjoy these fellas, so I hope you like the painting as much as, well, you know who!!

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Maui Green Sea Turtle

9 x 12

oil on canvas panel

SOLD

Well, after painting my 'lemons' and taking a little time off during the holidays, I couldn't wait to get back to painting what I love the most.....underwater in Hawaii!!  Actually, I love painting anything in/from Hawaii!!  This guy was larger than the baby one I had painted earlier and was just a magnificent specimen  of these wonderful creatures.  Isn't it amazing to look at something like this and realize that it is, indeed, prehistoric?  What a treat to experience firsthand.

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