As you can see, this landscape painter does love painting the ocean and lately I can't get enough of it. Guess it's more than simply the time of year, which is picture perfect! I really do love the ocean and how it is constantly changing.

A while back the manager of a large local retail place called Pangaea Outpost invited me to exhibit some prints of my paintings, and they have been well received. So the big news is that I'm getting my own gallery space as of February 5th or so.

It's hard to explain the concept of Pangaea, and to say it's a "mall" with 50 different vendors really doesn't give it its due. There's a lot of quality art and gifts at Pangaea and I have liked shopping there for bithday and holiday presents. Here are some pictures so you can get the idea.

Pangaea Outpost
909A Garnet Ave
San Diego, CA 92109
(858) 581-0555

Anyway the thought is to have a place to show my seascapes and sunsets... Pangaea is one block from the beach so it seems a natural fit. Plus, Pangaea does all the packing and shipping! Did I mention that I dislike packing and shipping large paintings in the extreme?

Bottom line? If you see a painting here larger than 11 by 14 inches it's probably at Pangaea. So just email me if you aren't in San Diego and we can get the ball rolling to make that painting find its way to your wall;)

Yeah, OK, I'm guilty! If this landscape painter gets into a subject it's easy for me to become obsessed by it. And right now I'm completely obsessed by the ocean. So unlike me because it's usually the mountains and oaks that have my attention and paintbrush... but not right now.

A couple of artists I know discussed this recently: an artist's obsession with a thing and the compulsion to dig deeper and deeper into it. I think that this phenomenon is true for many kinds of artists such as writers and sculptors as well as painters. You want to explore deeply any subject that fascinates you. From the outside it sure looks like obsession.

Here are the results of recent efforts and as you can plainly see they are all sunsets. And right you are... no titles as of yet. I am so bad with titles!!!

11 by 14, oil on canvas

16 by 20 inches, oil on canvas

18 by 24 inches, oil on canvas

12 by 24, oil on canvas

It's beautiful weather here on the left coast and so I'm out looking at the waves and the winter light. Or at least that's my excuse for lounging at the beach now;)

No, seriously, I'm working... hard! Just to prove it here are three new ocean paintings... and I have another even larger on the easel almost completed.

11 by 14 inches, oil on canvas

12 by 36 inches, oil on canvas

16 by 20 inches, oil on canvas

This landscape painter is not one for New Year's resolutions... sets me up for too much failure;) But how can one not feel the fresh start start aspect to the days now? So I spent a little time yesterday drawing the bones of this composition. Yes, it's from a photo and some sketches: too cold to stand out there at the moment.

Mostly I jump in and paint in the dark values but yesterday the mood was for my 6B graphite pencil. Next the spray fixative goes on and then the paint comes out. Can't wait to squeeze out the paint on a clean palette and jump in! Nothing more exciting that fresh paint ready to go. I'll try to remember to post some progress images but if it goes fast, well, who knows if I'll remember! You get caught up in the moment of painting and one thing leads to the other and , WOOSH, it's all but done. Honest, I'll try to remember:)

9 by 12 inches, graphite on canvas: state 1.