Although this painting still represents Coyote Hills, it was the last canvas painted in this series and the most literal. The view across a somewhat open field to a settlement with houses and a barn. A large group of trees marks the middle ground, while in the distance rises a profile of the hills. The sloping range of clouds was painted as a contrast to the serenity of the rest of the scene.

Based on drawings done at site. The aim here was to use traditional observation to record a brightly lit street scene with some rich color and strong values.

The Family.
Painted in Monroe, La. in 1967, this painting won an honorable mention that year
In Beaumont, Texas. It shows my family - first wife Gail, and daughter Julie - at the zoo in a simple Pop art style. Framed in a dark brown wood.

A well worn subject. I admired the way Manet and others painted the floral still life and made it fresh every time. For me capturing the changing light was the key to success here.

This white tower is one of several older
structures to be found at the Fullerton Arboretum. It stands along an unpaved road
close by the Victorian house - now called the
“Hermitage House”. Partially hidden in a grove
of trees the tower seems an unusual building
in a domestic context. It may have been a water tower; it’s rectangular design and exterior stairs may have been added later
to harmonize the building with its neighbor.
In painting it I stressed the strong contrast between the white rectangle and the dark organic shapes that surrounded it.

Crystal Cove is a small painting which takes as its subject several buildings from the beach at
Crystal Cove and adds a pair of surfers in the foreground.

Framed in a white colored frame.

Framed in a light colored wood.

Black rocks protruding into the ocean on a cloudy morning.

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Selah Hennesy Collection

A quiet place to paint in Fullerton is the Arboretum on the campus of California State University. This bent tree with its garlands of leaves growing in a field of poppies caught my attention. I liked the pairing of the old, twisted tree and the fresh grass. The weather was warm and sunny, a fine day to be painting outside along with other members of the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association. After some awkward sketches in which I tried to accommodate the twisted tree to the rectangle of the canvas, I decided to
focus on the base of the tree. I saw that the mass of trees receding behind it
provided a perfect counterpoint to the bending trunk in the foreground. In so doing the tree’s position in the composition seemed resolved. Framed in a thick black frame.

Framed in a light colored wood.

Glare from the noonday sun in winter made me squint to paint this scene just below the Muth Center at Upper Newport Bay.

Selah Hennesy Collection

Bluffs on the west side of Back Bay in early morning light.

Collection: Jim and Andrea Dietze

Second version of the cottages in San Juan Capistrano

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collection: Jenna Harris

The Back Bay from the Muth Center at low tide. The geometric lines of channels crossing the marsh make me think of Peru's Nazca lines where patterns on the desert floor were once thought to be landing strips for UFOs.

Jim and Andrea Dietze collection

Casper Wilderness Park, Ortega Highway.

Framed in a thick black frame.

collection: Jim and Andrea Dietze

One of my many paintings recording the appearance of this iconic Southern California beach, with its rocky coast, its every changing shoreline, and its deep blue water. The grassy slope in the center supports a grove of trees and a pair of small buildings painted red. On a clear day the town of Laguna Beach would be visible beyond the outcropping of rocks in the upper right hand corner.

Upper Newport Bay with shadows staring to turn violet in the late afternoon light.

Alan Tapley collection

One of several paintings on this theme. This one shows more of the canyon's floor than most. The basic structure of these Coyote Hills paintings , is two crossing slopes of rocky outcroppings, the right one bathed in the afternoon sunlight, the left one in the shadow.

collection Julie

Pink and blue clouds float above the darkening mountains seen from a local park. Darker values of blue and green represent the hillside while a receding brown diagonal path crosses the foreground of the scene.

Sandy Cooper collection

Collection: Gia Harris and Tim Gettys

Inspired by Hopper New England coastal scenes, I reshaped the central rocks in a Hopper seascape to take the shape of Mickey. The interconnected dark values join together to become the familiar profile shape of the Mouse's head.

Painted at Nix Nature Center off Hwy 133 above Laguna Beach.

Collection: Gia Harris and Tim Gettys

From Tradewinds Lane just off Irvine Ave the view of Upper Newport Bay is striking. The dark ground cover contrast with the silky blond Pampas grass and the golden marshes below on a late afternoon at Upper Newport Bay.

Looking north from the park at Trump golf course

Collection: David and Marcia Tungate

Marsh grasses and sandstone bluffs seen on a slightly hazy morning at Newport Harbor's Back Bay. An interesting challenge to created a simple but evocative composition.

View of Palm trees looking north from Heisler Park at Laguna Beach.

atmospheric study of cliff faces from the beach looking north.

Framed in a beautiful silver frame.

from Red Rock Serenade

Catch the reflection before the wind comes up, you have to work quickly and remember what you saw. I got down the essentials of this scene in a hurry. Then worked to get the rest at a more leisurely pace.

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View from Heisler Park, Laguna Beach. Photographs helped me to establish the intricate pattern of waves on the beach.

Julie Collection

Dr. Steven Richardson collection

collection Sung Kim

Summer in California. Dry orange grass shades to mauve; scrub foliage stays green: a marriage of seductive coloring and a sculptured landscape beneath a hazy sky.

Julie collection

These picturesquely eroded cliffs mark the Western edge of the still undeveloped wildlife corridor known as Coyote Hills. Sadly, in spite of efforts to preserve this wild area, it may be soon overtaken by a housing development.

Collection: Fullerton Collegge

Julie Tapley collection

George and Katherine (Betsy Gable family)

A trail meanders through dry yellow oragne meadows winding towards a screen of purple-violet trees. A late winter afternoon view of Clark Park.

Collection: Fullerton College

Collection: Gia Harris

Collection Julie

"Can I compare thee to a summer's day" - just about sums it up. collection Maria Bjorkman

Julie collection

collection Julie

collection: Lindsay and Cynthia Hoyt

On a late summer afternoon, I sketched this scene of an artist painting "en plein air".

Collection: Gia Harris and Tim Gettys

Collection: Gia Harris and Tim Gettys

collection: Selah Hennesy

Julie collection

Julie collection

Light on shrubs and houses on Tiffany Place Neighborhood created magic feeling.

collection: Jim and Andrea Dietze

This painting shows Coyote Hills Park, a small urban neighborhood park in Fullerton - not to be confused with the nearby much larger wilderness area of eroded cliffs know as Coyote Hills. The present view shows a few houses across the park seen through a screen of Eucalyptus trees.

A display of Fall color as the green leaves turn yellow and red. Another scene from Clark Park.

Capturing the effect of the changing color of the leaves as well as the contrasting colors of tree trunks provide the interest for me in this small celebration of Fall. Painted at Clark Regional Park, Fullerton.

Painted in morning light over a three day period from the last parking space at Clark park, the eroded mud of West Coyote Hills shows in the distance.

Collection: Tom Stark