Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Figures at Crystal Cove
oil/canvas
18" x 24"
$400.00

The scene represents a trio of bathers who are at a bench shaded by an umbrella (unseen) perhaps playing cards. The striped umbrellas and the tall building in the distance identify the scene as Crystal Cove on the California-coast (freely interpreted). The painting came about as an attempt to capture the brilliant late afternoon light coming off the sea as it strikes a complex scene.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Crystal Cove
oil/canvas
12" x 12"
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Crystal Cove Beach Houses
oil/canvas
12" x 13"
$400.00
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Laguna Beach #3
oil/canvas
11" x 14"
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Beach Scene Crystal Cove
oil/canvas
12" x 13"
$400.00
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Crystal Cove #2
oil/canvas
12" x 12"
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Laguna Beach
oil/canvas
16" x 20"
$400.00

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.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Palm Trees
oil/canvas
14" x 11"
$400.00

The trees are made up of strongly contrasting patches of color and form a diagonal movement into depth. While that and the diminished size of the trees sets up a movement in one direction; white waves both parallel and oppose the direction of the palm trees to create some visual energy.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
South of Laguna Beach
oil/canvas
14" x 16"
$400.00

A rocky point with a few trees, warm sands, a distant cape. This view is much the same along the coast of Orange County, Southern California's beaches are among the best. The light is constantly changing to the painter's frustration.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Palm Trees at Hesler Park
oil/canvas
14" x 11"
$400.00

Seen from a height, the viewer looks down on a pair of palm trees and the rocky coast around which the ocean swirls.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
View of Hessler Park, Laguna Beach
oil/canvas
16" x 20"
$400.00

One of my more successful attempts to capture the movement of the ocean north of Hessler Park at Laguna Beach. Painting a moving landscape is one of the hardest things I have attempted. I started this painting, as I often do, with a small pencil drawing which demonstrated the opposing directions of the palm trees and the incoming waves along the curving beach.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/ canvas
Laguna Beach View
oil/ canvas
18 x 14
$400.00

Framed in a light colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil on panel
Big Bend Laguna
2016
oil on panel
12 x 12"
$400.00

Framed in a beautiful thick black frame with gold inner lining.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/panel
Purple Shadows - Big Bend Laguna Beach
oil/panel
19" x 19"
$400.00

Purple hills over yellow field.

Framed in a thick black frame.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil on panel
Sold DotLaguna Morning # 1
2016
oil on panel
11" x !4"
$400.00

Looking South from Heisler park soon after the morning fog had lifted.

Framed in a thick black frame.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil on paper
Laguna Point study
oil on paper
9" x 12"
$400.00

study for Laguna Morning

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil on panel
Bright Sand, Bare Rocks, Laguna Beach
2015
oil on panel
11" x 14"
$400.00

atmospheric study of cliff faces from the beach looking north.

Framed in a beautiful silver frame.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/panel
Red Beach house, Crystal Cove
2015
oil/panel
10 x12
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Big Bend Laguna Beach
oil/canvas
12" x 16"
$400.00
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove oil/canvas
Big Bend Laguna Beach #2
oil/canvas
16" x 20"
$400.00

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Laguna Beach & Crystal Cove 0il/canvas
Yellow House. Crystal Cove
0il/canvas
14 x 16
$400.00

Framed in a beautiful thick black frame with a gold inner lining.