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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the first views I painted of Laguna Beach. What stood out were the tile roofs, the bright flowers, the old hotel, and the ocean.
Seen from a spot across from the art museum. Framed in a light colored wood.

A steep roadside path parallels highway 133 as it descends Into Laguna Beach. A few tiny figures to the right and represent other painters at work at their easels. Framed in a beautiful thick black frame with gold inner lining.

The view here highlights the steepness of the
hillside at Big Bend as it rises above highway 133 with its craggy rocks and clumps of pine trees as seen in late afternoon light.

Framed in a thick black frame.

My first painting of the iconic view of Laguna Beach from Heisler Park foregrounds the beach itself surrounded by colorful sandstone walls. The town is barely visible in the distance.

Framed in a thick black frame.

study for Laguna Morning

atmospheric study of cliff faces from the beach looking north.

Framed in a beautiful silver frame.

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