Winter Twilight In Yorba Linda



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This painting is done in oil on canvas.  This painting measures 20"X24".  This view is about a half a mile from my house on the hills by my daughter's high school.  I think I made good choices in the selection of the colors I used and their relationship to each other.  "Let your idea be not that you are doing a portrait of that place but of that time of day." -Hawthorne



Setting Sun Upon the Hills

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This painting of Chino Hills State Park is one of the more dramatic paintings I have done.  The light of this late afternoon was very intense.  This painting is of a late August afternoon.  It was the dramatic contrast of the colors in the shadows and the highlights on the hills that caught my attention.  This painting is a soft pastel over a water color underpainting.  The painting measures 27"X35".



Santa Ana River

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This plein air painting is done with soft pastels on velour paper.  This painting measures 18.5"X27'.  It was a very bright morning and the trees were backlit by the morning sun.  This stretch of the river is uncontrolled by concrete and the corps of army engineers.  About a mile down stream that all changes.

Into Coal Canyon

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This painting is soft pastel over a water color underpainting.  This painting is done on Wallis sanded paper and measures 28"X35".  This painting is the first thing you see once you walk under the 91 freeway and into Coal Canyon.  I had seen this view for years as I went to work.  I did not realize it was part of Chino Hills State Park and I did not see the entrance until I had hiked along the bike trail running from Yorba Linda to Corona.  This is one of my favorite paintings out of my recent efforts. 

Sun Upon the Hills

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This pastel painting is done on Wallis sanded paper with soft pastels over a watercolor underpainting.  This painting measures 25"X  37".   This painting is from a late afternoon hike throught Chino Hills State Park.  The shadows were growing longer by the minute and the sun was blazing on the steep face of the eroded hill in front of me.