Title

Balboa Park Museum of Us (gift)

Size

11x15

Price

NFS

At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022.

Title

Tectonic Uplift (gift)

Size

15x22

Price

NFS

Painted from a photograph taken at dawn at the top of a hill near the Cowles Mountain, the highest elevation in San Diego. A passer-by said, 'tectonic uplift' as the answer to a question raised by my grandson: how did the rocks get up here? Needless to say, I began an intense study of the geology of the region (emphasis on began). Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics. See Wikipedia for much more detail and explanation. Fascinating. Painted on Arches watercolor paper, rough, 300 lb.(gift to family)

Title

Lake Murray Trail (gift)

Size

15x22 (half-sheet)

Price

NFS (yet)

Continuing my watercolors while in San Diego. I took photos of the scene just after dawn. I discovered this walkway at the top of a hill overlooking the lake. i shall return and hike down it a bit. At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022. (gift)

Title

Central Park 1 (gift)

Size

22x15

Price

NFS

Version 1. Nostalgic scene lf Central Pak with a bridge representing the passage of time. Based on a sketch by Thomas Schaller. I would like to redo this to bring out the stone of the bridge (schist) and to delineate the Plaza Hotel more. At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022. (gift to family)

Title

Rose (gift)

Size

8x6

Price

NFS

My grandson asked me to paint the beautiful red rose blooming in my San Diego airbnb. I gave it to him for his 13th birthday.

Title

Bridge-Schaller-Demo (gift)

Size

15x22 (half-sheet)

Price

Painted from the Power of Design Demo by Thomas Schaller. At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022. (gift to family)

Title

March On Chambers Street (after Thomas Schaller) Gift.

Size

22x15

Price

NFS

During the 70s we lived in a loft on Chambers Street in TriBeca, whille I was in graduate school in Mathematics (a 20 minute walk up to the Village). These were turbulent times. When I saw Thomas Schaller's Chambers St painting, I knew this was the right place to start. I love his work and hope to learn a lot from his videos and artwork - perhaps even from classes, as I begin my watercolor journey again. I changed the details a bit, trying to create peace marchers rather than suit-folk. This thn will remind me of the times we hosted marches on City Hall, protesting the War in Vietnam. We would leave the loft and march down Chambers Street to Broadway, and from there a few blocks south to City Hall. At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022. Gift to family.

Title

Diablo Canyon Evening (2022 LCCF)

Size

12x16

Price

$800

See the LCCF post under the Exhibitions on this site. Diablo Canyon will be in the Art Sale on June 25. For inquiries, write karen.halbert@gmail.com

Title

Aspen Fusion (GIFT)

Size

9x12 (framed 13x16)

Price

NFS

From my imagination but only after studying my Aspens and the aspens up at the Santa Fe Ski Slope. See Aspen paintings - studio and plein air. Palette Knife only. The painting seems to illustrate a type of fusion of the sun with the aspens.

Title

Chamisa Fields (2022 LCCF)

Size

8x16

Price

$550

See the LCCF Art Sale June 25, 2022 post under the Exhibitions on this site. En plein air in Nambe facing the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. For inquiries, write karen.halbert@gmail.com

Title

Lake Murray, San Diego Water Works I (gift)

Size

10x14

Price

NFS

After 'erasing' with the Mr Clean magic eraser to get back to the white of the paper, added back some blue and made other small adjustments. But I found that the eraser had left dots of paper so that the painted result does not look clean. It might be that I have to be more careful to eliminate some of the leftover eraser bits. I suspected that this technique might not work. I will just have to be even more careful to leave the white of the paper where it should be white, I need to be more patient. Now that I am studying this painting I can see that perhaps I could erase some of the dark patch in the sky on the lower right. Gift to family.

Title

Gray and Blue Lake Murray (gift)

Size

10x14

Price

NFS

Painted with my mixed Paynes' Gray: Cobalt Blue and Ivory Black, varying the proportions for the clouds and the water. Initial paper was very wet. First stokes were added wet-in-wet. Waited for the paper to dry a little before adding distant hills and then the foreground spits of land. And the tree was painted when the paper had dried, with splatter for the leaves. Added Burnt Sienna for a little added color in the foliage, hills and foreground. I again tried not to go over anything (except the foreground where I added darks and accents).. Not quite there yet. Watch this space for a new version. Arches 300 pound paper. I'm anxious to try gum arabic that I've ordered. The granulation will be more pronounced. I added the reflections on the left too soon and lost the quality of the original layer of water in that area. I tried hard to save the whites. At my family's San Diego home, selected by the family from a series painted during the winter of 2022.(gift to family)