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"Unbound" 5x7 Male figure seen from behind Urban landscape painting

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas panel
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Man is unbound, yet the limitations imposed on him are growing bigger, social conditioning and strict rules of movement in a world where the man stopped following the given guidelines and got lost on the way, he ignored the signs and got cast away from the tribe.
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"Sidewalk shadows" 5x7 LA Urban Plein Air Landscape painting

5 x 7 inch Oil on canvas panel
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I did this small study on the hot sidewalks of West La, you would think that there won't be much activity on Sunday but you'd be wrong, occasionally dog walkers were blocking my view cause there's plenty of them but I was able to pull off a quick study before the day ended.
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"2:36pm" 6x8 Urban landscape with a female figure Oil painting

6 x 8 inch Oil on canvas panel

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I started this painting earlier but it needed more work since there was a lot going on in the background, there's some palette knife on the left that was needed to make an even bigger contrast distinction between the lights and the darks, direct sunlight creates dramatic play between these polarities, so around this particular time is the result that came to life in form of a painting.
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"West Los Angeles afternoon" 4x6 inch Plein air landscape Oil on canvas

4" x 6" Oil on canvas

These urban scenes always catch my eye for the different color temperatures and the combination of organic shapes and man made structures, straight lines versus the natural curves.
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Class Demo - Still Life with a mango and cup

9" x 12" Oil on canvas
This is a quick demo that I did for one of my private classes I teach, when working with the student I try to emphasize the importance of recognizing values properly and color identification.
If you want to purchase this painting its available for $200 + $5 shipping, the painting comes unstretched.

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"Fireman's ridge" 8x10 California Plein air landscape oil painting - Available

8" x 10" Oil on canvas on panel
This is a plein air study that I did yesterday on location in the Brentwood hills, this ridge is around an old fireman's road that's not in use anymore, on the south it overlooks LA and the north is facing the mountains, it was pretty windy painting there so I had to hold my easel at times so it wouldn't go where it shouldn't.

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L.A. Times #2 - Daily Oil Painting Man Figure

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Traffic cityscape oil painting

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My main goal in this painting was movement and light, I think the flow of traffic is a good subject for this particular idea since its constantly moving, the gas from the cars creates hazines around them and I always get the same question in my head when I observe this kind of a scene, ...where are we going?
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Stairway/Alleyscape #2 - Los Angeles cityscape painting

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"Stairway/Alleyscape #2" 5"x7" Oil on Canvas Panel

Painting Urban Landscapes is a specific experience, not like painting usual landscape since you can feel the air and aroma of the city, I was painting this one on location in L.A. alley trying to follow the constantly moving shadows from the houses and small buildings, their shape and lenght is changing according to the sun's movement making my job much harder, this scene is a close up of an alley that connects one of the streets in L.A.
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Between The Lines

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"Between The Lines" 5" x 7" Oil on Canvas on Panel
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Ever wondered how everything around you just dissolves while you are reading a book and you are totally absorbed within the lines, since your whole attention is there it's like you are a part of a different reality, the reality of the book that you are reading.

Access Point

"Access Point" 5" x 7" Oil on Canvas Panel
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This is where the actual Santa Monica Mountains start, slowly building towards higher grounds covering large portions of land in and outside Los Angeles.

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Downhill Alley

"Downhill Alley" 5" x 7" Oil on Canvas Panel

This is one the Alleyways that connect smaller streets to each other, they tend to have a spirit of their own since they are not overcrowded with people usually, also the close relation of the small buildings and houses create a certain tension thats very specific for this places.
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Alleyscape #7 West Los Angeles cityscape painting

"Alleyscape #7" 9" x12" Oil on Canvas

Sunlit Los Angeles Alleyway, the composition is focusing on perspective here and the dark and light play thats formed from the buildings.

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Stairway #2

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"Stairway #2" 5" x7" Oil on Canvas Panel
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I'm always looking for places that inspire me, certain buildings, alleys or houses and this one caught my atention with the stairs and the way it was designed, fully lit by the sun and the strict shadows forming rhytm patterns.

Los Angeles Alleyscape #2

"Los Angeles Alleyscape" 9" x 12" Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas,
Auction starts @ 8.00.pm Pacific Time.
As promised, here's the second Alleyway that I did, a slightly larger piece then the previous one and more dynamic in the composition and perspective.

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The Yellow House

"The Yellow House" 6" x 8" Oil on Canvas Panel,

I saw this house nearby where I live and I was drawn by its color intensity as sunlight falls on it, so I knew I had to paint it, the result is this, a full of life colorful little oil painting with an almost Impressionist feel for color.

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Alleyscape #8

"Alleyscape #8" 9" x 12" Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas,

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Uphill Alleyscape #3

"Uphill Alleyscape #3" 5" x 7" Oil on Canvas Panel,

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The latest Alleyway painting from my cityscapes series, haven't done one in a while, I'm glad gettin back to this theme and exploring the light and shadows in these alleys.
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"Doorway"

"Doorway" (Los Angeles Cityscape) 7" x 5" Oil on Canvas panel,

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The Rooftops of Los Angeles

"The Rooftops of Los Angeles" 9" x 12" Oil on Canvas,
From my L.A. Cityscape series. I was exploring the light falling over the roofs of the buildings in this one, I like how the actual buildings and houses merge into each other and form a somewhat abstract unity, I've used stronger colors in this cityscape.