How the barber shop has changed. Welcome to the 21st. This painting is based on a barber shop on 4th St. in downtown San Rafael CA – The Shop. 36″x48″ oil on canvas.

Gnoss Field Novato

General Douglas MacArthur Tunnel San Francisco on approach to the Golden Gate Bridge northbound. (General MacArthur and Jim share the same birthplace Little Rock Arkansas.) 30″x40″ Oil on canvas.

Downtown San Anselmo.

Cafe at Night. This canvas has a convoluted year long history. The canvas itself began as an underpainting for a red and white Volkswagen bus. Jim wasn’t happy with the red on the bus panels and it became the first canvas he painted over. On a sunny day while his wife was in an appointment nearby February 2016 Jim sat and read and photographed inside the Duboce Park Cafe San Francisco. It was the yellow chair in the foreground that became the focus of the Cafe painting. The painting was finished by April but there was still a sense that there was something missing. During the fall of 2016 Jim revisited the painting and began to experiment with a red ketchup bottle on the nearest table. This felt better. Soon there was a second bottle and then a third. The “scars” left by the Volkswagen bus are still visible on the canvas. 24×36 oil on canvas.

Based on Spider Murphy’s Tattoo parlor in downtown San Rafael CA. More than two dozen photos and numerous visits to the location day and night and in the rain were used as references to create this impression.

After Crown Point Press Gallery SF. A tribute to Wayne Thiebaud

1964 Porsche parked in downtown San Anselmo CA on a winter night February 2016. Jim took a series of photos at eight o’clock on a Friday night. He began the painting at 4 am the next morning. 24×36 oil on canvas.