Blue Casita is a painting in my California Series of a house I saw in Southern California with colors and textures that to me typify the Southwest.  I selected this scene in part for the vibrant colors — the deep blue walls, the lighter blue eaves, the red flowers on the vines, the reddish-orange roof tiles, and the multi-colored wall decorations.  But most of all, I chose this as a subject because it expressed a sense of fun to me.  I could envision family and friends coming and going, pulling the rope to ring the bell loudly, under the not-so-watchful eye of the man reclining on a cactus in the painting on the wall.