Posts Tagged ‘California’
May 21, 2012
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May 18th acrylic on canvas 42″ x 29″
I just got back from an intensive ten day painting workshop. I came back a better painter. When I went back to the studio and started painting, I had a new vocabulary. The old favorite colors came back in a new context. I knew what I wanted to say. This brought me back to my familiar warm palette, but the variation of color and shapes changed. It’s now very exciting and intriguing for me to paint. I have given myself so much more to work with. May 18th was painted on Friday. It might be finished or it may tell me, hey, where did you go? You need to work with me. What do you think? Is the painting finished?
Tags:abstract painting, Arts, California, painter, Visual Arts
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May 2, 2012
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Right now many of the original terra cotta warriors from Xian are on exhibit in New York. At the same time, contemporary artist Gong Yuebin, has a show at the Crocker museum in Sacramento California. Gong has interspersed life size modern warriors marching with copies of the original warriors, but the modern soldiers are carrying nuclear missiles.
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibits/686-gong-yuebin-site-2801
In the summer of 2002 My son and I visited East China. We were on one of the last Yangzi River cruises before the Chinese flooded the three gorges. I have many sketches and poems all ready to put together into an artist’s book or an edition – just haven’t gotten around to doing it. I took different weights of paper to draw on. I had some transparent paper along just in case and ended up using it when we were in Xian.
Tags:New York, California, drawing, China, Yangtze river, Contemporary art, Xi'an, Terracotta Army, Gong Yuebin, Crocker Art Museum
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April 6, 2012
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I think this little sketch is successful. It seems to have a nice balance and variation of line, color, texture, space. I like the edges, especially where the black meets the shape on the right side.
Tags:Abstract Art, California, drawing, india ink, pastels
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April 4, 2012
So I woke up to an image on my phone. Someone had been mugged, badly roughed up. It’s my brother! Now he is a tough guy. A tough guy who races automobiles. Jeeze, he’s been in an accident. No word, just a photograph he must have taken the picture of himself with his phone so at least he is conscious. Turns out, you know those electric powered scooters with big wheels? You stand on them and lean forward or backward to make them go. Guess he tried out a Segway and hit a transition in the road. Broke two ribs and really roughed up his eye. Being the artist in the family I immediately uploaded the photo and did a little touchup in Lightroom. Pretty cool colors. Maybe he’ll send me another when the eye is yellow green. Go back to NASCAR racing. It’s safer.
Tags:Abstract Art, Art and Healing, California, iphone, NASCAR, photography, Travel
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March 28, 2012
How am I going to get my daily post written when my husband is in the other room watching all the previous seasons of the TV show? It’s his first time watching it so he’s catching up. I hear Peggy talking in the background. Gotta run in and see what she is up to. What’s Don doing? Sterling Cooper – I wonder what words of wisdom he will be saying? How am I going to pick and upload an image when I want to see what Betty is wearing? Ahhh the music. That means the end of that episode. Was it really like that when you were an ad man on Madison Avenue in the 60′s?
Tags:Abstract Art, Betty Draper, California, collage, Don Draper, Mad Men, Madison Avenue, New York, Sennelier oil pastels, Sterling Cooper
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