Monthly Archives: March 2008

Storm II

  Here’s how the piece ended yesterday afternoon. I’m really happy with the composition now – I’m enjoying the curve of the rocks from the left, beginning with the man then sweeping across and down to the crouching woman, followed … Continue reading

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Numbers by Painting VI

    Two, Four, Five, One. I found a little time in the studio to work on the Numbers by Painting series. I laid on a layer of Payne’s grey  to darken the outside areas of three of the pieces. On … Continue reading

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Storm I

The other goal of the day is to figure out where the big “Storm” painting is going. I think I may have worked it out by doing some sketching onto the canvas.    Here’s what it looked like at the … Continue reading

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March 21st, 2008

Today is the Spring equinox, Full Moon and Good Friday. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. I guess it’s pretty unusual for the first Sunday to be the day immediately after … Continue reading

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Process

Today I achieved almost nothing that one might consider creative. My son and I went to Simi Valley to pick up a bag full of water bottles for the installation, pausing to take pictures of the oak tree, which I … Continue reading

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Numbers by Painting V

Here are the photos that I should have posted yesterday. All in process, nothing completed. Two, Five and One in their present condition.  Here’s a closer shot of Two. You can see the stippled surface where the rag breaks up … Continue reading

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Numbers by Painting IV

I laid on a coat of Ultramarine blue over the brown surface of the number five piece, and used some zinc white mixed with a little payne’s grey to make a semi-transparent blue-grey to glaze over the number two. I pulled the glaze using … Continue reading

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Earth Day bottles IV

Today was the first day of Spring break, so what better way of spending it than preparing hundreds of bottles for the Earth Day installation project?    CLU students Megan and Sheena peel labels from the bottles. I don’t want … Continue reading

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Excellent news.

I just received an email from the Brand Library Art Gallery, which is Glendale’s biggest and best exhibit space, confirming that I will participate in a show there in 2009. I don’t know who I’ll be grouped with, but the curators … Continue reading

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Earth Day bottles III

Bottle collection is going well. Monday we’ll start preparing these for use in the installation and to see how many we have. I want to remove the labels, put the ash and gravel in the bottles, then tie string around … Continue reading

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