Heroes and Heroines

"A (K)Night's Dream"

(2.5" x 3.4" gouache)

(sold)

Internal Balance, a Quest Through the Ages

"Finding Internal Balance"

This 2"x3"miniature qouache took two days to create last week. Various images within the composition came to me slowly, but clearly once seen. I find designs from antiquity within various cultures appeared, as seen in the rocks and clothing of the figures. The black dog refers to the beloved labradors my father kept by his side, bought from the Camaldoli Hermitage monks of Big Sur. 

Portrait of San Francisco

"King of the City"

Exhibited at the Milton Marks Convention Center Gallery, S.F., 2011

(Pardon the poor documentation.)

This gouache on paper experiment is a precursor to my later abstracts that "create something out of nothing." While my partner drove the car I took photographs (film, this was before digital was big) using a telephoto as we traveled around S.F. From that one roll of 36 images I found these 17 told a story about life in this city. I was determined that I could make something beautiful and meaningful out of this one randomly shot roll of film, thus the "something out of nothing."

Looking back now I notice the full page circular motion that became so common in my more recent abstracts, perhaps a pattern of looking deeply while collecting as much data as possible for the study.

Mother and Daughter Memories

Just found a slide of this painting, gouache on paper.

Documentation was before digital camera ease.

I was pleased that this pose showed 

the special relationship between the two.

The daughter is now 24.

(IPC)

Reading the Scrap Paper

Sometimes relevance is

in between the scratches

of chance meetings.

(Original is same size as above, 3" wide.)

Painted Drawing

"Oh and an Orange Hat"

(Versailles/anywhere)

Hung Liu at the Oakland Museum

I was wondering what it would be like to be up close. It is as I suspected, much better than the online imagery. There's something so visceral about paint that is almost out of control but so exquisitely in control. The large pieces allowed me to feel inside the experiences... the drips and sketchy strokes suggesting a passage of time.

Check out Hung Liu's website to look closely at all that calligraphical painting.

I Did it Again

Another one slipped away. I have a tendency of doing this... putting out small pieces for display before I've documented them. The archivist within me says "wait!" but I tack them up anyway, eager to show a bit of flow... and whooosh! out the door they float. The most recent one had a very nice derriere of all things!

I recently visited an earlier escapee, "The Dreaming Gardener." What a delight to see that the ink line was thinner than I remembered (so delicate!) and that life was real even within the pastoral bliss.

I also caught sight of a couple of Chaos Constructs in bright purple and red. They escaped, too, but that's to be expected... chaos being what it is.

Earth, Air, and Connections

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