Friday, November 6, 2009

Pasadena
















Hmmm...Palm trees right about now might be nice. It's time for our contact period in Pasadena. Assignments, done. Still ruminating on thesis but am feeling good about what I want to do. They have told us though that our ideas will change a few times. Our jam-packed schedule includes visiting Dream Works Animation Studio, the studios of Greg Spalenka, Jon Han, Gary Meyer, Jeff Smith, Bill Robles, Scott Anderson, Erik Sandberg, Lon Levin, Kenton Nelson, Paul Rogers, the Getty Museum , Norton Simon Museum and hopefully Huntington Gardens as as well as the Gamble House and maybe the Arm and Hammer Museum where there is a Charles Burchfield exhibition including his "late greats".
Photo courtesy of Wikitravel. Will try to keep everyone updated on FB.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Redhood and the Wolf

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Inspiration: Nature



















These impressions left on the concrete from fallen leaves
have the quality of japanese sumi paintings.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Savor New York: Cooperstown


















Road trip to Cooperstown, NY to visit friends. We visited the studios of artist Susan Goetz and Robert Schneider. Susan was working on a portrait of a child that was on her easel. The studios are combined work space and gallery space for both artists who are married. Her father was Richard Vernon Goetz, an accomplished artist and teacher. Her portrait commissions have included Barry Goldwater and retired Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. It was a wonderful visit filled with stories of her father, and her own experiences with painting. Inspired.
Here is a link to an interesting article about the two of them.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Never give up...






































Latest progression...

Never, never, never, never, give up






































Winston Churchill's famous quote, "Never, never, never, never give up" served me well today.
After asking for Murray's direction on the first version I decided to go in further search of the elusive "stitchy line" so characteristic of David Stone Martin and Ben Shahn. I have tried drawing with brushes and several different pen nibs. Read that DSM was hard on his nibs and probably went through a few just in one drawing. So I decided to push the nib a bit harder and started coming up with what I think Murray was talking about--the "stitchy line". I even tried Andy Warhol's blotted line (printing) technique (the blotchy line drawing above) I also made some color changes and tried to push that further also...

New Roots and New Prints














I was in Ithaca last week having lunch with a friend and noticed a school called "New Roots" near the restaurant. It's a new charter school...very interesting ...

New prints (giclee) from my Epson R2880...

Somewhere I stumbled upon this recommendation of amazing photos and body of work from Paolo Ventura