Work in Progress

This is a paper on paper collage with interesting depth and color but no purpose.  I don't know where to go from here.  It needs something...else. Maybe a black dragon flying across the moon?

The Red Lights of Amsterdam

Way back in these archives there is a series of paintings, "Nude Studies out of the Closet", done in a Figure Study class (teacher: Don Andrews).  I used smaller versions of them in this collage (10x13) over little squares of colored tissue paper.  Trying to get the illusion of the Redlight District's doorways reflected at night in the canal,  I covered the whole thing with pink cellophane.  It's not exactly a success, but fun!

Waterkiss

They "gyre and gimbal in the wabe"
the burly guy, the mermy babe.
Their lips are sealed, nary a bubble!
They're all at sea and they're in lubble.

In The Deep Blue Sea

Oh, no!  Not another mermaid!  Actually, this is a painting of a jellyfish communicating with a mermaid.  What do you suppose they're up to?

Untitled

Everyone Deserves a Star!

Pas de Deux

from Class to CLASS! (my Grandballerina)

Tree dancing naked...

...yesterday in Marian Bear Memorial Park, San Clemente Canyon

About the Birds

See what I mean about the birds?  Nobody likes this painting because she is too long-waisted, and then there's the bird...(I, however, like it very much.  So there.)

Eyes of God

This is the first of my paintings I was willing to hang in my house.  After several unsuccessful attempts to put faces on the children I gave up and decided they were 'the eyes of God' and left them to the eyes of the viewer.  The little chicken (lower left) was cut out of paper and pasted on because I wasn't sure I wanted it there.  Later it fell off and disappeared - probably revealing the answer to why the chicken crossed the road. ( I have a thing for cutting out birds and pasting them on otherwise acrylic paintings.  Don't ask.)

Blue Moon New Year!

Would you prefer Cobalt, Cerulean, Ultramarine, Pthalo, Prussian?  As long as it's impossibly bluetiful!


I'm back from a wonderful Birthday Vacation at a cabin in the Big Bear snow with children and grandchildren.  I took art supplies but not a line was drawn except on a Sketchadoodle.  One of my presents was a gift card to Blick, so watch this space for a colorful 2010!

Noel (with two dots over the "e") 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Here's my shamelessly self-important Self Portrait wishing you ALL the best in Life and Art in 2010!  I'm "looking up" toward the New Year...and Family trip to the snowy mountains of CA for a few days.  Keep the warmth within!

Glo-oo-o-ooo-o-oooo-ria!

Angel We Have Heard on High (in 1989)

Baby Nino

Remember the El Nino Year 1997?  This was my Christmas card.  The globe was see-through
with scene imprinted on it - and interchangeably you got to choose either the rain background or the rainbow.

I DID break my arm patting myself on the back for this one!

Frosty's MRI

Frosty, The Snowman, was turned down by an insurance company due to his "non-preexisting" condition.  However, Doctors Without Snowboarders gave him an MRI and this is what they found.

Now he says he's feeling "Berry Good"!

Old Christmas Cards Revisited

At my family's request I have begun photographing all the Christmas cards I've sent over the years.  Fortunately I kept one each. A couple of times I posed my friend, Artie, the mannikin.  Artie and the not so huggy bear must have been for a Bah Bumhug! year.



Artie in the snow with wreath was standing in front of a scenic watercolor I had just finished.  I wonder where that is now.

...and everywhere the Angel went

...the Unicorn was sure to go.

Summer Heart

                                A couple of 4x4's - inches, that is!  Tiny canvases.