The Best Month

October

a big birthday month in my family

-the month that always feels like the time to begin something new

-usually the best weather month, anywhere

-it ends with my favorite holiday

Some cards I just finished for the season

Current

These are two prints hanging at Brandon Gallery this month. When you're there for "Art By The Inch" (good time would be the reception on June 25 - 4-7) , find them. They're better in person.

Speaking Volumes

Dis moi

Art By The Inch

Art By The Inch just got under way at Brandon Gallery. Our 30-foot long painting (a collaboration of 15 artists) is being sold for $1/square inch all this week. It's great fun to paint and to sell; and it's a major fund-raiser for the gallery. I'll post some pictures soon.

Another collaborative piece with Risa Gettler just won an award at Escondido Municipal Gallery's current exhibit. An image of "Roots and Branches" is in an older post.

"An Exultation of Marks" just went up on Letraset's website (May 23).
They were very enthused about how we used the old products.

An Exultation of Marks

This is my latest collaboration with artist/friend
Risa Gettler. It was especially fun to capture some
of our shared design history through her use
of old Letraset rub-on sheets to create the
foliage.

never TMI

I've had the pleasure of taking two terrific workshops in the past month. In one I learned to make solarplates to use in my prints. In the other, I re-invigorated my love of painting. Workshops always give me new perspective on my work and how to develop my ideas. These two have opened the floodgates; I can't wait to get the next concept down on paper or canvas. I hope it goes on and on. I'm posting a couple of prints. I'll post some paintings soon.

new year - new exhibit

An icy debut for the new year

'tis the season

Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate your abundance

using it and losing it

After three days working with Freda Fairchild (two weeks ago) learning
the technique of lithography using polyester plates, I was full of ideas
and anxious to try them.
First, though, I had to finish a mixed media piece I promised myself
I'd enter in Brandon Gallery's "Small Works" show. So I've immersed
myself in acrylics and inks for a few days. Here's "Defying Gravity."
The show hangs the month of November.

One month into the print show at the Fallbrook
Art Center (see previous announcement), I thought
I'd post one of my prints that's included. This show
is really worthwhile for anyone with the slightest
interest in contemporary printmaking - or prominent
20th Century artists. I'm very pleased to be hanging
in such good company.

                                               "News No One Uses", monotype

Show announcement

This is a show with national
scope and includes some
historically significant prints by
well-known artists. Try to
see it if you're in the area.

Here are the final two pastel-embellished prints I've been
playing with. I'm moving on to some experiments with
trace monotypes for upcoming shows.

"Nightlight"

 

                                                        

"Gargoyle"