Painting Experiments

Have been busy experimenting with a looser, more impressionistic look with thicker paint and no glazing. The still lifes have been more successful, the landscapes more challenging. I have revised a couple of older experiments.

A busy spring!

Things have been very busy, so no posts recently. I have been gearing up for the ProArts open studio in June and trying to enter some competitions, as well as take some classes in an effort to expand my horizons and my techniques. I have work in the Alameda On Camera 2008 Show in the Frank Bette Center, and will soon be moving over to Perforce Software Corporation in Alameda. It is only the second time I have exhibited straight photography. Well they are giclee prints on watercolor paper but they are still photography as opposed to Photobased artwork.

So Much to Do So Little Time

I currently have art in two spaces, Expressions Gallery in Berkeley and The Frank Bette Center in Alameda and I am in the process of launching the first Major satellite show for the Frank Bette Center at Perforce Software in Alameda called "ShowCase Alameda". It includes works from 13 FBCA artists who work in photo-based mediums, all source material from the 2007 "Alameda On Camera" event. The artists have been encouraged to expand the work that they submitted for last year's show. I had so many of my own images to work from but I am pretty much sticking to the baseball league theme that I started with last year...another encaustic painting and the addition to straight photography which is pretty scary since I don't consider myself a photographer!
This year's Alameda On Camera challenge greeted the particpants with more rain, just like last year. I really went out on a limb and decided to work exclusively with photography...okay, so I messed around with photoshop a bit and I am making giclee prints on watercolor paper, but it is still photography rather than painting. I am excited to see how this all works out.

Another Horse

This is a drawing I did for a logo. I am starting to like drawing horses and riders.
Haven't done it in a very long time. Working on some encaustice paintings that will incorporate the drawings.

Horses, Horses, Horses

Another horse drawing. Thanks to Debbie Hansen of Hansen Images for the original photo.

Horses, Horses, Horses

I have resisted drawing and painting horses for a long time, even though my friends have asked me repeatedly. So I have started. This was a gift to my friend for helping me out in my times of need.

Vision and Revision

These evolved out of a project for the 5+5+5 show in the signature gallery at the Frank Bette Center. The finished piece is an oil painting based on the same theme, the myth of Apollo and Daphne. I chose to use the california landscape and the oak trees as the
embodiment of Daphne. The medium is a combination of my photographs, hand made paper and encaustic paint on masonite.