Animals and Pets We Cherish

Work at Expressions Gallery at 2035 Ashby Ave. Berkeley California 

until December 2nd 2011

WILLEM: oil on canvas (Giclee Print)

PRE: Gouache/Charcoal on Canvas

CAVALLO : Gouache/Charcoal (Giclee print )

Art Contest Covered on Publishers Weekly Blog

Some press and an interview with the author, Diana Love on the contest and her thoughts. Publishers Weekly Blog
Not surprising, none of the entries matched her vision of the character....and non of the entries looked like any other entry! The power of the imagination!


Winners of the Flat Art Division:

Christine Rossi

Cara Bevan

Donna Peters

A Winner in National Art Contest

My Art finished Second in the Flat Art Division of the National "My Feenix" Art Contest.
Please check out the link at www.myfeenix.com

Feenix (mixed media on canvas)

Finalist in My Feenix National Art Contest

I am finalist in the National Art Contest for Image of Character in Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy.

Check out the link to find out more!

http://www.myfeenix.com/

Newest Paintining in "Canary in A Coal Mine" series

Newest piece in the series

"Somalia"

Animal: Somalian or Nubian Wild Ass (probably extinct in the wild)

Mother Color: pthalo green

Flower: Red/Black Rose

24" X 36" Oil on Canvas

Considering the drought and famine in the Somalian region and the continuous political and tribal violence, this painting is more timely than I realized when I started putting the research together and began doing roughs for this series months ago.

For more information on the famine go to:http://www.unicefusa.org/news/releases/unicef-food-voucher-somalia.html

60 Boxes Project/City of Berkeley and Earth Island Institute

I am pleased to have been chosen to participate in the "60 Boxes Project" a public art project with the City of Berkeley and Earth Island Institute. I just need a sponsor to choose my portfolio to actually be able to design a "Box" check out the link to find out
what the "Box" is....http://60boxesproject.blogspot.com

Canary in a Coal Mine Series

Newest art pieces for a series I call "Canary in a Coal Mine;Messages from the Natural World". The animals portrayed in the series are endangered species, the flower is the artist's emotional response to the animal portrayed. 

These pieces show:

Loggerhead Turtle hatch-lings running for the sea, the flower is a Magnolia. Oil on canvas, 24"H X 36"W.

 Emerald Hummingbird hovering in front of over sized Frangipani flowers, Oil on canvas, 24"H X 36"W