Paintings and writings that express my intuitive wisdom.
Yesterday, over 150 guests gathered at the reception to see the artwork and hear how Daniel Foster selected the Best of Show, along with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Mr. Foster, former director of the Riverside Art Museum, talked about composition, technical skill, and that an artist could excel at both of these qualities, ...
Rancho Cucamonga has a Museum of Art! After searching the internet for galleries near my home, I was thrilled to find an art gallery nearby. On one rainy Sunday afternoon, I visited the museum and was greeted by Joyce who talked about the art and the history of the museum. I immediately became a member. ...
http://tinyurl.com/5v7tmlu There are those who keep telling me to be positive, to crumple up my negativity and just throw it away. Fushia and light yellow come to mind and when I mix up these colors, instantly I feel relief. Painting and writing gives my feelings a place to go.
6/18/11 Exploring a new village today. Joe's Hardware, the first sign shown, started my day observing great type design and art. Cafe Des Artistes was behind the art gallery and Mike, the owner of the cafe, said it was modeled after a cafe in New York City. After my muffin and mocha, I needed to see ...
The human species was created to use pictures as their first form of communication. When I started this piece, I drew a point on the bottom which represented me. Then I drew a coil shape that surrounded me in layers. After that, I drew lots of other small yellow points and that represents all the people ...
My closed eye with long lashes towards the bottom was left untouched. Above it and left of center is an opening of sorts. Heavens of healing pour down on it. What a difference a new day makes! It helps to see how far I've come to know how far I have yet to go. I ...
2/7/11 This is the painting started in Sylvia Megerdichian's class. She talked about working with light using a mid-value then moving to dark. "You cannot paint like anyone else. When you paint like you, your best comes out."
Free Arts for Abused Children contacted me to spruce up their existing fundraiser logo and design a "save the date" postcard. They wanted to use the same heart graphic and hand prints from their original logo, although, the original graphic was not available. I had to recreate the heart in Illustrator and add the hand ...
Pictorial free association, Automatism as defined in "Art Speak," was the last project from the abstract class at UCLA with Ben Britton. Using Payne's Grey, I started drawing outlines of these shapes. They are some sort of entities that have been showing up in my work, similar to Gatherers and The Rose Angel. In this ...
For project #2 from UCLA abstract painting class, we started with an exercise in class taking turns repeating marks made by another student. For our painting, we were to use one stroke gestures or marks and also consider using motifs or patterns. My main thought while painting was to use strokes in different sizes, wiping ...