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 ...

Oct. 5, 2010 While the paint is drying, and since there hasn't been a moment to write ab..... the phone interrupted me. The final layer of paint is still drying. Then, I will add paint pen line work. This was the second gestural painting I did for my UCLA class. Painting it felt good.

9/21/10 Spur of the moment abstract art class was good last night. Layer 3 looks done but I kept painting. Notes from class: flat planes that overlap value, interlocking, come up in stages, same depth, contrast, edges, relationships between forms, edges: sharp or painterly, balance, sense of gravity, look for opportunities to define a space between forms, ...