Monthly Archives: March 2009

The tree comes home to roost

Here’s a shot from the dress rehearsal of the play, which is now over. Lukas brought the tree down to the studio for me today, so it will be ready for a new incarnation in Simi Valley for Earth Day. … Continue reading

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Sky layers

I liked the earlier work on the sky, but felt that the clouds needed a little more substance, so this afternoon I took the easel outside and painted from the white cumulus clouds drifting smartly across the California blue sky. … Continue reading

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The sun and the sky

I liked the cloudy sky in the Temperance painting well enough to do the same thing in the Sun piece, laying down a patchy coat of blue, ragged off carefully to avoid all the gold – fiddly work because of … Continue reading

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Newspaper review

There’s an article about the show by Bojana Hill in the Santa Barbara Independent describing the tree as a  “beautiful centerpiece”. Nice!    

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Background of Justice

It’s one hundred percent humidity here in Thousand Oaks (it’s raining), so my paint won’t dry, but being unable to continue with the Sun meant that I had no good excuse for not getting back to Justice, who needs a … Continue reading

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Discipline

I learned a valuable lesson about discipline today – first I came upon this photo and Reuters story about a Buddhist monk who has repeated his obeisance in the same spot so often that his footprints have been deeply worn into the … Continue reading

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Peach tree in action / Sunshine

There are a huge number of photos of the dress rehearsal of Muéveme, Muévete  here, including some good images of the set and lighting work I designed for the show.  I put in some time on the sky of the Sun painting, … Continue reading

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Brand Library Gallery

The artists in the May exhibit at the Brand Library Gallery in Glendale got together yesterday to figure out who would put which works into the exhibit, the opening of which is moving inexorably closer (to my horror February has … Continue reading

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