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Category Archives: Life
Just ice
I’ve been very preoccupied with getting things ready for Megan and Murray, who are coming to the gallery tonight, starting work on their installation for the university. After making sure that they had a place to stay I continued working on … Continue reading
Practical
Continuing with the practical mood, I stretched some left over ends of canvas that I’ve been saving for a while, simply stapling them onto the face of some good quality plywood with plastic sheeting covering the front of it. Once … Continue reading
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Woodshop 2
We’ve finished building the first work bench in the new wood-shop, so now we can produce panels and stretchers to our hearts content. Awesome! Sam and Jason did a fine job building them with me, and we had a good … 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!  Â
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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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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
Posted in Alchemical work, Exhibits, Life, Sources
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Surveillance
 Boxing Jennifer is a painting I made for Jennifer Lynch (the director of Boxing Helena), who I’ve always been fond of. She has turned her life around recently, having just completed a new film called Surveillance which debuted at Cannes … Continue reading
Back to the studio
Still feeling pretty crummy this morning, enough to skip yoga and running, but I went to class and had the pleasant experience of teaching a bright and wide awake group of students life painting and drawing. I managed to find … Continue reading
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Books about tarot cards
While working on painting the cards, I’ve also been researching and writing about them as I create the images. I’ve had my Marseilles deck since I was a teenager in school, fascinated by the mysterious pictures that emerged from the … Continue reading
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Bert!
Bert Green made it to the studio for a very pleasant afternoon – the first time I’ve seen him in far too long. Last time I saw him I had short hair! He enjoyed seeing “As the Crow Flies” and … Continue reading
