Category Archives: Making work
Earth Day bottles XII
  In this picture I’m with good folks from our sponsors, Waste Management and the Simi Valley Town Centre. Tomorrow’s the opening day. Come and visit the installation. Here‘s the mall website.    Leticia Wilson rocks!Â
Storm X
 Here’s the first sweep at the sky, an ultramarine blue over the white, easy on the medium. I’ll darken the sky a lot more because it’s way too bright right now and then I’ll work some details into the … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles XI
It’s finished! Â Â It was pretty easily done too, with the help of five friends who made light work of the last two hundred bottles. Â Today was a truly international business – Laurence from France, Janet, Sheena and Charles … Continue reading
storm IX
I’ve been working on the painting today after what seems like a very long break; it feels good to be back in the studio after all the work on the bottle piece. Â The colour is a little off in … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles X
Oh my. This is getting tiring. I grabbed about an hour at the Town Center today to put up another fifty bottles with Pablo, so there are only two hundred to go, which should be a piece of cake to … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles VIII
 At the end of the day we managed to get about six hundred of the bottles in the air, mostly thanks to help from CLU student Bret Bays, who worked with me to tie together clusters of bottles for … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles VII
A good morning’s work at the Town Centre. With the help of Pablo (seen here hanging a cluster of bottles) we managed to hang about two hundred and fifty bottles. There’s a long way to go, but this is progress. … Continue reading
storm VIII
Today’s progress. She’s wearing her aviator goggles now, and a triangular necklace. I added much more definition into the face and flying helmet and knifed a layer of flesh tones onto the man, who is taking his proper place in … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles VI
Here’s a close shot of the bottles so you can see the gravel and ash.