Heavy Into Observation

Friday, July 31, 2015

Home Life

This is another big one.

In The Kitchen

Sleeping During The Day

I posted this one before, when I thought it was finished. Here it is, finished again.

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Summer Fun

I have been messing around all summer, locked in town. Sometimes imagining I am in the Pompidou copying a couple of my favorite masters.

Bonnard

Vuillard

This one is from a photo

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Sleeping During The Day

This is a big one. In a fit of insanity I bought five, three feet by five feet canvases. It is big for me. I have not painted this big in years. It is very exciting.

I admit I don't think I am finished. Hopefully, I won't try to wreck it again.

I like the interesting tension created by such an intimate scene, painted a non-intimate size.

The little yellow painting in the painting is a depiction of my only surviving acrylic. I did it at the Millay Colony in upstate New York. The Millay colony is a wonderful place where they take you in. They give you a room, and a studio, and they feed you! I was there in June years ago with a painter that was getting her MFA from Yale, a playwright from Brown, a poet that had gotten the NEA that year, and a playwright that had been a soap opera star in New York and had won a Fulbright. However, not for being in a being in a soap opera star. They were all East Coasters. I was the waitress from Long Beach. One of them finally admitted to me, in surprise, that I was the only Californian she had met that had read a book! A couple of them were such snobs for sure. However, I had a great time there. It was incredible to have no distractions or obligations to do anything for a month. Plus, there was this cute baby deer someone had released onto the grounds. He and I would go for walks before lunch. And I did manage to paint a bit. I experimented with acrylic and made that little yellow painting of "Picasso's Dogs".

This was the first day. It is nice and raw. I probably should have stopped here.

This was the day I tried to destroy it. I always have to do that. I have to push it to the edge and over.

Monday, April 13, 2015

It's Spring And That Means… OPEN STUDIOS!

I will be at 1890 Bryant, studio #317 this weekend. Frankly, the whole place will be crawling with artists, other creative types and art lovers.

Friday night is the preview, 6-9. If you cannot make that there is always Saturday and Sunday 12-6.

Come on by for a look, a snack, and a chat!

Couple of new paintings...

Freed Cages

Long Learning

Hope you can find me.

Monday, March 9, 2015

Mind Full Of Cages

My interpretation… weird shadow on the wall, submerged leaf, some sort of meeting under water

Meeting

This one has such brilliant color. Reminds me of joy or acid. Drips like lightening.

"Mind" or "Cement Cloud"

Though, this one is not yet finished I thought I should document it. It is at a critical point where I could mess it up and it will be gone.

"Muse"

Friday, February 20, 2015

Back From Lanai

We are back from Lanai. It was such a short trip. However, I did manage to get four full days of painting. Two of the paintings I started on our last trip are still unfinished. They are both part of the collage series. All of the other ones I started have been absorbed into my new series about cages. I am going to still try to finish the collages. However, I left them in Lanai and by the time I get back to Lanai to work on them again, I, myself may be in a different place in my painting. So, who knows if they will go anywhere. I pictured one anyway, way down below.

Here are a couple of little ones that I stuck in my suit case. I started them this trip in Lanai and finished them in S.F. No titles yet.