Pink Lady

Acrylic on paper.

Less is More

Rene Magritte's painting, graphics for two very plain naked doors. Split the painting and added my own to the bottom half of doors. Doors face each other across a small entry, an Alice in Wonderland desire to want to know what is behind each door. Left or right?





Splashed moss green stain used on the stairs onto paper for a spontaneous cat.

When Life Gets Too Crazy

"the greatest thing is just to love and be loved in return."
Nat King Cole singing Nature Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw

Doing mostly 4x6 sketches out and about, sketches of sketches and sketchbooks, sort an Escher thing, drawing myself drawing myself.

Fuji-san Slideshow

Enveloped

Pardon my French. Letter to Rene Magritte.


The second envelope painted watching the first episode of Red Shoe Diaries, messy lives.

The woman's beauty stops at the surface.



The Sea of Cortez where the beauty of ocean never stops.

2009 Sketchbook

Some pages from a 4 x 6 Pro Art sketchbook begun December 2008 with my one inch ceramic Santa and his little house that he stays in during the off season. The paper isn't the best for watercolor and the Uniball pen does bleed through a bit, but the size and texture is comfortable to sketch while standing.

The lone pyramid is the in the opening of CSI Las Vegas.

The wall of cobras is from Luxor. The small ceramic fertility statue to the left.

My practice attempt to understand Fernand Leger's red cubist painting.

Tea Time

Tea time. Watercolor and sumi ink. Vintage silk doll made in Japan. Didn't need a potholder but couldn't resist the appliquéd fabric shapes. The petite bowl turned out to be antique lacquer which began to crack when I floated a passion flower in water. In its former life, the bowl probably had a flattened doll's head, a silk tassel. The bowl is painted with a kimono design. My favorite thrift shoppe in Old Town Petaluma would sometimes got Japanese bits and pieces from the 40's, most likely brought home by men in the military.