'BUTTERFLY WORLD'

These are pictures of a mural I finished last summer in the interior courtyard of the Albany YMCA, in Albany California. I call it Butterfly World, because all of the many butterflies in the mural are from every continent on earth. I am about to start another large outside mural and I'm preparing for Pro Arts Open Studios, the first two Sundays in June, so I will be taking a hiatus from the dailies until mid-June.

'FIGURE STUDY 9'

Oil on ABS panel

5" X 7"

'SHELL'


Oil on triple primed ABS panel

6" X 6"

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YOSHIO

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Oil on masonite

9 X 14

'CABG'


Oil on canvas

8" X 10"

The medical name for by-pass surgery (Cardiac Artery Bypass Graft) is pronounced
'cabbage'- My 83 yr old father had this surgery last week.

'MONKEY ON TURTLE BEAD'


Oil on maple hardboard

5"X7"

'FIGURE STUDY 8'

Oil on masonite

9" X 14"


Last Wednesday at my figure drawing/painting group- I was trying to loosen up and not be so concerned with results.

'GLASS JEWEL 9'

5"X7"
Oil on maple hardboard

"The problem of the painter is to have the painting create its own light- that's the theory of painting." Wayne Thiebaud

'VAN GOGH'S PICKLES'


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5"X7"

Oil on maple hardboard

'MERAV AND THE TURQUOISE CHAIR'

Oil on masonite
11" X 11"
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The first image is the underpainting done during first week with model, Merav.
I used a burnt sienna layer over a gray underpainting and used a wipe out technique, with Q-tips,rags and make-up sponges! I added in darks and lights with more sienna and cremnitz white.

The second image is from the final sitting at the McGee St studio. I added in local color and skin tones in the lights and improvised brush-work in the patterned fabrics in the background. When I was nearly finished, a fellow painter turned it upside down, which helped me to resolve some composition and color issues. When you don't know how to finish a painting, turning it upside down is a great way to see it in a fresh, abstract way.

'GLASS JEWEL 8'

6"X6"
Oil on maple hardboard

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'GLASS JEWEL 7'
Oil on maple hardboard
5"X7"

"Small work fits in with the pace of modern life. In the time where the one liner, the quick fix, instant gratification and short concentration-spans rule, small stuff works. Life burgeons--family, friendship, fellowship, dining and watching long-neglected DVD's like Al Gore's witness to global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." All becomes part of the matrix. Like an impossible jigsaw on the coffee table, the paintbox is always there with its permanent invitation to frustration, understanding and joy." Robert Genn, author of 'The Painter's Keys'


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'GLASS JEWEL 6'


Oil on maple hardboard

5" X 7"

'GLASS JEWEL 5"

Oil on maple hardboard

6"X6"

'GLASS JEWEL 4"
Oil on maple hardboard
6"X 6"

'FIGURE 6'

Oil on primed masonite

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11" X 11"

'GLASS JEWEL, 3'

'GLASS JEWEL, 2'













Oil on maple hardboard
6" X 6"

'GLASS JEWEL 1'

This little glass jewel is a remnant from a collection of special items that I used in my former profession as a stained glass designer. This morning I was reading from a randomly selected page in 'Oil Painting Secrets from a Master' by Linda Cateura- the words of David Leffel- on Seeing- "Rubens...had the ability to see objects of nature with a painter's eye,.. he could immediately see the predominant feature that defines and distinguishes every object and bring this visual reality to his paintings..." words to meditate on while painting an object not of nature.

Oil
5"X 7"
maple hardboard


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'OLD CRAYOLAS'

Oil
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maple hardboard

5"X7"