Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Art Prints for Sale Online

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Signed prints of selected pieces of my art are now available here online.

Two current themes of my art can be seen in a slide show or by clicking each individual picture. You can access these images from the two new pages on the blog image bar above titled “Backbone” and “Piece of Mind Kids.”

“Backbone” is a series of work showing at the Bergamot Station at Grey McGear Gallery #G-7 in Santa Monica. The Backbone page also features a selection of my new works on Paper, a work in progress called “Path of the Sword.”

“Piece of Mind Kids” consists of a series of pastel portraiture of the youth at risk that I have worked with over several decades in various institutions and portrays them in a colorful, whimsical and fun way. The originals are currently showing at the Noel Baza Fine art gallery in San Diego.

Check out these two pages and enjoy the images.

The above image is titled “Follow Through,”  is Pencil on Paper and 17″ x 20,” it is part of a triptic in my new work in progress titled the “Path of the Sword.”

Pastel Portraiture

Tree people blogcopyColorful pastel painting portraiture’s of young children and teens facing difficult choices in a world of limitless possibilities.

This image is titled “Tree people” and is dedicated to  a very young girl living at the Santa Ysabel Reservation. I met her while teaching a combined martial arts, creative arts and meditation class.

I asked them to meditate on an object of their choice with their eyes open – looking at it for 5 minutes – a material object like a tennis shoe, tee shirt, flower, tree … then draw what was observed about that object, like what it is made up of for instance… they were estentially free to make up their own stories. Later we talked about our drawings.

She drew a tree in the center of the page, and had many lines radiating out from that tree, one to the sun and rain clouds, and one to the house she lives in, to the timber and wood from the trees, and connecting it to the forest and the many things living there, but the most beautiful part of her drawing were the people she drew as trees, and the trees as people, she made a clear distinction between the two. She talked about how everything is connected and how we can appreciate that, and that appreciation is felt, by many things other than humans.

This drawing is for you.