Cornville

John McCain Says he lives in Sedona, but he really lives in Cornville a little hick town outside of Sedona Az. come back and visit as I'm going to post more on the contest I was in later.
oil on linen 8x10

Snowing in JeromeGold King Mine and Ghost Town... As cold as it looks.




You can see why I'd like this place...



Trying to hide from cold under a porch roof. Didn't work. I made a frozen cake frosting painting.


Josh Been and Bill Cramer cursing the weather Gods.




All the artists.


With Scott Prior who won the best of show. Awarded by Scott Jennings who did his best to pretend I didn't exist by handing out 4 extra unscheduled merit awards that I didn't qualify for apparently.

Pull

Oil on Wood 16x24

I'll do an update on the show next week when paint dries and I get some time. This is the corner of Sunland and SF again. Buddy Aaron fortuitously "posed" for the figure. We were walking along and he got ahead while I was camera fiddling. When I looked up he was in the perfect spot for a figure, so I told him freeze and he did. His pose was a little weirdly tiled so I tilted it more in the painting to add to the attraction of the Mc Donald's sign compelling him to go eat... no time for the other artist thing this week.

Sunland Ave Evening and a paint out

I love the corner of Sunland and San Fernando. So many paintings here so many angry crack whores flipping me and Arron off as we take pictures.

Philly

When Tony and I went to NY we visited amazing artist Mike Manley in Philly. He and his pal Jamar took us around to the kind of areas I like subject wise. It was a in and out rainy day.
Don't know why it took me so long to do a painting for the referance, but here it is.
oil on Wood 16x20

Come see the show see info in lower post. Go the the Gallery site if you can't wait and a clik on buy it now to get a painting.



South Connector is one of the deluxe card sets available from Drawing Dreams Foundation, a charity for kids to promote art. It might not show it from the scan, but it's so a really good repro. I liked it enough to buy some myself. It's a very small print run that’s already half sold. You might want to order a set before they are gone... a good cause and a tax write off. Many other cool cards too. See the link under (links) or cut and paste:http://www.drawingdreams.org/Cards.html

Artists I like:
Raimonds Staprans

76 and the show next Saturday

My drive to work on a Grey day.

Oil on linen 9x12




California regionalist
Iconic painter Kenton Nelson in front of his portrait by Ray Turner.



the PMCA has one of there strongest combinations or artists showing right now. A big Wayne Thiebaud show, an amazing group of surprisingly modern woodcuts from the thirties by Frances Gerahert and finally Ray Turner's insightful portraits of all his friends in the upstairs gallery. Ray's known for his haunting landscapes that have a lingering influence for his mentor Richard Bunkall, but these portraits are distinctly his own.He has the show featured in a new book published by the PMAC Beautifully capturing every brushstroke thanks to the great photo eye of Blue over at Artworks. They have the book for sale and mine to! to go there and get your work shot professionally.

Red Cart

24x32 oil on wood
The unground parking at Target on Colorado in Pasadena has yielded three paintings for me. I spent a little time making this one a little more finished out as I was trying for a real subtle light effect. I gave the shopping cart a golden moment as a way to make a painting technique serve as a droll comentary.
Many contemporary modern artists don’t realize that painting skills give you more of an expressive artistic vocabulary. They have bought the lazy idea that good technique is somehow makes you a more limited artist… How did that idea take over the art world so completely? I'll do my favorite artist thing later.



See you there

Going Home and a fix

OIl on wood 12x16

Since I was a teen I admired the work Illustrator of Bernie Fuchs. Over the years I kind of took him for granted and went thru a period of judgmental attitude where I was very anti- photography put him off my radar. More recently people have mentioned that my work reminded them of him. Taking a second look I had to admit it seems that way, but it must have been unconscious. However, I do have a renewed admiration for his work. So when he passed recently I didn't take his work out and copy it, but using my own reference, I did this sort of tribute to him, thinking about him as I worked. Fuchs and Bob Peak were the last true titans of Illustration staying at the top of their game while the illustration business was dieing. During his later years he seemed to have found a home in the fine art world too.

BF: do a serch on him tons of great stuff on the internet.







I took this painting: Blimp over Burbank (posted a few months ago) to the framer for the up coming Newberry show and noticed a chip on it. I got it home fixed the chip and proceeded to work on it for another 2 hours doing enough adjusting to post it again. Guess it helped BOB is a finalist in the Ray mar competition.