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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Calgary in September, 14H x 11W inches oil pastels on paper, 3-inch-wide white double mat and 26H x 22W inch white custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish. Part of the Paper Places series.
Post-dated note: Won Second Place in the Paintings category in Plano Art Association’s annual One-Two-Five Show Exhibition in Plano, Texas April 11 – May 8, 2007. I think of pastels to be drawings because no brush is involved, but they are commonly categorized in competitions as paintings…heck, if it wins a prize, does it really matter?
Southern Utah
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Red Rocks in Southern Utah, 14H x 11W inches oil pastels on paper, 3-inch-wide white double mat and 26H x 22W inch white custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Part of the Paper Places series. I find driving anywhere preferable to flying because of scenery like the landscape in Southern Utah. The colors and patterns are stunning!
Silent Witness
Friday, April 21st, 2006
Silent Witness, Juniper at Grand Canyon, Arizona USA, 14H x 11W inches oil pastels on paper, Paper Places series, 3-inch-wide white double mat and 26H x 22W inch white custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Eneggma
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Eneggma, set of 4H x 4W dry pastels on paper, part of sketches prepared for “The Perfection of Small Birds” by American Poet Hannah Gerber. Frames use crackle glaze and off-white acrylics over robin-egg blue. Sold.
Dust Bath
Monday, April 10th, 2006
Dust Bath, 4H x 6W inches dry pastels on charcoal paper, for Hannah Gerber’s The Perfection of Small Birds
Chickadee 02
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Chickadee 02, 4H x 6W inches charcoal on paper, another sketch for Hannah Gerber’s The Perfection of Small Birds
Chickadee 01
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Chickadee 01, 8 x 10 inches charcoal on paper, for The Perfection of Small Birds, by Poet Hannah Gerber
Hannah was only looking for cover Art, but when commissioned to do only one design a lot of preliminary sketches are presented also, partly as a way of warming up but also to give clients a selection. As a result, extras were also used on inside pages.
Dusk
Friday, April 7th, 2006
Dusk, 8H x 10W inches dry pastels, graphite on charcoal paper. A few sketches for Poet Hannah Gerber’s book The Perfection of Small Birds will be posted this week. This one was inspired by “Dawn”, a recent acrylic painting.
Ancient Mayan Bowl Chair
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Mayan Bowl Replica Chair, 29H x 29W x 29D inches durable, functional, comfortable refurbished vintage 1960’s plastic lawn chair, mixed media: woven canvas strips, plaster cured and painted, varnish and wax.
This replica of an ancient Mayan artifact re-utilizes a vintage plastic lawn chair that was considered Art in its own day. The refurbished chair was created by a process of weaving canvas strips and white glue paper-mache style over the entire plastic top and bottom, layering wall plaster sanded in between coats, acrylics paint, varnish, graphite, marker, more varnish, then waxed for durability. Three more chairs are yet to be created with historic Art themes from other cultures.
The original bowl design is from the Late Classic Period of Mayan history, 600 – 900 A.D. Common Era, portraying two water Gods witnessing the birth of the all-important Maize God who emerges from a turtle, symbol of the earth and origins thereof. Customarily, hieroglyphs written along the top rim show the bowl-owner’s name and what the bowl was used for.
Inspirational resource: Maya, Divine Kings of the Rainforest edited by Nikolai Grube ISBN 3-8290-4150-0
Post-dated notes: Accepted into Grand Prairie Arts Council Juried Exhibition and Sale Sept./Oct. 2007, and won Second Place cash award, 3D Category. Also accepted into Artjury.com’s 2007 Fall/Winter Juried Online Exhibition.
Pebbles Mosaics, variations
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
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| Zen Garden 06 - Pebbles Mosaics. | |||||
| Set of four 8 x 10 x 1 inches hand-made tiles on canvas. | |||||
| $550.00 |  |
Zen Garden 06, Pebbles, a very versatile set, these four 8 x 10 mosaics
The 4 pieces can be arranged in a number of ways: vertically, horizontally, in a square, and changed for a new look, next image. Each piece is different and can be placed in any order to create a pattern or pathway of “pebbles”.
