Two watercolors from May visit to California, the incredible cliffs of Torrey Pines Beach in San Diego.
If you walk through the garden
Nov 20 - Dec 13, 2015 8.3"x11.7" $100 This painting is something I have been imagining painting for awhile and finally got around to making over the last month. The title is taken from the Tom Waits song "Way Down in the Hole" which starts with "When you walk through the garden..." You might recognize it from The Wire. So this painting is my version of Eden-- the familiar inner struggle as a landscape. One figure turns left, the other figure turns right, meeting up with an old friend. View from the table at night (Kitchen, Computer, Chair, Frida, Couch, Sam Working)
Dec 10-11 2015 Oil on paper 8.3"x11.7" $150 The view from my current work table- a cross section of two rooms with very different light environments. Today I came across artist Nancy Gruskin (http://www.nancygruskin.com/)- I love her approach to interiors. What I was trying to do here is similar to what I think she is doing in her work; abstracting and simplifying elements to create a painting that expresses the joy of sight- the way the eye sees relationships between objects in the room; the evident poetry of shapes and angles: This is the 13th card I've made for this family!
Click here to see cards from previous years...The first one is from 1998. Since the last card, I've learned a lot more about working in photoshop. I made this one almost entirely using photoshop. Here's the first sketch before color: |