First Blog , Part Two

Another diptych-related more to "Time Will Tell" than the two above.

A bit of a side-trip, an attempt to get back to just a more sensual image and approach. Maybe it's the first in a "Four Seasons" series. But since I seem to have the attention span of ...um, what were we just talking about?-Yeh, anyway...
Oh, this one is-so far-my one and only high quality limited edition giclee print available. 20"x20" image size. $175.oo + tx.

"Yo Recuerdo" (I Remember) 24"x36"
This was inspired by an event I read about in the paper. It's not important to know the details- there are so many stories that come and go-but I just wanted to say to myself (as well as the girl in the story) that I will try to remember.

"The Mystery Of Faith" (version 2) I forget, close to 18"x24"
Actually this and "Flora" are fairly closely related. Sorry about the dirty slide here-also, is the orange sphere at the top over-saturated on your screen? Computers. Man, if I could make things look good with computers I'd probably give up painting.
Ok-fun fact about this painting. I found the title in a book I was reading at the time (note to self-read more books)-and I just liked it. Then, after I finished the first, almost identical, version of this painting (which I gave to my mom) I was working on this version and the thought came to me to have the bird sipping from tears slightly welling up in the woman's eye-giving more meaning to the idea of "faith" than just having the bird's beak menacingly close to a woman's eye. Anyway, I told my mom about this, and she said that's how she'd always interpreted the bird's action-and I look at her version now and though I did'nt mean to I had apparently painted tears on hers too. Ok, wierder things have happened. Nevermind.

This painting is directly related to the first acrylic paintings I did several years back now, after I decided to abandon my old style of oil painted varnished charcoal drawings (I still have a few around-I'll show you what I'm talking about later). When I changed to acrylics, I wanted a whole new palette-and I'd loved and collected old fruit-crate labels for some time, so at first, that's what I painted. Anyway, the two flanking canvases are direct blow-ups from actual label images, the middle one is made-up. The idea was to put three cropped images together and try to create a new narrative. It was fun and I'm actually almost finished with a new triptych, which I'll bore you with soon.

Alright-this is as far back as I'm going to go--and yeh, y'know, I just noticed that the dang thing is backward (my signiture at the bottom is the tip-off)--but it does'nt seem to bother me. Fun fact #2. When Lisa and I first moved to Graton we quickly met several local artists that at the time were partners in the small but artistically diverse gallery here-The Graton Gallery--
(which is still going strong) and we were invited to join-which was cool. So one night I'm sitting the gallery, working, and this young-ish man comes in with his small kid riding atop his shoulders, and this painting was there and he said to me, "Does the artist know he's painted a pair of titties?" And I said "I'll be sure to let him know".