Art At The Source Open Studios

Hey, what a fun and wild weekend-or two weekends. Thanks any and all who may have come by and been part of Lisa and my inaugural - and Patrick's continuing - Art at the Source Open Studios. I still can't put more than a few words together even three days after Sunday-so here's just a very few photos of the studio and garden-(as always, click image to enlarge)




before the show-hey, I look ready don't I?





the crowds arrive....
yikes...










though mine obviously is'nt the only art to attract attention...









Lisa's main wall...








Lisa, are you befuddled or bemused? (Or teed off I used this photo?)









How's this one?








Zeke, we know, loves art (how could he not?)-but there are times when it's pretty tough to compete with a cookie.
(Hey Zeke-it's cool. We have lots more.)









meanwhile, just outside the studio...







looking back towards the studio-Lisa's garden and Patrick's sculptures














Patrick and some of his great creations bask in Lisa's garden, while our piece from last year's Burning Man fest looks on...
(and speaking of-surf on over to the linked Art Farm Motel site for info on this years B.M. project-I should get an update posted there later this week ).



here's a picture of the re-hung main wall on my end of the studio, with from left to right-"Lucky Girl" (sold to Mathew and LuLu for their Willowwood Cafe here in Graton-a great honor!), "A Larger Loser" on top of "Trust", then "Sing-Along", and finally "The Memo". On the ground are my little "Losers" in progress-the Bee on the left being done , then next to it almost done, then the rest just under way...

and here's "The Memo" again with the still not completely completed triptych "Happy/Lucky/Fun".
And where's "Misunderstood"? Sold! To a cool guy and past patron, who also is an artist-a photographer-and in fact when he came over yesterday to pick up his painting, he gave me two great photos-here's one of them...
(thanks alot Graham!)
And now, it's time to stroll on over to the Underwood for my reward mojito-ahhh, now that's a pretty picture!

(for more pictures of the open studios-especially more of Lisa's great work-and also for an article that appeared in the North Bay Bohemian about us and Lisa's garden-check out her "Studio View" link.)

new art for Open Studio weekend

finally finished some of the small and medium sized paintings I've been working on. Not great photos, but you'll get the idea.
This first one came about from imagery I snapped w/ the digital camera on the road-trip Lisa and I took around Easter (I call this "image-poaching"--when I go in to an antique store and secretly take pictures of inspiring images--in this case, pictures from different children's books). I developed the design from my source-images first, then, well--I had just bought Neil Young's great new c/d, and was immediately inspired by one of the songs, whose title I painted on my picture...

"Sing-along" 24"x36" acrylic on panel (as always, click to enlarge)

This painting in turn inspired the small (I think it's 20"x20") one I put up at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts for the Open Studio preview show..







...you know...because he's a loser!
Oh, and then I finally finished "Trust"-which is somewhere around 28"square...
And here's a picture I stuggled over-which maybe is appropriate since it's sort of about confussion in general (and an exploration of teenage confussion in particular). I documented my process-which I'll share here-and I'll have to do this again, it was very interesting for me (it'll be more interesting on a larger piece)...
I was listening to Wilco when their song title, "Misunderstood", suggested mine...
























































Ok-I also just got back from Don (Jackson) some photos he took, including this one of a work I recently sold at Arches Gallery. It's sort of the companion piece to "The Memo"-also 48"x48". This one's called "Hello Kitty"