Another couple of babies from that clutch that I hatched a few weeks ago. The second one is a personal “favorite child”.
#1285 “Precision”. Watercolor collage, 5×3.5″ in mat framing to 7×5″. $25
#1287 “It’s raining stars”. Watercolor collage, 5×3.5″ in mat framing to 7×5″. $25
#1283 Jump for Joy. Watercolor collage 5×3.5″ in 7×5″ mat. $25.
It’s been such a dry year for sales, I’ve not needed to create too much. Nevertheless sometimes I just can’t hold back. Thought I’d do a batch of small impulse-purchase sized works at $25 a pop. Indeed there were a couple of impulses succumbed to in the last couple shows. Here are a few of the ones that haven’t quite impulsed people yet.
I’m having as much fun with the titles as the collages.
I’ve long wanted to see the Aurorae, but cost and logistics have always prevented it – plus that pesky old unalterable – the cold! Nevertheless I can be inspired by the photos that others post. The tough one about painting the aurorae is that it’s light on blackness – something that can’t be easily done in watercolor, and the soft swirls can’t be done easily in acrylic. So this is one of my most impressionistic skies.
If you love it – it’s small enough to ship easily, still gift sized and ready to go on the wall. Others that I’ve posted recently were from a batch of matted pieces.
#1256 Aurorae II. Refractured watercolor on flat panel, acrylic edges. 11×14″, $180.
“Tranquility with tree”
Last month, from my show at 29 Palms Gallery, I sold a painting that went to its forever home in Wisconsin. “Tranquility with Tree” has a special place in my heart – my some-times art dealer Rick Pantele and I put a 5×10 foot giclee version of it into an office at Kaiser Permanente. Tranquility with Tree also spent about two years in the Pioneer’s Museum in Imperial. I had stopped taking it to shows as it was my last framed piece, and the last one in a series is always the hardest one to sell. So I was delighted it sold a couple weeks after coming out of the museum, from a gallery where it got to hang on its own little wall and didn’t stand out like a sore thumb.
In shipping it to Wisconsin, I got to talking to the client – whom I have not met – and he kept in touch through the reframing and sent me a picture of my baby in its Forever Home. Then he ordered a commission painting to go with it! The sibling went out in the mail today and I will hopefully have a portrait of the two of them together in due course.
“Joshua Evening”
I did two classes in the last couple days, the first one was a watercolor collage workshop in La Quinta, the second one was a Paint and Wine evening in Moreno Valley. Seven people had a lot of fun and created some happy stuff.
Four Having Fun
Some of the results
Underpaintings being finished
Students going off in their own directions
Student going off in her own direction
The students wanted me and my variation in the pic too.
From one palm tree to two. And a hotter morning, likely a summer morning, maybe August with a hot wet wind coming up from the gulf, and the sun about to heat it up some more.
#1243 Firestarter. Refractured watercolor on foamcore, 14×11″ in mat ready for a 20×16″ frame. $195.
So, a week after the reception, talk and workshop, I finally get around to uploading pix from the gallery. I have a solo show in the main gallery of 29 Palms Art Gallery through the end of the month – so if you’re in the high desert, stop by if you can! If you think the workshop looks fun (it is****), I run them elsewhere, or can schedule a private one for a group of the right size in Southern California.
This section was difficult to photograph because I’m shooting into the light. Thank you for photoshop!
The workshop is fun for just about any age.
Little ones getting some help. I was glad Kadence’s Mom stayed around, she is not confident of her abilities.
Older ones getting a little guidance too
“It’s important to dab the excess glue away, otherwise you’ll have a shiny spot.”
Some of the output.
Posing with the little ones and their completed works.
