News from the studio

Lower East Side Gallery Crawl

January 27, 2017 - 9:35am

Yesterday my lovely niece Sophie and I had a great afternoon
strolling the LES looking at work, we started on Canal and Orchard
at Miguel Abreu Gallery where they had a cool show of Cuban Socialist Posters

 

From there we headed north walking in and out of a billion galleries.
So many great shows!

I love using the NY Art Beat app to see what's going on.

You Only Ride My Bus, Cousin Gus!!

January 13, 2017 - 9:02am

Super excited about using a CMY palette
I haven't really started yet, it needs to really switch at the beginning of a new painting
looking at stuff differently. I guess the big changes will be that I have never used Magenta as a mixing color

and the idea of going through orange and red with it enthralls
I have shied away from mixing fuchsia and yellow because I think of magenta being so close to purple

and I rarely use cyan/thalo, and when I do it is to go green and not into the red blues
I've never mixed thalo and magenta,
now I'm imagining mixing colors with a fuller rainbow

Yellow
Orange
Red
Magenta
Blue
Cyan
Green

I like to paint bikes because...

January 6, 2017 - 10:32pm

Bikes are beautiful,
& because they’re designed to carry the figure there is something very figurative about them.
Something natural and not, because they are made to fit our proportions.

They make lovely compositions.

There are great frame makers who make beautiful bikes that are works of art to begin with and are wonderful to look at (and paint pictures of)

Bikes get personalized through use, either with deliberate customization or wear and become unique and associated with a person.
I often see my friends bikes locked up outside and know they are around, painting bikes celebrates my community and celebrates cycling.

When people bring me their bikes to paint it is great to learn the ways they are into cycling and always very positive, humbling and inspiring.

Bikes are both unique and universal
They are a powerful symbol of independence.
With a bike you are going somewhere!