Have a Happy Few Months and Then...

...come during the weekend of June 4th and 5th to my studio during the Long Beach Mid-City Studio Tour! I'd love to see you.  For more information, visit our tour's website at midcitystudiotour.com.

Six by Six: Meditations (2), 2010

collage, ink, watercolor, pastel, 6"x6"

one of a series of 36 collages

I'll be back to this blog after the tour.

5th Biennial Long Beach Mid-City Studio Tour Coming Soon!

Please join us for a self-guided artists' studio tour the first weekend in June! Free, open to the public. 11- 5 on Saturday and Sunday, June 4th and 5th. For more information about the fifteen participating artists and their work, visit our informative website at midcitystudiotour.com.

A Little Humor

Here's a bumper sticker I saw today:


I AM PRO NOUN

I'm Back!

Spent some time in Arkansas with my parents. They are doing well, thank you!

You can see this sign in the Las Vegas airport. I was both surprised and disconcerted by it, but hope it will be as ineffective as the sign I saw on the LBCC campus yesterday:

Hope you are having a good day!

All Our Good Wishes Focus On Japan

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

by Hokusia Katsushika, 1760-1849

These Just In...

Advanced screenprinters have finished Project 2, which involves using found or cut shapes with photo-emulsion to create nonobjective images. I think their results are stunning...

Sam Buenrostro

Melvin Mantanona

Amy Caves

Pablo Sandoval

Noah Gonzalez

Noah Gonzalez

"My Kid Could Do That"

A painting by Cy Twombly, one of my

 favorite abstract artists.

Researchers at Boston College conducted a study in which art students and non-experts were asked to judge which painting was better in each of a series of two in which one was created by a professional artist and the other was created by a child or animal. Even when  labels were reversed, participants preferred the professional abstract painting. So, it is more true that "my kid couldn't do that."