Friday, January 22, 2016
100 Views
Looking up my friend Barbara Thomason again, I came across the surprising and wonderful news that she had a book of her paintings out. I immediately set out to order copies and am delighted with the quality of the book first of all (having been sorely disappointed on the last art book of an LA artist I bought). I am still so excited that I forgot what I was going to write, having written it here and there on posts ....
Friday, January 8, 2016
Hermosa Beach Art Walk -- Summer 2015
I give myself $60 - $100 to spend on art at Fiesta Hermosa and the Art Walk (Art Festival or Fair now -- original prints, for example. This year I have been in the clouds over two pieces that I just had to have and which put me overbudget -- or spent my budget for this year, buying two separate pieces I had to have.
The first, by Robert Brugger, is this "corner view" or "small view," a sort of intimate view of older buildings that I have found myself recording and noticed that my painter friend Don DeLew in Long Beach had started doing.
On the Saturday, I bought this little view of an old house tucked away in Redondo Beach around Robinson and Greene somewhere.
After that, I found this:
an oil pastel of a riptide that I had to have, so I thought about it all night and went back for it the next day. The shape of the rip and the laciness of the sea foam and the varieties of the waves competing over that rip spot pulled me right in (no pun intended). Then, on top of it all -- remember, I painted the ocean surface in the same spot at Marine Stadium for over a year and had ample time to find out about the short medium and long light rays in the water (red, yellow, blue), and this one has the perfect red, yellow..yellow-green...green...blue-green...blue of the light rays in/on the water and this one has it all. In other words, I really appreciate it.
I need to decipher the signature again. This oil pastel was done by a lovely young woman who has a beautiful body of work along this theme in oil pastel.
Both of the pieces I bought in the 2015 Art Walk have similarities to work I do, and/so/yet I had to have them. They were both within my budget (for two Art Fairs).
Taking those two and my budget as models, I set out to do some "quick landscapes" with an eye to selling small ones like these in a similar price range. That was a good idea in terms of the little painting series I turned out; however, they took me as long as any paintings I do: two weeks each, so that idea is out.
The first, by Robert Brugger, is this "corner view" or "small view," a sort of intimate view of older buildings that I have found myself recording and noticed that my painter friend Don DeLew in Long Beach had started doing.
On the Saturday, I bought this little view of an old house tucked away in Redondo Beach around Robinson and Greene somewhere.
After that, I found this:
an oil pastel of a riptide that I had to have, so I thought about it all night and went back for it the next day. The shape of the rip and the laciness of the sea foam and the varieties of the waves competing over that rip spot pulled me right in (no pun intended). Then, on top of it all -- remember, I painted the ocean surface in the same spot at Marine Stadium for over a year and had ample time to find out about the short medium and long light rays in the water (red, yellow, blue), and this one has the perfect red, yellow..yellow-green...green...blue-green...blue of the light rays in/on the water and this one has it all. In other words, I really appreciate it.
I need to decipher the signature again. This oil pastel was done by a lovely young woman who has a beautiful body of work along this theme in oil pastel.
Both of the pieces I bought in the 2015 Art Walk have similarities to work I do, and/so/yet I had to have them. They were both within my budget (for two Art Fairs).
Taking those two and my budget as models, I set out to do some "quick landscapes" with an eye to selling small ones like these in a similar price range. That was a good idea in terms of the little painting series I turned out; however, they took me as long as any paintings I do: two weeks each, so that idea is out.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
An Oven for Christmas
Christmas morning my girls got a wonderful surprise. I found it at the Antique Barn sidewalk sale during Fiesta Hermosa Labor Day this year. It is a very early electric oven for dolls: the cord is frayed. It is the cloth style from appliances of the 1930s.
Delilah Noir, in a mix of two of her outfits (pictured in an earlier post) and Gabby Field, also featured in an earlier post, are enjoying Christmas morning 2015 here.
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