You Are The Dream

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Never Say Never

three preliminary paintings = three hours

Chillin'

Workin'
Source: photo composite worked in Procreate

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Source: Life Figure Drawing: Sumi & graphite

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Special moment 

Source: 2012 family photo shoot

Richard's Artist Statement

What year?

His statement pretty much rips my heart out. Maybe a slight over exaggeration.

Artist Statement 2019 - 2020

Autumn Equinox

Changing season: 

to growing, to reinventing, 

to re-defining my inner critics, 

to stepping a little further out on my own.

Visual work facilitates change in my life, 

environment, and thought processes.

Intention: 

Learn to paint with acrylics

using influential subjects.

Flaming I & II

First Acrylics

'Twilight' series

Curiosity

Can I capture twilight color & value? 

(presented in reverse timeline)

'The Lineup' 

the city is under the fog

'under the fog'

Richard's photo captures the hues!*

doesn't look real...

...but it is

material testing

twilight fog

after the glow

Procreate touch up 'on w.c.'

Procreate touch up 

moved from book to w.c. paper

'research'

Can I paint this?

Can I paint this? 

The living room windows face west. We eat our meals at a small table looking out to the San Francisco Bay, and the peninsular 'The City' is built upon. 

(Commentary)

We watched the SalesForce Tower being built. We see its beacon, unfortunately, visible from everywhere, including the return trip from the Farallons, rising higher than the SF hills. 

The sky has had some extraordinary color. I wanted to do sketches, capturing the sequence from after sunset: twilight, civil dusk before nautical dusk. To photographers, the blue hour, lasts about 20 minutes. With 'gesture drawing' twilight in watercolor, I maybe had less than 5 minutes before the sky changed color.

Twilight Zone

I did some research to know what twilight is, when to sit at the table and paint, and set up what I need to paint. It took one evening to figure out working in a watercolor book wouldn’t work! Too wet to turn pages quickly to capture multiple images.

Next night I used previously cut sheets I was making into a book but never sewed together. So, at least I could let the page dry when I started another. 

That worked, but why work so small? So I moved up to quarter sheets taped to the board, with taped borders too. Now a piece is more than a study, going towards a sketch. This is a bit of a breakthrough for me. Using more paper, more paint!

But then the paper started buckling! I recall in the old days stretching paper. It’s a long story. 

Enjoyed the process, and got some fun paintings out of it.

Next, I’m pursuing acrylic painting.

* Volcanoes Turn Twilights Purple - Sky & Telesco

Completed & Cataloged

one year project

“Kalligraphic, Not Precious Protest Series”

Why It Hurts

Why it Hurts*

Chronic Fatigue 1984

Triptych ea. 16” x 20” 

Mixed media collage

Gatorboard

July 14 - August 25, 2019

Anger Madness*

Diptych ea 16” x 24”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

June 24, 2019

Quartet Portrait

4 panels 10" x 10"

Mixed media collage

June 2019

M87 

Diptych ea. 24” x 16”

Mixed media collage

Gatorboard

April 2019

Am Dream*

16” x 24”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

April 2019

Paradise In Oakland*

Margaret

Diptych ea. 7.25” x 7.25”

Mixed media collage: photos, digital art, photo transfer, acrylic  

Mounted on ¼” clear acrylic plexi

March/April 2019

Winter Clouds

Diptych ea. 10” x 10”

Mixed media collage: repurposed paper, acrylic

Acrylic gesso on birch panels

April 2019

Redwoods

10” x 10”

Mixed media collage: photo transfer, acrylic

Acrylic gesso on birch panel

April 2019

Heat & Pressure*

Diptych ea. 16” x 20”

Mixed media collage: photo transfers, acrylics, newspaper

Gessobord

March 2019

Window Seat

Triptych ea. 6” x 8”

Mixed media: Sumi ink, acrylic

Gessobord

Feb 2019

USA 1977 Quartet 

Beatles Anthology

Quartet ea. 9” x 12” 

Mixed media: book, acrylic, glue

Feb - April 2019

Back side of Quartet

Mixed media collage

May - June 2019

Gift

Joel

Triptych ea. 14” x 18”

Mixed media collage: photos, photo transfers, acrylics, paper

Gessobord

Jan 2019

Answers*

16” x 20”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

Dec 2018

Everything* 

Lucinda Williams

Diptych ea. 16” x 20”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

Dec 2018

Crisis*

16” x 20”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

Nov 2018

Faith & Grace*

Lucinda Williams

Diptych ea. 16” x 20”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

Oct/Nov 2018

Process/Reprocess

Triptych ea. 18” x 24”

Mixed media: figurative, Sumi ink, neocrayon, watercolor, newsprint

Watercolor paper

Nov 2018

Excitement *

Triptych  ea. 16” x 20”

Mixed media collage

Gessobord

Sept 2018