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Back to the Marionette Bench
My last marionette was less than a stellar success; handsome fellow(s) but aside from a savasana pose, it proved to be a cumbersome puppets. For starters it is too large for my need, over 20 inches...
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Ready for Delivery
I am about to walk my painting Primavera over to the gallery Liz’s Loft on La Brea for Night Terrors and Day Dreams curated by the talented Renée Fox, it opens this Saturday. The Hero Twins are framed...
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A Day ( and Night) of the Hero Twins ; NSFW, caution marionettes with naughty...
My Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque are now finished and awaiting proper stringing. I don’t anticipate too many problem, my fingers crossed, but in the meantime I thought I would play around with...
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Kaleidoscope, opening soon
I’m delighted that some of my work has been selected for another show , right up the street on La Brea, from where my painting Primavera is being shown at the Loft at Liz’s. The gods are being...
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The Anointing
I had been going through a bit of an arid period in dreamworld lately; and then suddenly an avalanche of evocative images. The following was inspired by one of them. As Sunday was the 18th anniversary...
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showtime in puppetland
My marionettes are finished, now I find the task at hand of photographing them and hopefully in the near future making brief 13 second clips of their escapades. But thus far I have been hampered by...
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The Hero Twins Emerge Again
Yesterday in between a job and printmaking class I sketched in a new painting. My friend, the influential artist Judithe Hernandez (http://www.judithehernandez.com) suggested I paint my recent...
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Labor’s Reward
I recently finished a decorative project for a certain blond mega pop star who everyone pretty much knows; as glamorous as all that may be, I really did not want the project. I do however hold her...
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Genesis
Last evening I finished a new painting, Genesis. As is so often the case my inspiration was the Popol Vuh, the sacrifice and resurrection of the Maize God , the Hero Twins, and the narrative of the...
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Calling Juanito
It seems fitting that today, on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, that the City of Angels should have the blessing of rain. It is a gloriously blustery day as I snugly make this post. Gracias....
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New Moon, New Painting
Last evening I attended a New Moon celebration(see previous post), great fun, but during the day I was at hard at work on a new painting. I made good progress, perhaps Artemis was on my side. I had...
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On Bosworth Field
Part of my studio practice lately has been to work with acrylic on the weekend, putting to canvas images as spontaneously as possible. This practice benefits from my readings which often serve as an...
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Puppetry on Easter Sunday
David and I are experimenting with my marionettes, I’m looking forward to bringing more focus to the project after I finish with this intensive class (two essay assignments this week alone). I...
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Today’s Progress: The Great Demiurge
I feel I am finally nearing the finish line on a large painting I have been working on. Today’s segment being a demiurge character (part of a long complicated personal narrative that I will go into at...
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Open for Critique…kinda
So after much studio time (on and off, over a year) I am at last, pretty close, almost positive, for the moment, finished with my latest paintings. And although I have heard younger artists, seemingly...
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Seizing Sanctimonium, a Primer
My latest painting, a large one (40 by 56″) , large at least for my studio, is at last finished! Hurrah! It has not been an easy birth, unbelievably having been started February of 2014. Link below:...
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