Christmas Windows

Here's some photos of the windows we painted with the Art Club. I only included myself and buddy Larry who I teach with. I didn't want to show students online...It was a fun charity event for us. The students were great helpers..everyone was hard working and creative.

Gallery Space

I finally took a step to get on a gallery wall here in Phoenix! Thanks to Jane, my niece, who introduced me to Randy the owner of Red Dog Gallery. He saw some of my work on my website and is going to hang some in his gallery. This is fun as I haven't been in a gallery in ages! I will be going down with a few pieces just in time for First Friday. He likes zany animal pieces and surrealism so the recent little ones will be perfect. If you are in town go check it out on Friday!

Community Service

Tomorrow I will be up and out early for a Saturday. Some dedicated Art Club members and Larry my buddy art teacher will be with me as we paint a Winter Scene on some big storefront windows. We are doing it for a group that puts on Christmas parties for needy kids. They will have a few hundred kids there for a nice holiday that they might not get otherwise. It is nice to be able to do our part to help...Hope we get it all done in one morning though as squeezing in this sort of thing is hard after school. I will post some pictures of how it goes.

This Week's Paintings

This week I did a painting...(Why can't I get them from landing sideways????) that was inspired by a blog by Karin Jurick who takes a photo and then everyone paints it and sends her the image. It is fun to see what people come up with. I did this sideways walking lady which reminded me of a Hopper motif.
Then I did the crazy who is afraid of quantom physics chicken painting...It seems to make sense to me...

Time is Like an Onion

This is another 12x12" acrylic done at school. I enjoy doing these little paintings at my desk. They make the days go by so much faster! I get the kids working and then pick up my brush. It is nice to have pretty good classes to work with instead of babysit. I have a couple of kids who need to be monitored, but most are busy doing their art. I used a glaze to separate the onion from the land and add a bit of shadow to the dinosaur egg. This is all about time being in layers like an onion...are we adding to the layers or peeling them away?

Kelli's Graduation

This was Kelli's graduation picture...She is now in intermediate obedience class...I hate to imagine what would have happened without classes! She can be a handful! But she also is a great cuddly baby once she is settled down for the day.

The Key

This little painting is another 12x12" acrylic called "The Key". The students were asking what does it mean and I tried to have them think of their own meanings. I guess I thought how you get home and maybe the rock you took helps transport you back to a special place. Then the key maybe is how nature helps you seek enlightenment and answers... So nice to sneak in some work during the school day...

Work week

Snuck a painting into the work week. It is called "I Dreamed of the World" which is a little surrealist image..sort of a global warming message. I haven't painted fire before and it was fun...