Tuesday, December 7, 2021

DREAM PALMS

 Here you can see the painting of four unique palm trees with details of the leaves, the painting was created on the iPad on site in the city of Angels. This piece is part of a series of finely detailed digital paintings depicting the palm tree as integral to the unique California landscape.

I have always loved painting palm trees and trying to capture the feeling of the slender trunks and spindly fronds.

The palm tree has the scientific term of Arecaceae and is part of family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

Palms are among the best known and most extensively cultivated plant families. In many historical cultures, palms were symbols or icons for such ideas as victory, peace and fertility.

DREAM PALMS <violetquartet>



Monday, November 15, 2021

Sunday tennis lessons in the cool November air

 




 "I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.”

- Naomi Osaka.


 

Friday, October 29, 2021

Pioneers in Design IIDA event with Liz Ogbu speaking about design activism.

 Here are my hand drawn visual notes from the Pioneers in Design event last night for IIDA … ENJOY!  Trying to capture the energy of the wonderful design activism of Liz Ogbu from Studio O.  She is a doer, thinker, a spatial justice activist, an architect, a designer, a social innovator and a person who cares about the people and she is designing in the apocalypse.




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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Reopen the outdoor studio after the rains



After the rains, opening up the outdoor studio to dry and looking at the landscape with a new fresh eye and a very fresh mind …
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#アート #美術 #びじゅつ #ランドスケープ #dreamy #clouds #aftertherains 








 

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

IIDA design in motion event

Thanks for the invite to the committee for the East Bay chapter of IIDA Northern California, I had the pleasure to do a live painting on site, show some of my recent gouache painting work, and finally see some faces that I have not seen in more than a year or so, such a terrific and truly fun event!  



 

Passing of Richard Serra the artist

 Richard Serra has passed away and I have retrieved one of my site walk watercolors from his piece installed at the Oliver ranch.  Art slows...