My studio is on the Westside of Santa Cruz, California. There is an exhibit of a few artists from this very artistically rich area at the Blitzer Gallery
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Tropical Rain Forest Mural
I’ve been teaching painting techniques and the love of color to some 3rd grade students. The culmination of our painting lessons is to do this mural. For this mural I bought red, yellow and blue paint and all the colors have been mixed by the kids. It is wonderful to see them working and saying things such as I need my purple to be a little darker or to lighten up the orange. There are still 2 more 3rd grade classes that have to paint on the mural for it to be done. I will keep posting
The painting part of the mural is done. This is what it looks like now. We made little clay birds last week and will glaze them this week. These birds will go on the mural in a special way. I will keep you posted.
Finished mural with little clay birds.
Sculptures 2010
It’s in the Pulp: Paper making in Santa Cruz
I am grateful to have been included in this exhibit at the Museum of Art and History. It is a beautiful show and the works are amazing. Must not miss this exhibit.
August7 – November 14, 2010
This paper piece was made with about 6 interlocking layers of abaca paper and fabric; then altered with pencil and acrylic lines and finally completed with the bamboo and clay elements in the top part of the piece.
I’m sad to say this piece is not in the Museum exhibit because it is in another country, but there are others of my works and many by renown artist in the paper arts from our community such as Chuck Hilger, John Babcock, Madelaine DeJollie, Karen Lauhban, and many more.
To see more of my paper pieces check my web link
little clay Birds/Pajaritos en Ceramica
Esta es una presentacion de como hacer pajaritos estilizados en ceramica y terminarlos en terra sigillata.
Terra Sigillata es un proceso donde se aplica una fina capa de un barro muy fino sobre la ceramica y se pule para que resulte un lustre sin el uso de esmaltes.
This is a process presentation on how to make small clay birds and how to finish them with white terra sigillata.
Terra sigillata is a process by which the application of refined slip is used to get a high satin gloss without a glaze, using simple, time-effective polishing methods. In this video I used a very simple recipe to make the sigillata and the polishing is done with just soft rubbing with plastic.
Organic fires
This is an educational video about different methods of doing organic fires.
Images and Titles of 50/50 Horses
These are the images of horses that I painted for the 50/50 Sanchez art Center exhibit in Pacifica California July 30 to August 29.
They are created with a combination of encaustic medium and oil paints.
Horses Horses Horses
These are 36 of the 50 horses that I am making for the Sanchez art center 50/50 exhibit. I’m having a great time letting each image go where it may.
I am using 6″X6″ tiles which I draw with under-glaze pencils and add a splash of color with glaze. After firing the tiles I finish the pieces with encaustic medium and oil paints. I use additive and subtractive methods to achieve a rich, textural surface with a semi-translucent finish that gives the pieces an ephemeral quality.
Here are at last horses 50 total Yeiiiii!!!!!!!
Art for Art
Tonight is the closing of Art for Art. It is an amazing exhibit and you should not miss it. For firts Friday the opening is from 5:30 till 9 pm. Exhibiting artists are: Jody Alexander, Susana Arias, Fran Battendieri, Hildy Bernstein, Linda Christensen, Jim Collum, Myra Eastaman, Sara Friedlander, Jane Gregorious, Jane Harlow, Stephanie Heit, Bridget Henry, Lisa Hochestein, D. Hooker, R.R. Jones, Tobin Keller, Robert Larson, Will Marino, Charles Prentis, Andy Ruble, Joshua Salesin, Rose Sellery, Beth Shields, Robynn Smith, Michelle Stitz, Michel Tsouris, Ann Wasserman, Lynda Watson, Carol Webb, Daniella Woolf. Check us out at www.artforart.org
Horses
This is a presentation of the process I used to create these horse paintings.
The pieces have to be 6″X6″ and the idea is to produce 50 pieces in 50 days.
Thus the title of the exhibit “50/50”
Sanchez Art Center * 1220 Linda Mar Blvd. * Pacifica, California
July 30 to August 29 * Ticketed Preview July 29 7-9 pm * Opening Reception July 30 6-10
I start by making a drawing with an under-glaze pencil, then I use glazes to highlight some areas.
After the tiles come out of the kiln, I paint them with oils and encaustic medium.
I hope you enjoy the process.
This is a link to the wikipedia explanation of encaustic.