This morning I just took myself out for coffee with the newspapers and my little current drawing book called “Map of the Table”… and I STARTED to draw, but there was a “lady” having one of those HORRIBLE loud cell phone conversations that overtakes a huge area and everyone in it….eek…do you know those people […]
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Anne’s Quilt: Reality vs Abstract
Last fall I was in California with Carolyn, setting up an installation and show at the Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg (“ART Laundry”). I showed 2D work, but also quilts, and gallery owner Anne Beck was curious about the process. “How do you make a quilt?” she said…I said…”you just start.” We struck […]
13 Hats at 12 X 16
It was a beautiful day for looking at art today (…and what day WOULDN”T be a beautiful day for looking at art???) so we jumped into the car and headed to the artist’s reception at 12 x 16 Gallery. The show there this month is by a collaborative group called “13 Hats”(…but really there are […]
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
BE MINE!
Hey readers…here’s a recent perfect Valentine’s coffee…wish I was sitting across from you sipping the beautiful brew…(I raise my cup)… …but instead I’m doing stuff like this: using Borax and a “color remover thingie” (Mary’s technical term) to get out the red bleed on the recovery quilt, registering my lost baby quilt (thanks to Bill […]
Quilt News…the Good News First…
I finished the “recovery quilt”…(even though the recovery itself lags behind…)! I started the quilt in August using some hand-dyed fabrics from Mary and a sheet from Value Village… I added on to it this fall until it was big enough to be a “real” quilt… …and then started quilting it. For me only, the […]
BUSY WEEK…
We zoomed to Portland this past week for a sleep-over…the weather was mostly like that pictured in this Michael Brophy painting… but spirits were high anyway. We visited Sara, checked in to our hotel of choice and headed over to Henk’s opening at Laura Russo. The paintings are gorgeous, big, full of drama. (As it […]
1% for ART!
In 1975 our state mandated that 1% of the cost of every new building (or major rehab) be spent on art for that building. This results in two very good things: #1 it assures quality art contemporary to each building to enhance the building itself and #2 it builds a strong collection, long term, for […]
Stamina-building, Day 4
That’s really what this week is about…starting to walk, and building stamina…but in the most fun possible way. Today’s “work” began with a sunny-day breakfast with some artist friends, including Violet, who got right to work with crayons… and then getting the quilt (for the soon-to-arrive Seattle baby) safely into his grandmother’s hands… After lunch […]
The Beautiful Inversion
Most days we go out for a drive-through coffee…and some days we take a little drive-about. This week we’re having an “inversion” where fog and smog blanket our valley, blocking out the sun and casting a weird spell across the land…gray, slightly depressing, but oddly compelling…
On The Way 