my mother's birthday is today

Happy Birthday Mom!

palette

working on an eight foot painting, listening to Tom Waits,
life is good

"studio" today, crow drawing for California Wildlife Center

drawing to donate to California Wildlife Center auction:
Mission: Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Release Imperiled Native Wildlife
http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/home.html

studio July 2009 drawings

crows, rattlers, bat, rat, octopus,
& ed moses

LA Times Review of "Draw the Line" by Leah Ollman

studio June 2009 drawings

wolf & rattler

studio May 2009

in the cabbage patch

mojave: rotten peak

"made in california" exhibition
rumba, santa monica
opening june 25, 2009

pilgrimage: Los Angeles and Vicinity

draw the line
Lora Schlesinger Gallery June 13 - July 25, 2009

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/review-draw-the-line-at-lora-schlesinger-gallery-.html

rattler II

jonquil

3.5" x 4.5"
oil on panel

darkling

10" x 10"
tar & oil on raw steel

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night."

Matthew Arnold

cloak

6" x 12"
beeswax & oil on raw steel

spoon

7" x 7"
oil on panel

montana one

7.5" x 9"
charcoal& watercolor
on text & vellum
on cigarbox

from tunis to arkhangelsk

9.25" x 12"
charcoal on vintage atlas

south dakota

11" x 15.5"
charcoal on vintage road atlas

sound of the snow

12" x 12"
charcoal on
cement on panel

rattler

14 1/2" x 12 1/2"
charcoal on vellum
in vintage frame

in joshua tree

10" x 7"
watercolour
on hot press arches

"I hate flowers, I paint them because
they’re cheaper than models
and they don’t move."
Georgia O’Keefe

blue

17" x 14"
charcoal on
vintage paper

the baltic states

14" x 10"
charcoal on
1939 atlas

ballona

12" x 12"
oil on panel

still

13" x 17"
raw sienna soft pastel
on vintage paper

urban three

8" x 8"
charcoal on cement on panel

urban two

8" x 8"
charcoal on cement on panel

urban one

8" x 8"
charcoal on cement on panel

the searcher

8" x 8"
oil on panel

the seeker

8" x 8"
oil on panel

the finder

8" x 8"
oil on panel

joe goode's bad brush 2

10" x 7"
oil on panel

crow two

8" x 10"
charcoal on vidalon

crow one

8" x 10"
charcoal on vidalon

gray

28" x 36"
oil on panel

"sky is the daily bread of the eyes"
ralph waldo emerson

never got a wish from a bone

7" x 7"
oil on panel

so many pennies in the well

7" x 7"
oil on panel

joe goode's bad brush

7" x 7"
oil on panel

rain

7" x 7"
oil on panel

gone

gone snorkeling

a painting a day: wormbox

4" x 6"
watercolour

a painting a day: stick

4" x 4"
oil on birch

a painting a day: mussel shells

5" x 4"
oil on birch

twilight, same kids running the alley behind studio, progeny of the smoking surfer mother, last stampede before being made quiet and wearing shoes

a painting a day: fish hook

4.5" x 2"
oil on birch

a painting a day: holy water

7" x 4"
oil on birch

a painting a day: yankee handyman

6" x 4"
oil on birch

a painting a day: wings

7" x 4.5"
oil on birch panel

found dead bird in parking lot
carried home to garden
ants did their work

a painting a day: night dahlia

4.5" x 4.5"
oil on birch panel

night in the garden, carried dahlia & sleeping bee into the studio

a painting a day: hooch

7" x 4"
oil on birch panel

a painting a day: luna

7" x 4.5"
oil on birch panel