Tag Archives: cityscape
San Francisco Ferry Building (Night)
80” x 30” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Lombard Street
80” x 24” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Golden Gate Bridge
80” x 28” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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829 Grant Avenue (Chinatown, San Francisco)
80” x 30” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Sausalito’s South End
80” x 24” (6.7’ x 2’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Art One’s ad in Phoenix Home & Garden 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue
My Dad texts me, Is this your painting in the Phoenix Home & Garden? And I’m all, PROBably not. And it was! In an ad, 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue, and I have to say it’s just exciting and fun to see my work in magazine print, especially considering all the city scenes I clip from newspapers and magazines and collage into my paintings. Don’t be surprised if this clipping of my painting ends up in one of my upcoming paintings! How full circle is that?!!
But seriously I’m honored that Art One chose a couple of my pieces for this ad; they certainly have a mind-blowing quantity of super interesting and inspiring art. (I’m pretty sure they told me about the ad and I forgot.)
So anyway here is one side of Madame Tussaud’s (left), and 71 Grand Street (lower right circle); details about these pieces are in the previous post.
- Art One Ad, Phoenix Home & Garden 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue
Madame Tussaud’s; Times Square, Noon; and 71 Grand Street
Madame Tussaud’s, Looking East (Side 1 of a double-sided painting), 40″ x 36″, mixed media on panel:
Madame Tussaud’s, Looking West (Side 2 of a double-sided painting), 40″ x 36″, mixed media on panel:
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Time Square, Noon, 27 x 36, mixed media on panel:
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71 Grand Street, 36 x 26.5, mixed media on panel:
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Diving Girl and Mr. Lucky’s
Diving Girl, acrylic, newspaper and mixed media on carved wood panel, 36 x 26 1/2
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and Mr. Lucky’s, acrylic, newspaper and mixed media on carved wood panel, 39 1/2 x 36
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Thank you to Barbara Burghardt Roether for going with me on a scary cloudy gloomy day to the deserted parking lot of Mr. Lucky’s on an especially bleak stretch of Grand Avenue, a strip of wrong side of the tracks that runs diagonally and industrially and strip clubby through Phoenix. Barb took the pictures for me, because she knows what she’s doing with a camera and I do not, while a zombie-looking guy appeared across the lot and walked straight at us, slowly. We got the pictures we could and fled. Thanks so much Barb! It was fun being in the zombie apocalypse with you!
and a bit more about Diving Girl:
The Diving Girl shows up as matchbooks and hood ornaments and neon signs wherever delightful vintag-y things may be found, in a red or blue one-piece, either singly or in threes. There are several iterations of the three-girl sign that lights up girl by girl, apex to fingertips in the water. The one in this painting has been apexing over the Starlite Motel in Mesa, Arizona, since 1958. In October 2011 a massive hailstorm knocked her to the ground and she wound up on display in a mall while funds were gathered for restoration. She’s back in the sky now where she belongs, but for a while we got to see her up close and personal, rivets and all. Here she is on the ground after the storm:
(Those are not my pictures–they were on the display at the mall.)
Here she is at the mall . . .
and here she is again, in my painting in an ad for Art One in the Arcadia News:
More signage to come!
4 New Paintings
216 West 22nd Street, acrylic and marker on canvas, 48 x 60
Essex House, acrylic and marker on canvas, 60 x 48
View from the Spanish Steps, acrylic and marker on canvas, 60 x 48
Siena, acrylic and marker on canvas, 35 1/2 x 48. Darth Vader stencil is made from a photo of a stencil of Darth Vader on a wall in Florence. Stencil graffiti was prominent there and in Venice. Here are some examples, including our friend Mr. Vader. I’m leaving out the x-rated teddy bear.
Darth Vader, Florence
Toaster, Florence
Dice, Venice
Hogre, Rome
501 Castro Street and Castro Theater
501 Castro Street, 60 x 48, acrylic and marker on canvas.
Castro Theater, 48 x 60, acrylic and marker on canvas.
Details, baby, details:
501 Castro Street, Detail 1
501 Castro Street, Detail 2
501 Castro Street, Detail 3
Castro Theater, Detail 1
Castro Theater, Detail 2
Castro Theater, Detail 3
Crowded Panda
Crowded Panda, February 2013, black & white and colored with markers.
New Cityscapes: San Francisco
Started these almost immediately after my November weekend in San Francisco. I put aside everything else I was working on, just wanting to dwell there a bit longer. Working fast and loose, not getting too careful. Could be done this month.
501 Castro Street and Castro Theater, each 48 x 60, marker and acrylic paint/media
2 Days in San Francisco in sketches & notes
62 Prince Street
62 Prince Street. Marker, collage and mixed media on wood panel. 36 x 26 x 1 1/4
I brought this painting to Art One yesterday. It may have a buyer already, a really nice guy who lives in West Chelsea and if he buys it he’s taking it back with him—guess how much I love THAT!
You can see some of the progress in earlier posts here and here.
It’s marker, acrylic paint, modeling paste, and clippings from The New York Times on wood panel, and I carve into it with a linoleum cutter. The carving is a little easier to see in the detail photos (detail 6 especially):
62 Prince Street detail 1
62 Prince Street detail 2
62 Prince Street detail 3
62 Prince Street detail 4
62 Prince Street detail 5
62 Prince Street detail 6
Pizza
Pizza, 16 x 20, marker and acrylics on canvas. Happy Birthday to Todd.
Cortona Fruit Stand and The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano
Cortona Fruit Stand, 26 x 36, Acrylic, marker, and collage on wood panel. From my own photos.
(These were finished and sold months ago but I realized I never posted the finished ones.)
Cortona Fruit Stand Detail 1
Cortona Fruit Stand Detail 2
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, 36 x 26, Acrylic, marker, and collage on wood panel.
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 1
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 2
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 3
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 4
Dot’s
Dot’s, Acrylic & marker on 24 x 36 recycled canvas. At The Shady Dell in Bisbee, Arizona.
Entry sign.
This tiny trailer sleeps two.
Part of the menu. Simple, cheap, and good.
Dot’s at night.
Dot’s in the morning.
The Shady Dell is next to a cemetery.
Empire State from Lex and 34th
Finished the new cityscape, and backtracked in the photos with a side cheat walk on Google streets to figure out where I was when I took the picture. Acrylic, marker, and collage on 24 x 48 used canvas.
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New Cityscape in progress
What I’m working on today: The Empire State Building from probably 5th. Acrylic, marker, and soon-to-be collage on an old painting from Goodwill, a horizontal beachscape, 24 x 48 canvas. You can see some of the tufts of grass and seagulls:
New Venice Painting in progress
Almost done.