Tag Archives: collage
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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Richardson Bay
80” x 28” (6.7’ x 2.3’). 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!
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
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:
Dogeater Panel 10i
One night we went to a “nice restaurant in town.” [Beaver Street Brewery, south of the tracks.]
“Me and the wife.” [He talks like a hick in his stories. Also when lying.]
He said, “I’m going to take you here on our anniversary.”
I said, “This is our anniversary. I want a divorce.”
[Close, except for the part where I spill the beans about the day.]
Dogeater Panel 10f
He says he was tight with his crew buddies but that’s all he says about them. He describes what he thinks make have been the last straw for me:
Dogeater Panel 10e
He cut three cords of wood for our unwinterized cabin south of Flagstaff. [Half a cord, and we both did it. He taught me how to use a chainsaw. His daughter was with us. We had fun that day.]
Detail from One Beat-Up George
This is a detail from One Beat-Up George, an unfinished 12″ x 36″ canvas. I ask him what he wants but he won’t say. I may be onto him today.
Dogeater Panel 10d
[Note: He may be happy leaving you with the impression he was so cold-hearted but I’m not. I know he writes a better story than this. Stuff he left out: any reason he might have married me. Why this is bad: because it makes me not care about this narrator who is wasting my time talking about this brainless passionless toothless ex-wife, or (care) about Dogeater, which is a shame because it’s such a great title.]
Dogeater Panel 10c
Flash forward to the following summer, his hotshot crew drove by our honeymoon place on their way to a fire in Oak Creek. Riding in while the townspeople fled. “Damn hot day for a fire,” is all he is thinking and for rhythm says again, “Damn hot day for a fire.”
Dogeater Panel 10b
In Oak Creek on our honeymoon we were mutually bummed the picnic basket we got from one of my friends contained non-alcoholic wine. We both needed a drink.
Dogeater Panel 10a
He starts by saying how my mom wasn’t at the wedding. (She was.) His daughter wasn’t, or his nephew who was bringing her, because his car broke down just outside of Phoenix. His brother lives in Colorodo. But his sister was there. She just happened to be in Sedona attending one of the local New Age metaphysical conferences. We planned the whole thing in four days.