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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

 

Detail:

 

and Mr. Lucky’s, acrylic, newspaper and mixed media on carved wood panel, 39 1/2 x 36

 

Detail:

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!

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Victoria to La Condesa: 20 Journal Pages

Tourist Shop in Victoria, BC, Canada, February 2013:

 

 

Reg at Ole Brass Rail for Breakfast 4/7/13:

 

 

Esplanade with Todd April 12 2013:

 

 

AMC Dine-In Theatres Menu:

 

 

Switch Restaurant, Breakfast, May 5 2013

 

Switch Decaf and Fruit Bowl:

 

 

Woman at the Vig:

 

Stingray Friday May 24, 2013. Everything came at once from different directions. Todd said: “We are being attacked with Food.”

 

Vig Servers:

 

Malee’s for Todd’s Birthday:

 

 

Malee’s:

 

 

Ivan, our favorite sushi chef at Stingray, July 12, 2013. He works too hard. We say when we’re leaving, Take a break! Take a day off! And he says he will but I don’t think he ever does.

 

The Main Ingredient Ale House and Cafe with Dad, 7/18/13. It’s in an old house at 7th Street and Osborn. Great sandwiches and beer, beautiful patio.

 

Todd at Rainbow Donuts 7/13/13

 

Harrah’s Casino with my sister Barb for her birthday:

 

On my way to Chicago for Mary’s wedding:

 

 

Looking at the magazine on the plane. “Millionize your lashes.” WHAT???

 

In-flight magazine perfume ad:

 

La Condesa Gourmet Taco Shop Salsa Bar. 16th Street and McDowell. Favorite neighborhood restaurant.

 

 

Guy at La Condesa Gourmet Taco Shop, 16th Street near McDowell:

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Crowded Panda

 

Crowded Panda, February 2013, black & white and colored with markers.

 

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Tara, Scott, and Dale at the Vig

 

Tara, Scott, and Dale. Doodling in my Petite Journal.

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Comic Con Phoenix Sketch: Chatting Up the Customers

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Comic Con Phoenix Sketch: Waiting in Line

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