When is a Painting Finished?

Okay, so it's hard for me to know when to leave "well enough alone." I have done some touches to the painting, "Morning Has Broken" and I think I like it now. Please see when I darkened the clouds first and then see when I lightened the sun's rays.

You can also see that I gold leafed the ball or sun as it needed a little more definition. This painting is called,"Morning Has Broken" after the song.

This is now ready to be in the "Then Sings my Soul" which will begin October 1, 2010, Sunnyvale Art Gallery, 251 West El Camino Real, Sunnyvale and will go to West Valley Presbyterian on October 29, 2010. "Then Sings My Soul" will be at WVPC, Cupertino, Until November 28, 2010.

"Morning Has Broken"

I have worked with another piece of Styrofoam. This time I decided to use reflective material, but no embedded lights in the work. I don't know if this comes across, but the "sun" is a ball similar to a snow-globe with glitter inside. I hope it is effective for a feeling of a sunrise.

I chose to use a view from the Marin Headlands with the background of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge. I am hoping you get the awesome feeling when the sun just peeks through the clouds (or fog) as may be the case. I'm showing you tow images. One is where I made a few adjustments to tighten up the painting. I think it looks better. What do you think?

This painting will be going into a show at the Sunnyvale Art Gallery in October about favorite hymns. One of my favorite is "Morning Has Broken." what is your favorite inspirational song?

Eclipse begins a new Heavenly Series

I have just started with a new "sculptural painting" I call Eclipse. Only a few people have seen it, but I have received really a wonderful response. There are LED lights embedded into the piece giving a glow of an eclipse as real as it could be.

In August, 2008, Andre and I witnessed a solar eclipse in the high desert country of China. It lasted only a couple of minutes. However, the light in the sky became very eerie, and it was so amazing. One could see how ancient people were often terrified of eclipses and saw them as bad omens.

Please see this one as a heavenly creation of God in the sky. I hope to follow up with more heavenly pieces showing sunrises and lightning and galaxies and so much more.

The Eclipse will be shown at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City for the month of August and September through the Arts of the Covenant exhibition called, "The Light of the World."

This is the hummingbird canvas and I can't tell why I'm having so much trouble loading the pictures of my small canvases. I have some of these offered on Ebay as well. Hope you can find a place for these.

Small with large impact

Here is another small painting of a hummingbird with a flower and you can see the faux-jewels. These are lots of fun mixing into a wall of photographs to lighten up the heaviness of all pictures.

Something happened and there were no pictures that were downloaded. Let me try again. I want to show my small paintings that are no larger than 4 X 5 inches and are canvases painted on the edges and decorated with faux-jewels and tiny flowers.

Curvilinear as the texture of folk art.

October 17, 2009 the Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society begins the annual show. This year the theme is, "Linear Visions." It is a large show with over 110 participants. For a well-attended, community event, come to the reception on Sunday, October 25, 2009 from 1-4pm. The SCVWS does have great food and wine for the announcement of awards. This year the juror is Christopher Schink an artist well-known as a consummate professional.

The address is the Rose Shenson Gallery on the grounds of the Triton Museum

1550 Warburton Avenue

Santa Clara, CA 95050

The show is open every day from 11-5pm

Linear Visions closes November 17, 2009

This painting, which is a reference to folk-art, is called "Curvilinear". There are quilters in South America that make molas with fabulous, colorful stitching that twists and turns on the women's blouses. I chose to make the wavy lines and details in a similar manner and that is the entry for "Linear Vision." I hope you can come to the show.