Moving Right Along -

I've been working on my still lifes trying to get enough paintings for a show.  The painting of "Billy & Minnie" sold to a graphic designer in San Francisco who also is a set designer so I know it has a good home.  My new series are like sets in a way.   In the theater the cast follows the action of the script and the story unfolds.  For a story I use images I find in newspapers, magazines and books.  My paintings echo the photographs but use toys to replace the people in the pictures.  I don't change the dolls and puppets to look human...it's a still life... they are what  they are and the script changes from viewer to viewer.

Here is one of my paintings from last year that uses size and your expectations of what should be.  It's a 3 feet by 5 feet, oil on canvas of a 5 inch tall squeak toy.  The toy makes the tiniest of noises!

A new series of paintings

"Billy & Minnie" 

These guys were in a show along with 200 other pieces at the Berkeley Art Center that was reviewed by Kenneth Baker January 5th in the Chronicle.  His review "'Wonder'-small scale submissions provoke big curiosity" invited the reader to imagine the "onerous dilemma" of contemporary artists' in choosing a piece for the show. No dilemma here. I thought it was a strong painting that represented a new direction for my still life's..... and it was the right size!