Latest Painting

What does graduation day mean to you?

For some people in our family it is a red letter day. One that is full of such mixed emotions that it best avoided. Others, use it as a way to celebrate the person and there academic accomplishments.

My latest painting is working off of a lady stopped in front of me at a light. Here car was bight red. She is alone in the car. Beside her are two balloons. From her side mirror you can tell that she is wearing white tiered earrings. It will be an interesting story for the viewer to piece together. There are plenty of reds in painting so it may become a study in red washes. There are some orange reds and some pink reds, and some value changes in between. I have a 12x24 inch canvas that this should land on.

I also have a couple of squares that will be become a version of the ancient inscriptions on the stones of one of the pyramids in Mexico. These flat depictions are currently displayed at the De Young in San Francisco as part of their Meso Americano exhibit. It will be fun to see what kind of stone like contrast I can generate with the watercolor canvases.

: ) Pat