Yay!!

Happy birthday Adam!! I hope you have a great day!

L A Trip

We took an adventurous, fun and stimulating art trip to LA. Saw lots of museums and galleries (Margo Leavin, Regan Projects, Gagosian, Blum & Poe) plus a covey of galleries for emerging artists along La Cienega Blvd and Washington Blvd in Culver City. We enjoyed our visit with Ross and Kathy including a royal wood shop tour, and we visited some friends of Don at their studio in South Pasadena. We even ran into a friend from Honolulu on our first day and a couple of friends from Vancouver on our last day. We also loved the music at Disney Hall and the architecture was fabulous.

A mural in progress, Culver City

Don zeros in

Lynne takes a stand

A painting by Ed Ruscha from his Psycho Spaghetti Western show. 

An artisan in his Fullerton garage

Latest Work

This piece is Box Elder Burl from Utah, which I purchased in LA. The wood is dull white and not very pretty, so after shaping the outside form and then hollowing, I added color. First, a reddish brown to the inside, the top and bottom, and a little around the holes. Then bright red over the brown and beyond onto more bare area. Then orange beyond that, and finally yellow. Some of the brown sprayed to the inside bled through the wood and created streaks that highlighted the grain - that's called dumb luck. Applying all the color to the outside took about 15 minutes - then I realized adding more would not be good - more luck. Anyway, I'm really pleased with it and plan to enter it into the county fair this summer.

Some Recent Work

Some months ago the club had a challenge to make something that would fit inside an 8" cube. So I made this Pine Cone Vase. It is much thinner than the last one, so it is translucent.

Happy Birthday Breanne!

Welcome Spring!

The day before yesterday we hit our first 70 degrees of the year. I was almost in tears! It was so beautiful! I sat outside with the kids (and the rest of the neighborhood) - who could stay in!

By mid-afternoon yesterday clouds rolled in covering our beautiful blue skys, and by evening it started to rain!  But what happened next I never suspected! (Who believes the forcasters around here anymore!)

So I got up at 1:00am, looked out the window and saw the biggest snow flakes ever ....falling falling falling!  I feel like Dorothy, or Alice in Wonderland, or anyone else who's been lost in a crazy world!

And this is what it looks like this morning! I sware the dog is as perplexed as we are!  Sisters, what time should this all be melted by today? 3:00pm? Maybe sooner! Its just the way it is out here!