My art is being shown at these venues: the Point Reyes Visitor Center has 3 of the original Blue Heron pictures hanging, as well as four of my abstracts, and will be shown through the end of April. The Blue Herons series and setting for a beautiful nature area seem to be a match made in heaven.
My jazz art is at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz through the end of May. Five originals and 2 giclee prints now grace the walls of what is probably the best jazz venue around, excepting the Oakland Yoshi’s. Keeping America’s Classical Music alive is a noble task, and I’m happy to do my part.
Lastly, a great commission has come in that I’m most excited about: 20 pen and ink with wash drawings of jazz giants for Bodil Niska’s BareJazz store in Oslo, Norway. Ms. Niska, who is also a fine tenor sax player with a ravishing, deep tone, sells 20% of all the jazz recordings sold in Norway. She will make these drawings into gift cards that will fit in with CDs purchased as gifts . The style of these drawings will be something like a combination of Al Hirschfield/David Levine and my looser sketch pad style. It’s a style I have not done before, but I can see it clearly already, and will also see it through the print process. I feel fortunate to be doing this!
That’s my news in the art world for the month of April; thanks for reading this and supporting art.
The Blue Herons are showing at the Pt. Reyes Visitor Center, and my jazz art is showing in Santa Cruz, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. That’s good. As for commissioned work, I’m now on the second of 3 illustrations that will somehow tie the Lang jewelry store in with April 15th (that’s tax day, in case you forgot). I’ve also just completed an anniversary piece for a man who will present it to his wife on their anniversary in two days. The art pretty well sums up their last 14 years, since they met. And, I’ve gotten commissioned to do my first Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) in a decade, and I’m excited about that. Each piece I work on uses about every bit of concentration and creativity I can muster, and I usually try to do at least one new color, style, approach on each piece, to keep it fresh and interesting for me. For example, on the Lang card’s frontpiece, my client said, “let’s have the scene lit as if by one bare bulb at the top”, which lead to a lovely, soft, warm Disney-esque circa 1940 glow. Now that I established that look and feel for the front, I’ll need to carry it through to the other two pieces involved. It’s all most rewarding, and the way I have always wanted my life and work to be: intertwined and stimulating.
The Blue Herons, among a few abstract pieces, will be hanging at the Point Reyes Visitor Center for the next two months! Stop by and see these original pieces in this beautiful location!
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It’s easy to create an architectural type rendering from an existing structue, not so easy when it is yet to be built! Working with the realtor, and the floor plans, I created this dimensional, shaded home in its context, with a bit of landscaping to make it look like a great place to live, and to purchase - ideally now, before the foundation has even been dug! If my drawing helps her list and sell this property, I’ll feel that it’s a job well done. She will eventually give the original art to the buyer as a gift.