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| 24 x 36 oil on canvas 2009 You know, Blue Oyster Cult Saturday Night Live skit. This painting hangs in the den of a Fire Marshal. |
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Cowbell for Christopher Walken
The Women of Broadway Numbers 1 through 6
12 x 10 oil on canvas
Should be viewed left to right, not top to bottom.
Limitation of technology,
Photographed these women one day at lunchtime
on Broadway around City Center.
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6Pat and the Blue Chrysler
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10 x 18 oil on canvas 2009 Pat owns Bartertown Framing on 9th Street downtown. |
Mt. Diablo Tryptych: Three Seasons
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30 x 30 oil on canvas 2009 Please excuse the backyard photography. Comtemplated and photographed this subject for a decade, then painted this in four days for entry in the 100th San Leandro Cherry Festival Art Show. The tryptych was in the show and won nothing but admiration. |
Mayor Jerry Brown
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12 x 9 oil on canvas 2003 From a photo of our old mayor, Jerry Brown published in the San Francisco Daily Journal. Jerry Brown was a great Mayor and I support him enthusiastically for Governor in 2010. Our state is doomed with whatsername. |
The Blind Couple of Broadway
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6 x 5 oil on canvas 2003 Back when I was a law librarian in downtown Oakland I rode the number 11 bus home every evening. More often than not, this couple would ride that same bus, and every time they climbed aboard I thought they were a marvelous subject. One day, long after I no longer rode the number 11, I was on Broadway with camera in hand and there they were on the other side of 12th St. waiting for the light. I sold this painting in 2004 to a nice woman from Berkeley. |
Neal Parish, Carla and Baby Ross in Mt. View Cemetery
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12 x 12 oil on canvas 2003 This is from a snapshot of my old co-worker Neal and his new family with his vintage Cadillac ambulance. I superimposed that image, taken in his neighborhood, on a background seen in Oakland's enchanted Mt. View Cemetery. This small painting seen in reality is deeply touching somehow. I feel that it is my best work. |
The Urban Blight Period
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| Urban Blight Oakland : Leftover Lunch 12 x 9 oil on canvas 2003 This is a wall on 8th or 9th Street downtown. Someone tucked their used styrofoam lunch container behind one of the pipes. I loved the bricks. |
The Urban Blight Period
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| Urban Blight Oakland: Parking Lot Graffitti 12 x 9 oil on canvas 2003 When I was a law librarian I parked in this lot every day and looked at this unsightly cash deposit box. This particular rainy day, the whole scene captured my fancy and I snapped a picture. If you look long enough at the flyer pasted up there, you'll see a woman's eye looking back at you. |
The Urban Blight Period
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| Urban Blight Oakland: Junker Yellow Rabbit 10 x 8 oil on canvas 2003 A hoarder in my neighborhood used this broken down yellow VW Rabbit for storage. |
The Urban Blight Period
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| Urban Blight Oakland: Trash Lot 14 x 18 oil on canvas 2003 From a photo taken around San Pablo Ave. and 58th Street. |
Green Sex
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5 x 5 oil on canvas 2003 What (realist) artists do with leftover paint on their palates--they paint abstracts. This was painted with absolutely no subject in mind. When it was done, the blue-green figure on the left looked to me a lot like male genetalia, and the more ochre figure on the right like its female counterpart. No? |
Geranium Leaf
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12 x 16 oil on cardboard 1998 Plein aire effort from a very hot summer afternoon in the back yard. The geraniums were dying back from the heat and this leaf engaged my eye. |
Melanie Belli's Mother and Uncle Romeo at Thanksgiving
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20 x 16 oil on canvas 1998 Painted from a snapshot my friend Melanie had of her mother and uncle. I found it compelling and had to paint the scene. |
Two-Color Nude
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8 x 12 oil on canvas 1998 Painted from the model in a class given by Anthony Holdsworth. Beginning painters were allowed first one color of their choosing (I chose orange) plus black and white. Next we could add one more color (I chose violet). This is the two-color study that resulted. |
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