2 pastels, chalk, 8x9”, oil 6x9”, abstract, 2023

Talking myself out of a rage, the tweeny art therapist was a twit. Know your audience!

I was irritated by a UCLA art therapist talking down to us in a CPITS Zoom class.

 

More candles, oil pastel 9x12”

Loma Alta, oil pastel, 9 x 12"

An impasto reworking of an earlier failed oil pastel. Still failed but I like the shapes.

 

Four candles, oil pastel 9x12”

My first class with Michael’s and I didn’t have oils, so I improvised.

Nicasio oak & rock, oil pastel on black matboard, 5x7”

Oil pastel heart 9 x 12" no idea of date, class demo

 

Little Sur River, 2013, oil pastel, 9 x 12"

Even with the failures I learn something. Another book cover idea. But I'd need to flip it.

 

Russian River mouth at Jenner, 2013, oil pastel, 9 x12"

Russian River mouth at Jenner, 2013

 

Mola inspired drawings, oil pastel, 2008, Literrata link

Mola inspired drawings, oil pastel, 2008, Literrata link

In-class teaching demos. Mola inspired oil pastel drawings, 8.5 x 11" 2008

 

“Gilding the Lily, Willy, Chilly” 12 x 14” oil pastel and collage

This piece was once adorned in red chili peppers, it was for Sonoma State Art from the Heart auction. It did not sell. Nor did it age well. What you can’t see is that I used silver oil pastel to gild the lily. And of course, the title was based upon that rather bad pun. Maybe I should’ve said geld the lily.

2 flower pastels, tulip chalk pastel, & calla lily oil pastel, 9x 12” undated 1990s

I found these drawings in an old art pad, no idea as to the date probably ca. 1990? My art piece for SSUs Art from the Heart is to the right. I also made a pen and ink drawing of those tulips in the late1980s, perhaps 1990....how I know this, is the hard floppy disk on the stand. Hard floppies were introduced in 1986, and designer color ones around 1989ish. Pastel portrait, tulips, no date ca. 1996, Literrata link

Don Campbell just published my old tulip pastel as well as the extra heart pastel that I included called, believe in love on his Feb. 2023 Spring Spectrum blog. It’s nice to get my old art work out into the world, rather than languishing on the hard drive.