San Geronimo Valley community center spring art show

 

Yosemite Falls, watercolor, watercolor pencil, 6 x9”

 

4 watercolors, 6x9”

I did four Michael’s Zoom watercolor classes in one day, each class involved a different technique, so they’re wildly unrelated.

This watercolor was saved by adding the drawing on top.

Watercolor based on an Egon Schiele painting

Elephant Mountain, tempera on cardboard, 6 x 18"

I was teaching a Paintnight class after the Van Gogh immersive exhibit. I discovered that the Dollar Store Prang tempera paints were so watery and transparent they might as well have been finger-paint. This was a demo model I tried to salvage. But the paint was so thin, it buckled the cardboard. Since the cardboard was long and skinny, I just kept adding extra humps to Elephant Mountain. The piece knocked around in the back of my car for a few months before I rescued it.

After Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit, Sunflowers, and Starry Night, Tempera 18x24" (SGVCC Spring Art Show)

First time I’ve entered a painting in an art exhibit before it was dry.

 

Mt. Tamalpais from Corte Madera, from an old photo, acrylic 6x8”

Take two. Gallagher Ranch, Black Mountain, Point Reyes, acrylic painting, 8x10”

Gallagher Ranch, Black Mountain, Point Reyes, acrylic painting, 11 x 14”

Revised foreground, still needs more work.

Barboni Ranch, Tree and Rock, Hick’s Valley, acrylic painting 8x10”

Barboni Ranch, Tree and Rock, Hick’s Valley

Curious to see who had shared my post of this particular painting on Facebook, I followed a thread and found this unexpected compliment:

Marc - These are beautiful paintings. I actually have a Maurice Del Mue painting that has a very similar feeling. During recent fire evacuations it was the second thing I grabbed. Of course Henry was number one!    —Rick

Agreed Rick. The artist’s name is Mo Hurley. She is also a very interesting thinker and writer. I always enjoy her work, both literary and artistic.
—Marc Nassar

Marc Nassar is a Facebook friend I met long ago in Cazadero at a poetry reading fundraiser. We lost touch and it took a while for me to realize we knew each other. I had posted some old photos of poets from the late 1980s, which was his deck! It was this photo of Marc and Jim Dodge that led me back to Marc, who lives in Portugal. Facebook works in mysterious ways.

Of course, the art show was held at the Maurice del Mue Art Gallery, which hosts his WPA mural in the office hall of my grade school, now the San Geronimo Valley Community Center. Talk about circular file. So, who was Henry? Miller? Matisse?

Spirit Rock, acrylic on canvasboard 8x10”, painting, art

I began a pastel which was an epic fail, so I touched it up with paint. So it’s really mixed media.

Spirit Rock, 8x10” acrylic

White’s Hill, 6x8” acrylic, and wet pastel

“Where We Call Home,” San Geronimo Valley Community Center, October, 2019.

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 10"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 10"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboardl, 10 x 15"

Nicasio Reservoir, tempera on cardboard, 10 x 20"

In-class teaching demos, Klee inspired “quilts”, each piece is 18 x 24" on sulfite paper, tempera, 2008

These pieces were recombined in infinite possibilities. Sometimes I had students make those decisions. And when we had a show-and-tell critique of their own work, they'd rearrange their pieces too. I like the collective thinking process.

Teaching samples, Klee inspired “quilts”, tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, Klee inspired “quilts”, tempera, 2008, Literrata link

Teaching samples, tempera landscapes, 2006-2007,from a Facebook album, Literrata link

Teaching samples, tempera landscapes, 2006-2007, Literrata link

Abstract Sky, acrylic on masonboard, 2 x 3'