The Smoking Goat

You never know where your creative endeavors will take you, i.e. a commission for a wooden goat. The Smoking Goat restaurant was doing a little design upgrade and they were looking for something to be placed in a nook just outside the lobby/entranceway of the restaurant.

Thanks to Anna at Radiant Design for setting it up. A few pictures of the goat carved from alder wood, I layered a number of different stains on the wood starting with a whitewash and slowly working darker in the carved areas to a walnut finish and then back to a lighter wash. The bistro has a number of different copper accents and copper lighting so I used copper foil for the hooves and horns.

If you get to North Park in San Diego check out the restaurant and the goat located at 3408 30th Street. I’ll post a few photographs once it has been installed later this week, for now these photos were taken at my studio. Overall it measures about 36 inches tall and about 34 inches wide.

 

…and here is the goat installed at the front door to the restaurant, at home in his little niche guarding the mail and greeting customers.

Free Lunch

Free Lunch, well sort of – make a small contribution at the door to benefit North Park for the Arts.

New Video from Places for Souls

Two videos from the second performance of “Places for Souls” on 4/13/13 at the San Diego Art Department. The performance took place over 4 hours during the closing reception of my art show Fragments from the Garden. There are 2 versions; one a 2-minute mini version and the other version a longer 20-minute video.

Places for Souls: The Plains of Tession. Performance art created by Kevin Greeland, performed by Wallpaper Performance Company, dance performers Jennifer Oliver and Alicia Peterson-Baskel, choreographed by Alicia Peterson-Baskel and sound environment by generative sound designer Blair Robert Nelson. The work functions as a “séance” of sorts, in which dance performers act as mediums to engage the spirits from “The Plains of Tession” a pseudo-space within the garden, adding a little twist of Dada to the performance.

The premise of the work is …
In searching for souls there is a folklore tradition of sorts that has a living person seated on a kitchen chair (the kitchen is seen as the heart of the body of a home) placing their feet in the shoes of a deceased person and then stepping (submerging) their feet into a pale/washbasin of water allowing the living to crossover and commune with the departed soul. The water should be spring water or hand drawn from a well and grounds the person so they may return back to the earthly realm. I push this one step further in that the blended séance is not just a crossover to engage the souls of the deceased but the soul of the actual garden home or temple, with the identity (soul) of the garden temple and garden home and with its previous ancestral structures.

Every Dog Needs a Hero and Stag Boy

Every Dog Needs A Hero

Stag Boy

 

Video of Performance “Places for Souls”

Places for Souls: The Plains of Tession. Performance art piece created by Kevin Greeland, performed by Wallpaper Performance Company, dance performers Dina Apple and Jennifer Oliver, arranged by choreographer Alicia Peterson-Baskel and sound environment by generative sound designer Blair Robert Nelson.

The performances occurred on March 15th and April 13th, 2013 at the San Diego Art Department in San Diego, CA.

The Performance was divided in 3 sections each about 20 minutes in length and was designed to be somewhat spontaneous. Each section represented the different facets of the “séance, the meditating and connecting, then the contact and exchange and the final section the breaking apart and exhaustion after the encounter. The overall performance was about an hour; the video is but 2 minutes of that performance.

The premise of the work is …

In searching for souls there is a folklore tradition of sorts that has a living person seated on a kitchen chair (the kitchen is seen as the heart of the body of a home) placing their feet in the shoes of a deceased person and then stepping (submerging) their feet into a pale/washbasin of water allowing the living to crossover and commune with the departed soul. The water should be spring water or hand drawn from a well and grounds the person so they may return back to the earthly realm. I push this one step further in that the blended séance is not just a crossover to engage the souls of the deceased but the soul of the actual home, with the identity of the house and with it’s previous ancestral structures.

The Collectors find a home in Fragments from the Garden.

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland 

March 15 – April 14, 2013 

The Collectors Congregational Portraits from the Acquisito Order with apothecary vessels for tithing.

Discovered in the parlor of a later style garden period home, presumably a member of the Acquisito Order.

Forty-eight photographs mounted on wood panels with acrylic encaustic and 48 tithing bottles, various types of knot work and crochet, along with right-angle bead weaving using glass and Swarovski crystal beads. Found and reconstructed farm style side table and two wooden chairs.

  

  

Four examples of the encaustic photographic prints mounted to wood panels using acrylic encaustic techniques. Each measures 6 x 8 inches.

A visitor to the Fragments from the Garden show observing the installation: The Collectors Congregational Portraits from the Acquisito Order with apothecary vessels for tithing.

Jarlath Ki Gree and Glendan Ta Gree

Two clay busts featured in the Fragments from the Garden show.

Jarlath Ki Gree, the elder.

Jarlath Ki Gree, the elder.

Believed to be the eldest of the statesman after Kearin Ki.

Raku clay – pit fired, 13.5 inches high and 11.5 wide.

———————————————————————————————-

Glendan Ta Gree

Glendan Ta Gree

Thought to be the first nobleman who oversaw the third design and development of the garden area surrounding the Puer Garden Temple.

Raku clay – pit fired with additional stain, about 7.5 inches high and 9 inches wide.

Remembrance – The words of your ancestors.

Remembrance – The words of your ancestors.

Believed to be some type of reliquary for the remembrance of loved ones.

Glass containers, tin photographs, string, twigs, bones and gelatin capsules, and diary pages. The diary pages (words written by the ancestors) were torn into small sections and placed inside the gelatin capsules. One pill each year was ingested at a feast on Remembrance Day, eating ones history.

In the Beginning – Creation Myth

In the Beginning – Creation Myth from Fragments from the Garden

Attributed to a Creation Myth, possibly pre-Garden Period (Dark Land) found in south entranceway near Tibur.

The small heads are Raku clay and pit fired; larger head is Paper Clay and supported by a tomato cage, burned with a torch and stained with tea and yerba mate.

   

Meditations for the Journey (2)

Meditations for the Journey (2) was created and displayed in the fall of 2012, (see earlier postings). It was always meant to part of a larger body of work, it is so time-consuming to construct that it is unlikely they’ll be another–in this case it was presented with the Fragments from the Garden show. The walls for the show were painted a dark taupe color, which really helps to pop the sculpture and highlight the details.

This sculpture is the 2nd of a design that I first created in 2008 and subsequently sold. The second time around resulted in a few modifications and design improvements. The sculpture is made from Rudraksha seeds, metal armature, casting plaster/Hydrocal, paint and hair.

The sculpture consists of a large metal armature constructed in the shape of a cone, 8 metal rods welded together. There is a relationship to Buddhist stupa and the sacredness of the number 8 (The stupa is the oldest Buddhist religious monument and was originally only a simple mound of mud or clay to cover relics of the Buddha).

The metal cone is covered in a shawl of Rudraksha seeds–the seeds were all woven together using a right angle bead weaving technique. It took nearly a month to drill holes in all the seeds and then weave them together over the armature using FireWire.

 

The Founders – Fragments from the Garden

The Founders – Fragments from the Garden

Attributed to the Academy of Knowledge and Light, the early academic founders of literature, natural sciences and astronomy.

 

Glass bell jar, found objects, constructed elements, hand dyed doylies, keys, tassels and encaustic photographs printed on watercolor paper.

LITERATURE

NATURAL SCIENCES

 

ASTRONOMY

The Arrival of Antinous

The Arrival of Antinous

Wood easel with a print of Antinous and a small bundle of fresh twigs from the “Great Tree.” This effigy is used to welcome Antinous and ensure a beautiful and fruitful spring.

Wood easel, waxed print on watercolor paper, twigs and artificial plants bound together with string, hand dyed doyley and glass bell jar and ceramic saucer.

 

Silver Toothed Vulpes & Insero Plant

This work was included in the Fragments from the Garden show, with any expedition of exploration to a mysterious garden there needs to be a few bones and some rare plants.

Silver Toothed Vulpes & Insero Plant

Found skull, silver paint, doyley, and artificial plant.

Fragments from the Garden

What sorts of objects would one find in the Garden of Paradise if it were to be discovered? In this new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects and historical relics have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first and mixes those elements together.

Inspired by the scientists & naturalists of the Enlightenment and the art patrons whose collections formed the basis for the world’s great museums. Greeland has sought to create his own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capture & collect that which would evoke memories of the wonder and awe of the Victorian Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosity. “Fragments from the Garden” has been assembled for display in the spirit of those great collectors of exotic specimens and wondrous renderings. You are invited to join Greeland’s expedition and explore the garden, the garden home and temple. In the spirit of exploration navigate with care; observe with a keen eye and a curious mind, but please do not touch.

*German – Wunderkammer “wonder-room” or Kunstkammer “art-room”

Silent Observers

Silent Observers, this item was discovered in one of the garden homes, near the Puer Garden temple.

Photographed in the gallery during the day.  Cast brass, cornmeal and a turned acacia wood bowl.

This is one of my favorite sculptures to produce, each time they are slightly different with their own unique twist. The animal heads are created from carving the original head from wax and then cast in brass (lost wax method)…gallery goers have questioned whether they are squirrels, rodents or turtle heads…but they are just what they are “animal heads.” I enjoy the fact that the heads look neither alive nor dead but just frozen in time – my silent observers. To make their plight more beautiful they rest securely in a bowl of sacred cornmeal.

Photographed at night in the gallery with just the gallery spot lights on makes the work much more dramatic looking adding to the stoic somber mood of the observers.

 

 

Reliquary Box – The Hands of Kearin Ki & The Chalcis of Obedience

Two sculptures that were included in the Fragments from the Garden show. The hands were created by making silicone molds of my hands and the casting them with pewter, which melts at a relatively low temperature and one that the silicone molds can handle yielding some amazing detail. The character Kearin Ki was one of the founders of the garden complex and responsible for portion of the construction of the Puer Garden Temple.

The Chalcis of Obedience was one of those beautiful accidental finds at a junk shop, when I saw it I immediately knew it should be included next to the reliquary box.

Reliquary Box – The Hands of Kearin Ki. Cast pewter, found box relined with fabric, and tassels.

Detail of the pewter hands.

The Chalcis of Obedience. Found object, Crocheted and hand dyed doyley.

The Keeping Prayer Wall

The Keeping Prayer Wall was designed as an interactive sculptural installation project. There are two large prints on either side of a table, the prints measure about 24 x 32 inches. They were created by progressively staining the paper with various types of tea and yerba mate…yellow tones from Chamomile, various green tones from green tea and fresh yerba mate, and dark tones from black tea and roasted yerba mate, etc.

Lochlan Ki, “We tell stories built from fragments of our lives, maps to guide us to each other.”

Lorcan Ki,  “Dreams are the only afterlife we know, the place where the children we were rock in the arms of the children we have become.”

In front of the table and both prints hangs sheer fabric that has also been stained with tea. The panels to the right and left have writing on them and they hang about 8 inches in front of the prints (the philosophers Lochlan Ki and Lorcan Ki), who are the savvy wordsmiths of the garden.

Participants are invited to write their own words of wisdom, prayers, concerns, and worries on the paper provided and then nail it to the wall. The smaller images measure 5 x 7 inches and were created in a similar fashion to the larger images of Lochlan Ki and Lorcan Ki. Color copies were then produced from the small originals so the participants could choose from three different images to write on.

A few examples of what some of the participants wrote.

A quick 1, 2, 3 on how the prints were made with tea bags.

Fragments from the Garden – Every garden needs a “Great Tree.”

Seedpods from “The Great Tree.” Cast plaster and Hydrocal, acrylic paint. The Great Tree, which yields low hanging fruit, is located near the Garden Temple of Albus Fortuna Major in the west section of the garden, as the fruit dries and shrinks in it takes on the shape of these seed pods; they drop to the ground in there rigid form and sprout new growth.

 

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland

March 15 – April 14, 2013

What sorts of objects would one find in the Garden of Paradise if it were to be discovered? In this new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects and historical relics have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first and mixes those elements together.

Inspired by the scientists & naturalists of the Enlightenment and the art patrons whose collections formed the basis for the world’s great museums. Greeland has sought to create his own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capture & collect that which would evoke memories of the wonder and awe of the Victorian Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosity. “Fragments from the Garden” has been assembled for display in the spirit of those great collectors of exotic specimens and wondrous renderings. You are invited to join Greeland’s expedition and explore the garden, the garden home and temple. In the spirit of exploration navigate with care; observe with a keen eye and a curious mind, but please do not touch.

*German – Wunderkammer “wonder-room” or Kunstkammer “art-room”

 

Soil Samples & Bacterium Samples from Fragments from the Garden

 

Soil Samples

Soil samples collected from all 4 directional sections of the garden for later sampling and testing. The wooden box is a found object, lined with new fabric, it holds 16 brown glass bottles filled with soil. The idea being if you are exploring a garden area, you may want to research what makes it unique, starting with the soil. The fake garden was divided into 16 sections and the bottles labeled accordingly.

Bacterium Samples, Consists of two pedestals with light boxes, each housing 14 petri dishes with fake agar and bacteria, one is colored more orange the other more peach with slightly different shaped bacteria in each set. There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil – any of a domain (Bacteria) of prokaryotic round, spiral, or rod-shaped single celled microorganisms.

The petri dishes are actually filled with gel waxes with various types of pigment and placing different types of vitamins in the wax as it cools and then removing them – creating the round and rod-shaped images seen in the dishes.

Fragments from the Garden

What sorts of objects would one find in the Garden of Paradise if it were to be discovered? In this new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects and historical relics have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first and mixes those elements together.

Inspired by the scientists & naturalists of the Enlightenment and the art patrons whose collections formed the basis for the world’s great museums. Greeland has sought to create his own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capture & collect that which would evoke memories of the wonder and awe of the Victorian Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosity. “Fragments from the Garden” has been assembled for display in the spirit of those great collectors of exotic specimens and wondrous renderings. You are invited to join Greeland’s expedition and explore the garden, the garden home and temple. In the spirit of exploration navigate with care; observe with a keen eye and a curious mind, but please do not touch.

*German – Wunderkammer “wonder-room” or Kunstkammer “art-room”

 

 

 

The Divine Ephebe – Eight Disciples of Antinous

The Divine Ephebe – Eight Disciples of Antinous, discovered in the Puer Garden Temple, Fragments from the Garden.

One of the sculptures created for the installation Fragments from the Garden, which consists of 8 acrylic encaustic panels and 8 shelves that each have a unique hand-dyed crocheted doily, and 8 stained waxed teacups and saucers. Each shelf also has 8 handmade malas for morning meditation; each set of prayer beads is made from various types of glass and Swarovski crystal beads.

Two long view in the gallery of all 8 panels together.

Two detail views of the tea cups and prayer beads.

 

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation

March 15 – April 14, 2013

What sorts of objects would one find in the Garden of Paradise if it were to be discovered? In this new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects and historical relics have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first and mixes those elements together.

Inspired by the scientists & naturalists of the Enlightenment and the art patrons whose collections formed the basis for the world’s great museums. Greeland has sought to create his own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capture & collect that which would evoke memories of the wonder and awe of the Victorian Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosity. “Fragments from the Garden” has been assembled for display in the spirit of those great collectors of exotic specimens and wondrous renderings. You are invited to join Greeland’s expedition and explore the garden, the garden home and temple. In the spirit of exploration navigate with care; observe with a keen eye and a curious mind, but please do not touch.

*German – Wunderkammer “wonder-room” or Kunstkammer “art-room”

 

Young Antinous – Fragments from the Garden

One of the many new sculptures for the Fragments from the Garden show at SDAD.

Cast plaster/Hydrocal and glass beads.

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland

March 15 – April 14, 2013

What sorts of objects would one find in the Garden of Paradise if it were to be discovered? In this new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects and historical relics have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first and mixes those elements together.

Inspired by the scientists & naturalists of the Enlightenment and the art patrons whose collections formed the basis for the world’s great museums. Greeland has sought to create his own “Natural History Museum” of sorts, seeking to investigate, explore, record, capture & collect that which would evoke memories of the wonder and awe of the Victorian Wunderkammer or Cabinets of Curiosity. “Fragments from the Garden” has been assembled for display in the spirit of those great collectors of exotic specimens and wondrous renderings. You are invited to join Greeland’s expedition and explore the garden, the garden home and temple. In the spirit of exploration navigate with care; observe with a keen eye and a curious mind, but please do not touch.

*German – Wunderkammer “wonder-room” or Kunstkammer “art-room”

 

 

Performance Artwork “Places for the Soul: The Plains of Tession” from March 15th, 2013.

This performance artwork was designed for The Fragments from the Garden show at SDAD.  The work in titled Places for Souls: The Plains of Tession. The “stage” area is a large box about 14 ½ feet long, 36 inches wide and about 18 high, there is another pedestal box placed in the front of that, it measures 36 x 36 inches square and 15 inches high.

On either side there are two old wooden doors erected, two wooden chairs and two enamel basins; piled in the center is a collection of shoes, about 30 pair or so. The entire stage area faces the street placed in front of the large plate-glass windows. I’ll be posting a video shortly of the performance but included here a few stills from the opening. There will be another performance at the closing reception on April 13th.

Places for the Soul: The Plains of Tession. Performance art piece created by Kevin Greeland, performed by Wallpaper Performance Company, dance performers Dina Apple and Jennifer Oliver, arranged by choreographer Alicia Peterson-Baskel and sound environment by generative sound designer Blair Robert Nelson. The work functions as a “séance” of sorts, in which dance performers act as mediums to engage the spirits from “The Plains of Tession” a pseudo-space within the garden, adding a little twist of Dada to the performance.

The premise of the work is …

In searching for souls there is a folklore tradition of sorts that has a living person seated on a kitchen chair (the kitchen is seen as the heart of the body of a home) placing their feet in the shoes of a deceased person and then stepping (submerging) their feet into a pale/wash basin of water allowing the living to crossover and commune with the departed soul. The water should be spring water or hand drawn from a well and grounds the person so they may return back to the earthly realm. I push this one step further in that the blended séance is not just a crossover to engage the souls of the deceased but the soul of the actual home, with the identity of the house and with it’s previous ancestral structures.

House becomes enclosed and humanized space—a place within this space becomes “Home.” As human beings we require both space and place, both house and home yet little attention is sometimes given to the greater understanding of what this means and how they differ to us all as individuals and to generations, seemly our own lack of interests can facilitate the loose of homes for many by greed and ignorance. Home is a place, it is a pause in movement, a pause at a locality that satisfies some human need to become a center of felt value, home is where we can rest in our strength and dwell within; home implies permanence—this thing home as an object endures and seems dependable in ways that we with our biological weakness and shifting moods are not—home is the enduring if not illusionary history rewritten in the memory of who we are.

Wallpaper Performance Company, dance performers Dina Apple and Jennifer Oliver.

Wallpaper Performance Company, generative sound designer Blair Robert Nelson.

The choreographer from Wallpaper Performance Company Alicia Peterson-Baskel and Blair.

Me looking a little crazy with my crooked bow-tie with sound artist Blair Robert Nelson.

One Last Dance

One last dance performance practice before the big day, the opening is this Friday!

Performance art piece, Places for the Soul: The Plains of Tession, created by Kevin Greeland, performed by Wallpaper Performance Company, dance performers Dina Apple and Jennifer Oliver, arranged by choreographer Alicia Peterson Baskel and sound environment created by generative sound designer Blair Robert Nelson. The work functions as a “séance” of sorts, in which dance performers act as mediums to engage the spirits from “The Plains of Tession” a pseudo-space within the garden, adding a good twist of Dada to the evening.

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland

March 15 – April 14, 2013

San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray Street (North Park), San Diego, CA 92104

Opening Reception, Wine & Cheese — Friday, March 15th from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Tea Bag Beard Portraits

The tea bag beard portraits of my philosophers are almost done and ready for the show. They are about 24 x 32 on heavy paper.

See my previous post “Sneak Peak”

And for some bearded inspiration

 

Fragments from the Garden

What sorts of objects would one find in the garden of paradise if it were to be discovered? In his new exhibition artist Kevin Greeland creates a mythological place where such archeological objects have been discovered, but with a twist. Greeland picks and chooses from a number of different primordial first gardens and mixes those elements up.

Fragments from the Garden is a sculptural installation accompanied by performance art. Sculptures and prints are presented as archeological fragments and historical objects from this uncertain place in time, these things appear as items rescued from the lost garden or possibly from a garden home or temple.

Based on research of various elements within certain cultural myths and folklore, Greeland reimagines the tales and turns those elements into physical things i.e.…sculptures, drawings and prints.

The performance piece titled “Places for Souls” and sound art will take place during the evening around 7 pm both for the opening and closing. The performance imagined by Greeland and performed by Wallpaper Performance Company functions as a “séance” of sorts, in which performers act as mediums to engage the spirits from “The Plains of Tession” a pseudo-space within the garden, adding a good twist of Dada to the evening.

Another preview of a few pieces for the art show at SDAD

And a quick sneak preview of my seed pods from “The Great Tree” aka Tree of Knowledge…placed on the lawn they look a little like mutant Easter eggs. They are cast inside condoms using a mixture of plaster and Hydrocal with a paint and patina surface.

An experiment creating bearded men from tea bags, the prints are roughly 24 x 30. We’ll see how this turns out…they lost their appeal to a more realistic look of ancient philosophers and seem a little more hipster beardy dudes so not sure how this will work with the rest of the show?

Fragments from the Garden

A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland

March 15 – April 14, 2013

San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray Street (North Park), San Diego, CA 92104

Opening Reception, Wine & Cheese — Friday, March 15th from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Closing Reception (Ray at Night) — April 13th from 6 pm – 10 pm.

Sneak Peek from the rehearsal for the performance art piece at SDAD

A few photos from the first rehearsal with Wallpaper Performance Company for the performance piece for “Fragments from the Garden”

The premise of the piece …

in searching for souls there is a folklore tradition of sorts that has a living person seated on a kitchen chair (the kitchen is seen as the heart of the body of a home) placing their feet in the shoes of a deceased person and then stepping (submerging) their feet into a pale/washbasin of water allowing the living to crossover and commune with the departed soul. The water should be spring water or hand drawn from a well and grounds the person so they may return back to the earthly realm. I push this one step further in that the blended séance is not just a crossover to engage the souls of the deceased but the soul of the actual home, with the identity of the house and with it’s previous ancestral structures.

House becomes enclosed and humanized space—a place within this space becomes “Home.” As human beings we require both space and place, both house and home yet little attention is sometimes given to the greater understanding of what this means and how they differ to us all as individuals and to generations, seemly our own lack of interests can facilitates the lose of homes for many by greed and ignorance. Home is a place, it is a pause in movement, a pause at a locality that satisfies some human need to become a center of felt value, home is where we can rest in our strength and dwell within; home implies permanence—this thing home as an object endures and seems dependable in ways that we with our biological weakness and shifting moods are not—home is the enduring if not illusionary history rewritten in the memory of who we are.

I’ll be posting video and more rehearsal photos soon…..the show opens March 15th

Fragments from the Garden

pictured 1 of 8: The Divine Ephebe – Eight Disciples of Antinous
Colored pencil, chalk pastel and acrylic encaustic on wood panels.

Fragments from the Garden

 A Sculptural Installation by Kevin Greeland

March 15 – April 14, 2013

 San Diego Art Department

3830 Ray Street (North Park), San Diego, CA 92104

 Opening Reception, Wine & Cheese — Friday, March 15th from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Closing Reception (Ray at Night) — April 13th from 6 pm – 10 pm.

Up-coming show at SDAD

Three little watercolor studies for larger pieces to be used in an up coming show—they are painted with a stain of yerba matte tea. I’ll be posting information about the show shortly.

Lesson Learned

Wired how the connections come and go in the cosmos…. someone just sent an email-he randomly saw my blog post about my bookmaking class and recognized the penguin dudes…and it turned out he bought my silkscreen print sometime back at a charity event (I donated one, the edition size was just 12). The silkscreen used the same birdcage and penguin dudes in it that I used in my recent book…. wired small world. The print is sold out. It’s a 10-color screen print that measures 12 x 14 inches completed in 2007. Thanks Matt you have good taste now just fly out to SoCal and take my bookmaking class 😉

 

The Lesson learned here is make more art and blog about it!

 

Caged, 12 x 14 inch serigraph (silkscreen), edition of 12, 2007.

And here is another print from 2007 also sold out; it was limited to an edition of 5. It has a similar style, birdcage but with a few new characters. Titled The Judgement of Brian Maxwell Butler.

The Judgement of Brian Maxwell Butler. 11 x 17 inches, edition of 5, 2007.

 

Bookmaking Class

A quick share so you can start planning, my next Bookmaking Workshop will be Sunday, April 21st from 10:30 am to 2:30pm at San Diego Art Department—4 hours of brilliant fun learning to make books for just $65. Contact SDAD (619-299-4278) to sign up or me (via my website or here) if you have question.

Below are a few photos of my penguin/bird dude books with the house poem. Also you can keep up with all my class and workshop offerings under the classes tab.

Bookcover

These two books have hard covers with an accordion style spine and the pages are also a variation on the accordion style that are sewn to the spine. The hard cover is a combination of artwork and book cloth glued over bookboard. The pages are a Somerset paper with various techniques from watercolor, pen&ink, and collage; the pages also have various cutouts and additional bi and tri folds.