Public Art

So, three years ago I had an idea.  Why does everything in my neighborhood have to be a mural?  So I suggested a Rotating Gallery.  We'd get some plywood and people could do a painting and three months later it would be replaced. Everybody gets a turn. No having to stare at the same old thing for 20 years. Well, the city got hold of it ( I could go on a very long and cranky rant about this) and now there's all this procedure attached.  So here are my three ideas I am submitting. 

Scooter Girls

I've always wanted to do an "Al Parker" type illustration.  Today I grabbed an old very rough piece of plywood and set about doing a new piece.  See, my job at the Golden Gate Bridge ends in a week and I guess that feeling of freedom (no more graveyard shift) and impending doom got the juices flowing again.  This took about 2 hours.  I'll do some more work on it later but, for now I'm happy with the results.

Education

So I am putting my art to hopefully some good use.  These drawings are for a comic / coloring book I am doing for the California Land Surveyors Association.  It will be distributed to elementary school children when surveyors come to visit and demonstrate just what it is we do.   I figured it would be a great way to introduce kids to the practical side of mathematics.  I know that when I was in high school algebra and trigonometry were too abstract a concept for me, though geometry was a breeze.  I hope to be able to show how it all applies in the real world.  Only 16 more pages to go!  Larger images can be seen on my flickr page. 

Here's a stop motion animation title sequence I did for a friend's movie.  I wanted to go for one of those late Sixties Saul Bass wannabe late night religious/morality show titles that I saw as a kid.  I used conte crayon and black construction paper.

Here's my latest Painting

This is my latest painting.  It, like many others was donated to my children's school for auction.  Took quite a awhile to do this, what with being sick for several months in the middle, but it is done and gone. 

Back to the drawing board...

Here's the first poorly typeset version of an idea for the Shadow Lakes upcoming cd "RESONANCE".   I eventually want to get the image to look more like an illustration for a children's book.  So the type will change and the image will probably be shrunk considerably before I'm done.  But, hey,  at least I get to learn how to use indesign again!

Attemption

Attemption
^ click here for the link
Hello, culture lovers. Here's a gallery show I'll be hanging in. It's a groovy new gallery here in the city that's attached to a techno nightclub.  The link above has all the info. Next Friday Oct 9, from 7pm on....

And here's one of the pieces I'll be showing...