Glad I did not forget about Angela Hays and her opening tonight at Brooklyn Artists Gym - I’ll be there.  Actually, I have spoken to Angela a couple of times as I’ve painted and find her interesting to talk with and open to new ideas (not everyone is).

It’s possible that our conversations might have influenced some of the artistic decisions she’s made (or maybe not) - I’ll be curious to see that and write about it here.

The think with Angela, her work is different than anyone else’s at the Studio - it’s very conceptual and also, extremely ordered.

 Here’s one of Angela Hays earlier works:

This is going to be a good show - I hope people who are in the NYC area come to it - All the info is here http://brooklynartistsgym.com/events.html

Boy, is this FUN!  I did a painting in my studio yesterday - Another Studio Painting at BAG.  I was busy writing up a report for one of my clients, an Architect, whose work I’ve been promoting for the last 2 years.

Anyway, in their report I mentioned they should take their house plans and make stamps, prints, T-Shirts and Ties with it - especially to those who buy the architectual house  plans.

Anyway - I had so much fun with it - and Zazzle.com - I decided to take my own Artwork and make a tie out of it - the painting I did yesterday looks quite nice as a tie - and I did not actually have Zazzle.com make me the tie yet - but their platform allows you to see what the product is going to look like and control the layout and design.

So….here’s my first tie using Zazzle.com

Your product, My Studio, is now in the Zazzle marketplace!

Gallery product line: New Products Marketplace product line: Places, Regional > United States > New York > Brooklyn

And here’s the tie

Did not want to paint from the model today - Decided to do another studio study trying out a couple ideas from last night’s talk on Optical Art - but I didn’t explicitly try to do anything as much as think about those ideas.   After about 2 hours - decided to stop.

In fact, there’s a  get together tonight for a famous blogger that I just found out about via reading my RSS feeds on my handheld, something B.L. Ochman is throwing - decided to spend the rest of the afternoon home and go out in the evening for a little bit.   So here’s my study.

 

I’m liking mixing oil pastels with regular chalk pastels - it’s the first real experimentation I’ve allowed myself in a while and it seemed like it happened by accident last week - but maybe it was meant to be.  

A lot that seems accidental really is not - I’ve accepted that idea in my life.  Some of the best effects in paintings come about accidentally, BTW - I’ve just learnt to leave them in the painting - 10, 20 or 30 years ago … I would have wiped them out and worked over those “accidents”.