Category: art
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the reveal
Today I attended my friend’s photo exhibit opening. We are locked into a “consistently peripheral” friendship somewhere in the “three rings from center” range, and every six or seven years we find ourselves in the same city with a reason to connect. Our relationship is shallow enough to be reclaimed in a moment, but full […]
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Celebration of Fine Art
The Fellas and I hit the opening day of the Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art – a 75 day artists-in-residence program in a tent off one of the main drags in Scottsdale. It was great. The Team wasn’t that psyched for the outing, but identified that I was unmoved by their protests. I set Hunter […]
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Opus Memoriae MMXVII
2017 was a great year. I picked 12 important events and made them into the Memory Painting for 2017. The Fellas dug on watching it go from blank canvas to complete and they painted some blocks of their own on some mini-canvasses (canvassae?). As I started each block we talked about how much fun we […]
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the heist
I don’t know why, but I have some fascination with stolen art. There’s even a series on Netflix called “Raiders of the Lost Art”. I’ve seen the remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair” a half dozen times. My top 3 “stolen and never recovered”… #3: Charing Cross Bridge, London by Monet – stolen in 2012 […]
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What’s his name’s great painting…
We were doing a little home painting today, I don’t have the nerve yet to move The Fellas past the washable tempera paints, and we had a little emotion around “it just doesn’t look right” and “there’s not way to make paintings look right”. “Hold on,” I comforted. I generally don’t know the medium of […]