"Seance" on display at Blue Line Gallery, Roseville

Blue Line Gallery HOSTS 33^rd Open Show

Juror Shelly Willis, Sacramento’s Public Art Director, Comments on the Selection

ROSEVILLE, Calif., January 28, 2010—Shelly Willis, Art in Public Places Program Director for the city and county of Sacramento, has selected 62 works of art from 655 submitted from artists from across the U.S. and abroad for Roseville Arts’ 33^rd Annual Open Show. The exhibit opens February 20 with an evening reception at the Blue Line Gallery.

“It was a pleasure and honor to view the 655 submissions,” wrote Willis, who is accustomed to evaluating and selecting from sizable numbers of artwork. “The quality and range of ideas expressed in the paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed media works submitted was vast and impressive.”

The exhibit will showcase the fine artwork of forty-two artists from eight different states, in a variety of media, from oil and watercolor painting and ceramics to solar etchings and mixed media that includes crochet and button-work, copper and reeds. Visitors will be confronted with a range of thought-provoking content that may speak to their intellect, sense of humor, spirituality and emotions, as well as to their aesthetics.

Willis will also select the winners of $2000 in cash awards, including the coveted $1000 Best of Show Award, to be announced during the opening reception.

WHO: Blue Line Gallery

WHAT: Roseville Arts’ 33^rd Open Show

WHEN: February 20 – April 9, 2010; hours, Tues-Sat, 10-5

WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville

WHY: To introduce artists’ work from a broad geographic area

COST: FREE admission; artwork for sale; donations welcome

Ghost on Display

My latest work, "Ghost," will be on display at the Hallmark Inn this weekend for the annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century Conference hosted by the John Natsoulas Gallery
Galleries open Friday March 5 from 1:00-9:00pm
and Saturday March 6 from 10:00 - 5:00pm
Opening Reception 7:00 - 9:00pm

Ghost

Oil and Cut out Canvas on 27 Canvas Panels
about 12' x 4'

New Project in Progress

Oil on Cut Out Canvas and Canvas Panels

Yeti Progress

Here's a couple updates of the glazes of my latest Yeti painting, to give an understanding of the process.

Here is a layer of yellow over a dried layer of blue, making the face look pretty green. Usually when I glaze faces i start with blue, then red, then yellow. this time I did blue, yellow, then red, just to experiment.

Here, I've added brown and red to make it more human-like but it's looking a little too warm. I'll cool it off once this dries using some more blues.

Almost there.

The Yeti Weeps for the Impure

New painting!

Nevermind my finger at the bottom.

Oil on Canvas
SomethingxSomething (pretty small)

The face, I'm pretty sure, is going to be glazed to look more like a human face. You'll see.

Progress

Here's where I'm at with these two

This first one is almost done.


and this second one has a little more ways to go. But it's gettin there.