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Sister Colleen in her "Gaugin Room", Katonah, NY 2007
I took this of my sister Colleen a while ago and really love how it captures the truly radiant being she is. In July 2007 she gave me an amazing wedding party with just the family there and it really felt like I was dreaming all day, that’s how beautiful it was. She has this amazing dining room painted in a Gauguin style depicting birds and greenery and when I first laid eyes on it I nearly dropped right there being the biggest fan of Gauguin.
This shot was taken that glorious day with her pet birds in the room singing away. Because she is the biggest animal lover and rescuer of them you’ll ever know, I loved that she has all the birds around her and how with the black and white she appears unified with her surroundings.
She even made sure I had a Gauguin style wedding cake!
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After I finished the last Iggy book by Paul Trynka I decided to finally finish up this painting
lying around of him and Debbie Harry hanging out in the dressing room backstage.
It was 1977 and Blondie was on tour with Iggy in Toronto.
Bob Gruen took the original photograph which I painted from.
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This is one of the paintings I just entered in “The Power of Self” (vote here) being held by Artist Wanted
A competition about the potential of self-portraiture.
From Salvador Dali to Cindy Sherman the self has been the subject of all the art world’s greats. The self-portrait transcends medium, style and period, existing in the vast space between the personal and prophetic. I just found out about this today and I believe tomorrow’s the last day so if your fast and want to enter go to Artist Wanted. The artists are being rated by their friends and then also judged by an amazing panel. There’s amazing winnings to be had whomever the lucky one is!
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Have ya been reading those books that kick…….Lately? Well, I now gotta share some of those that I’ve read because each one of these gave me that jolt I longed for, that oh so what are you waiting for jolt if you know what I mean, and what else but the real thing can give us that, yes we’re talking biography’s, well most of them are anyways- Here below are a few favs from 2009 I highly recommend.
Iggy Pop,Tracy Emin, Patty Smith, Henry Miller, Paul Bowles, Larry Rivers and more……….All of them truly inspired,stimulated and awakened different parts of me-
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka
Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller (find myself rereading this about every two years for some reason)
“Dalí and I: Exposing the Dark Circus of the International Art Market” by Robert Colvile (Link coming)
Three Cups of Tea by by Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin
Patti Smith Complete 1975-2006
What Did I Do, by Larry Rivers
Some Memories of Drawings by Georgia O’keefe
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri (Another one I’m constantly rereading and always keep close by)
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HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!! TO EVERYONE!! HAIL! TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS JOURNEY SO MAGICAL. HAIL! TO THE VISIONS OF ALL THE SOULS WE BEHOLD. HAIL TO ART! hAIL TO ALL THE RADIANT INSTRUMENTS PIGMENTS RACE THROUGH AND THE BODY WHICH SEEKS TO UNVEIL ITSELF THROUGH THOSE INSTRUMENTS. oK i COULD GO ON but…UHM, I got some celebrating to do!!!
SKETCH BOOK PAGE
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