50-50 Show - Recap

Here are thumbnail images of the whole display. I decided to show them in the order they were done. Hope to see you at the Preview Party, Thurs. July 29, 7-9 pm (www.brownpapertickets.com/events/116189) or at the Grand Opening, Fri. July 30, 6-10 pm.

Finished!

Finally finished all 50 pieces--a real feeling of accomplishment.

Hope this blog thing is working!

Just logging in and it appears all may not be well on this site. Hopefully I can get the problem fixed soon.

Just wanted to repeat information about how to visit the 50-50 Show in person. The fundraiser preview is Thursday, July 29, 7 to 9 pm. Tickets are available for $10.98 at BrownPaperTickets.com, 1-800-838-3006, or $20 at the door. The Friday night opening July 30, 6 to 10 pm, is free to the public. About a thousand people came to the opening last year, so if you prefer a more peaceful atmosphere, I suggest coming to the ticketed preview. Location is Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, CA 94044. Directions are on the website, www.sanchezartcenter.org/Directions.

Taking a different tack . . .

Too much of the pastel sweetness and light all at once just before this, I guess. Time to get a bit more austere.

I've also found myself using ideas from earlier quite larger works, and translating them down to this small size. Interesting exercise. (Have I just been wasting canvas all this time??) I generally paint on medium large canvases, like 24 x 30 to 36 x 36 or even larger. I wonder how this "scaling down" aspect will affect my work when I go back to bigger canvases?

What I do is make many small sketches of ideas. It's an easy thing to do anytime I'm waiting somewhere. Then I turn many of those sketches into 50-50 pieces. Not all, of course, but many of them. This means that I have to be careful to check off or "X" out the sketches I have actually used, so as not to repeat an image. So far that's only happened once, and as you can see above, I've changed the green & purple one by collaging on a small felt marker on paper drawing.

More images

50-50 Musings

It's interesting to me that as I paint these 6-inch panels, small sets start to emerge, like a two-fer, or a trio of pieces that go together. This was not planned, it just happened. I like it! Of course, sometimes this happens because I have a good color mixed up and I want to use up the paint. It's all grist for the mill here.

More 50-50 works

July 16, 2010 (still)

Maybe the images will upload this time!