Adventure is Worthwhile in Itself

"Adventure is Worthwhile in Itself", said Amelia Earhart, the first woman who conquered many "firsts" in flying. This is the next page of my sketchbook: Travel With Minnie. I related with pictures, and words,  artistic highlights of the year 2011 for me, books read which impressed me, museum visits, travels, people I shared my life with. You can see the original starting tomorrow June 1st, till the 20th of June at THE POP-UP  GALLERY, Oakland, California. After that it will go to Greater Boston from July 6-8, then to Portland, Maine, July 12-14, and Toronto, Canada July 18-22. The sketchbooks are doing their World Tour before returning to the Brooklyn Art Library in Brooklyn, New York, at the end of the year.

My Best Painting

My Best Painting is the next one, said Ted De Grazia. Another page in my sketchbook: "Travel With Minnie " This sketchbook, prepared for the Brooklyn Art Libray, in Brooklyn, New York, is doing the World Tour through Chicago, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Boston, Toronto, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austin, London, Melbourne, then back to the Brooklyn Art Library, in New York, it's permanent home. It will be in Los Angeles this coming weekend, and I'll be there:  iam8bit : 2417 Sunset Boulevard (almost corner with Alvarado), 7:00-11:00pm. Come see the sketchbooks! There are hundreds of them!

Beauty Suspends the Desire to be Elsewhere

"Beauty Suspends the Desire to be Elsewhere", (Ian Roberts)second page of my sketchbook: Travel With Minnie. Written and painted in 2011, it is making the Tour of the USA and Canada during 2012, to return at the end of the year to the Brooklyn Art Library, in Brooklyn, New York, where it will become part of their permanent collection. You can see the original sketchbook, touch it and read it this weekend  at  iam8bit, 2417 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Come to the Opening Reception Party, Friday May 25th, from 7-10pm. I will be there! See you !