Falling Stones

Falling Stones, acrylic on paper, 24x19, available. This painting won an Honorable Mention at the San Diego Watercolor Society in 2011, and has been selected for publication in the Blaze Hill Press book: EYES ON: ABSTRACT, 2012.  Editor: Joe Guimera.

This is the following page of the sketchbook: "Travel With Minnie", you can see "Falling Stones" on top of the page, on the right hand side. After suffering several hours of pain passing a kidney stone, I was inspired to paint this picture.

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.

Impossible Things

"There is no use trying, one can't believe impossible things..." said Alice in Wonderland, page 6 of my Travel With Minnie Sketchbook 2011. It is now doing the World Tour, it just left Los Angeles, for Oakland.  You can see this one and many other sketchbooks from June 1st to the 20th at the Pop Up Library, Oakland, California. The Sketchbook Project people are extremely well organized, young, fun, responsible, friendly and helpful. You can't miss it!