Tentatively, in June, the art center will once again host drawing sessions featuring a live model. It is a great way to hone your artistic skills, so if you want to come on down, to draw with various mediums, listen to some fine music, and indulge in great ambiance, please do stop by this Spring. (See my model page for more details about my professional modeling status.)  Monika Agnello is the liaison, so contact her for that. Their web site is currently under construction, but you can reach her at monika@monikaagnello.com


                                              

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Thank you for stopping by, and please do look at my other pages. Go to my Modeling Page for updated information on various locales where I will be modeling, and for a wealth of exceptional and talented artists.

This painting, and the first three below are something wholly different than my landscapes.

I painted these on old cut up doors, discarded from some house going through demolition. They were cut and piled along the curb, so I took them home and decided to use them as a canvas.

Doors have many connotations, of dreams and worlds that are both open and closed to you. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." A line from William Blake's, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', and also the title given to Aldous Huxley's visionary tome.

What gnosis is contained within these doors, what hidden history lurks in every crevice, every crack, every peel of ancient paint?

I have painted these in the impasto style, and the surface is very pronounced, undulating along the natural rhythm of the wood and design. I have left the old paint visible here and there, and so a semblance of its decades-old facade remains.