Juneish
Second Saturday is here. This month visit Blue Moon Gallery (see details in column at left).
I finished the series of paintings on my impressions of our economic plight. Everyone’s been impacted one way or the other, some more than most. The five paintings in this series depict Sacramento’s tent city, which despite news articles to contrary, still exists, albeit in another location. One painting is called “Foreclosure”. If you haven’t lost a neighbor to foreclosure, you’re lucky. Just here in our neck of the woods (Folsom), we’ve seen several nearby neighbors lose their homes. The fifth painting came from a scene in downtown Sacramento. I was out walking at lunch one day when a guy who looked pretty much like me (OK, maybe a tad younger) crossed the street in front of me carrying all of his belongings … everything on his back or under his arms. He had a pretty nice shirt on too. He looked like he was headed for his first night in the homeless shelter.
The five paintings are moving in to the Borders Book Store in Folsom. Go see them. Buy a book! My web site has taken on a distinctively new look. Lindsay continues to be a whiz. I regularly post my paintings on Facebook. Some are still in progress, but you can always see what I’m up to.
My next “political project” as Owen calls them, will be on the plight of our oceans…something entirely different for me. I’ll be posting previews on Facebook.
