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  • Almost

    Three pieces are very close to being done, but making me crazy with their little tiny details that just have to be right. For example, I have probably put at least twenty…

  • God bless the carburetor

    In the early 90s I got on a Greyhound headed to Washington, D.C., from Richmond, Virginia. The last person to board the bus was a woman in her sixties, petite but formidable…

  • There there

    Have you heard that old Gertude Stein quote about Oakland? “There is no there there.” Taken out of context, her statement about being unable to return to her family home (it had…

  • The scoop

    I broke down and got some new brushes this week. In case you can’t tell, these brushes are teensy tiny and have an enlarged grip, which is great news for big-handed me.…

  • A is for boundaries

    This week I had some trouble with boundaries. I mean literal boundaries. First, we had a burglary a couple of weeks ago, which was creepy, but then we had a second one…

  • Here’s the story

    I finished the first piece from my new series this week. Some other smaller ones are either done or very close to it. It feels a bit like I just climbed over…

  • The fun ones

    These little panels are staying fun, thankfully.

  • As expected

    Over the past couple of weeks I lost some studio time to holiday and New Year activities, some planned and some not, and it reminded me that the heart of the New…

  • Not stupid

    This is one of the last pieces to get the real beginnings of its image. I got stuck thinking I had made a strange and silly painting of sea snakes. Whenever I…

  • Lots of socks and Leonardo

    It has been pretty cold for San Francisco, which means instead of working barefoot, I have been wearing three pairs of socks. Also usually something like a shirt, two sweaters, jeans, and…