Life Drawing

So at the start of this year, I decided to find a local life drawing group. I did find a couple of them but they were in the mornings. I have a day job, so it would not be possible to attend the weekday one, the other is on Saturdays, which is often busy. So… I...

Christina’s World

So, I took some friends out to the beach because they wanted to learn to paint. El Matador beach seemed like a likely choice because I love the rock structures thee and it is very interesting. Christina is from Dallas and she “says” that she has never...

Art is a Rorschach test

By Kathrin Raab-Questenberg Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Re: your June 14 article, “Nude art up, down, back up on a T.O. public wall: Officials deal with complaint plus the issue of censorship”: I am responding to comments concerning some pieces of art in the...

Upcoming Events

Current & upcoming shows: California Landscapes High Studio Gallery, May 10 through July 25th, 2008. Reception with the artists on May 10th, 6-8 pm. Check website for directions … http://www.highstudio.net Although it is mainly a figurative painting (33...

Passages

In some ways, my recent trip to Assisi was a passage into a new realm… a new reality for me. A realm that allowed me to be far away from all of the things that collect my attention. Passages are like thresholds in that it is what you pass over or go through to...

Planting Seeds

From the time she was born — and throughout her century long life — Lucy Brimer knew quite a bit about planting seeds. Her parents immigrated from Germany at the very end of the 1800’s to Chicago where their first two children were born. From there they moved to...