RoboGuy

That Was Fast!

Hardly anytime at all!

Irony Alert!

It seems a bit odd that a movie whose story line both condemns corporate greed and extols the vitues of rain-forest inhabitants would be doing a product tie-in with McDonalds.

Or maybe its just me?

Winter Solstice

Chinese Ripples

Discontinuities

Ken Nack, 1923- 2009

With Fernand Leger, Paris, 1950


With Brad at Sea Ranch, 2009

Everywhere is Calm

Hong Kong is present, Taipei wakes up, talk of circadian rhythm..

Exit Strategy

Not necessarily political- just a semi-funny idea (parachute, submarine), though I'm not sure how it reads...

Toby is 7 Today!

Rattlesnake Trail, August, 2009

Double Yellow

New Yorker Rejects

Couloir

One of a series of paintings inspired by old LIFE and National Geographic magazines. The source image for this was actually cobbled together in photoshop from 2 or 3 images of a famous, early 60's American Mt. Everest expedition.

Besides the illusion of gravity and of deep space rushing down the couloir and back (and seemingly tilting up) to the distant glacier, I was intrigued by the state-of-the-art high tech equipment of the day: leather, wool, and nylon. The climbers probably smoked, too, in their tents and warming huts.

oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

KB

Charcoal pencil on vellum

Richard Diebenkorn

had quite a way with paint.

Mustard Means Big

Something's brewing out there!

Rockets!

Last night I was reading a spy novel set in 1958, around the time of the sputnik era, and there was a description of the Jupiter rocket that would launch the US's first satellite, and it mentioned that there were the letters "UE" on the side...

I have a painting that I did when I was 8, and it was exactly that rocket.

I happened to be looking at the painting, recently, and wondering why I put those letters, rather than "US" or something. I found the image that I painted it from (must've been in LIFE or Nat. Geo., originally), online. Apparently I was a very diligent copier.

Just now, looking at the original photo and the painting, together, I remembered being 8 years old, with brushes and gouache, in my room with the grey linoleum tile, in the house on Iliaina street, listening to "The Hurdy Gurdy Man".

Santa Ynez Valley

oil on canvas board, 8 x 10 inches

Done in 1999, on a very cold, very windy ridge off Figueroa Mtn Rd. The easel had to be weighed down with a couple of gallon jugs of water.

Farmer's Market

or should it be "Farmers' Market"?

Either way, a sketch for a painting-to-be

Ventura

Air Burst

Mugu

KB's New Board

8'2''

Shaun Tomson

displacing some water on a 6'0'' reflex

En Plein Air

Franchesci Park

Rocker

n 16-1/4''t 15-3/4''

fin box at 5'', side fins up 11'', out 6'', 1/4'' toe

5'7'' x 21''

A Page From The Notebook

Stylemaster

La Notte

Monica Vitti, painted from a still.

oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

I Was on Holiday

Jean Seberg, "Breathless"

So Old

that its almost new again

Its Gotta Be Done

It has to.

Tzia

Lovely.

Line Drawings

A couple of random sketches from a figure drawing session. Lines like that seem to come about after thinking stops.

Conté on nicely yellowed newsprint.

Space-Age

Flextail. Super Chine rail. Epoxy/carbon fiber.

But, will the masses go for it?