Home Again

Paintings home from abroad are welcomed with open arms and eyes. They were finished and shipped off before there was time to absorb them. It's nice to look and be reminded, feel, the path, the journey.

Los Pinos 6 12x12" ©2013

Los Pinos 1 12x12" ©2013

Worktable Wednesday

On the easel today:

Flora and Fauna

Inspiration from the mountains. Wild Santa Barbara Milk Vetch {Astragalus Trichopodus}and a most elusive/evasive coyote, Canis Latrans or otherwise known as the American Jackal, brush wolf or prairie wolf.

SB Milk Vetch 12x12" ©2013 {in process}

Canis Latrans 12x12" ©2013

Spring Plein Air

Outdoorsy, high in the pines, on the deck, mountain dwelling, painting. It doesn't stink. Another spring trying my hand at plein air painting. I like it and I don't. It's distracting and nervy, not to mention frustrating toting equipment to locations and the time setting up just to make a mark. Still, I try.

In the pines 10x12" oil on panel ©2013

Sundance Spring

paintings by yours truly

See all the paintings at Sundance HERE.

Ode

... to the long disregarded blog. Sadly, Facebook has usurped your power, made you a distant object in the rear view mirror of my to do list. You are a passing thought, a "should" and then dismissed with a sigh.

Facebook has made it so easy to share, too easy for the slovenly, with it's quick 120 character punchlines. Does anyone really regard those as ambient intimacy as we are told we should? Or are they merely easier to brush off than a lengthy blog post, or even the briefest of blog entries, that requires more clicking of keys to acquire the meat of a thought.

Like many things, dearest blog, you will morph, you will transform. Let us be mindful of the possibility that your new incarnation may be the Monarch that once was the caterpillar and not another application that lulls us into sleepy discontent as the time wiles away.

Los Pinos 12x12" oil on wood ©Nicole Strasburg

Dreaming of a white Christmas

I know two fur balls that can't wait for a snow day!

News from the front

One busy elf here, where to begin? Printing, posting, stamping, painting, travel.

New etchings will be arriving at Pierre Lafond Upstairs by the end of the week.

Sullivan Goss 100 GRAND Exhibition opens First Thursday in December.

100 GRAND, 2012 (100 WORKS OF ART FOR $1,000 OR LESS)
OPENING: 1st THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 from 5-8pm
SULLIVAN GOSS, 7 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA

RUNS:    December 6, 2012 - Feburary 3, 2013

WORKS AVAILABLE FOR PRESALE: Thursday, December 6 at 9AM

Sullivan Goss is pleased to announce the gallery’s fourth annual 100 GRAND exhibition, with 100 works of art being offered at $1,000 or less.

100 GRAND will feature work by: Benjamin Anderson, Sean Anderson, Tony Askew, Ken Bortolazzo, Phoebe Brunner, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Connie Connally, David Cooley, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Joann Dufau, Pamela Enticknap, Noah Erenberg, Martha Mayer Erlebacher, Peggy Ferris, Jon Francis, Rafael Gaete, Nancy Gifford, Robin Gowen, Amanda Grandfield, Holli Harmon, Tracey Sylvester Harris, Kristen Hawkes, Cynthia James, Scott Kahn, Masha Keating, Dan Levin, Mark Lozano, Susan McDonnell, Mehosh, David Molesky, Julie Montgomery, Jennifer Moses, Brad Nack, Ken Nack, Zoe Nathan, John Nava, Zack Paul, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Angela Perko, Chris Peters, Hank Pitcher, Ian Putnam, Paula Re, Robert Redfield, Maria Rendon, Brad Reyes, Lindsey Ross, Jourdan Ross, Blakeney Sanford, Caren Satterfield, Elena Siff, Leslie Lewis Sigler, David Skinner, Barry Spacks, Nicole Strasburg, Marlene Struss, Makeda Tekle-Smith, Jane Taylor, James David Thomas, Susan Tibbles, Dug Uyesaka, Sarah Vedder, Deborah Veldkamp, Daniel Warth, Roe Ann White, Monica Wiesblott