
Jun 19, 20202 min read
Covid Art 40: Remembrance with love, little girl with bow in hair
Today is the 95th day since I started Shelter In Place in Pleasant Hill, California. So far, nobody in my family or inner circle has died...
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Jun 18, 20201 min read
Covid Art 38: Lafare Hills and Fortress
I drew both a fortress with bushes using watercolor, and a hill in back of my home on separate days in 2012. Here I have collaged them...
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Jun 18, 20201 min read
Covid Art 39: Munich print and more
Ludwig Lange (1808 – 1868) did drawings of several cities in Germany. This view of Munich was published in 1837. My parents hung this...
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Jun 16, 20201 min read
Covid Art 37: Hikers and Songbook Page 93
Ahh the Swiss, wholesome fun every weekend. Here, another page from my friend Heidi’s 1930s songbook together with a photo of her and her...
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Jun 15, 20201 min read
Covid Art 36: Long gone lives…
Here I have paired my collection of sympathy cards from long ago that accompanied delivered flower arrangements with my theme of...
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Jun 14, 20201 min read
Covid Art 35: Ruin on Hill
This small little work is a combination of a copper plate print together with an antique photo of a ruin on a hill, probably in southern...
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Jun 13, 20201 min read
Covid Art 34: A Gentleman and a Water fountain
In 1989 I painted this watercolor from an original by Granet. I matched it with this photo of an elegant young man with cigarette in one...
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Jun 12, 20201 min read
Covid Art 33: Home-spun lives….
I collect antique written letters. Even more than stories by gifted authors, they allow me to peer into private lives. Here is one...
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Jun 10, 20201 min read
Covid Art 32: Experiment with found objects
This is a four plate print using different 6″ wafers on a 6″ copper plate. The cranberry scratchings are on the pink tinted copper plate...
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Jun 9, 20201 min read
Covid Art 30: Chrysanthemum on Wafer
This is one of the earliest monotype prints I made with experimental silicon wafers, around 1994. Barely visible, because this 12.5-inch...
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Jun 9, 20201 min read
Covid Art 31: India Gate 2
This is the second of three in situ water colors that I made while on a trip to India. It was a very humble little watercolor and didn’t...
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Jun 8, 20201 min read
Covid Art 29: 1889 Woodard, Clark Drugstore
This baby from the family albums of Heidi’s ancestors, sits contentedly for his professional photograph on a sheepskin rug, probably...
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Jun 6, 20201 min read
Covid Art 28: Fathers and Daughters
I love this photo. I’ve stared at it for years. It says something very particular about the culture of Switzerland that on a Saturday or...
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Jun 6, 20201 min read
Covid Art 27: Letter to Heidi
My dear friend Heidi is seated third from the right in a pleated skirt. She was perhaps 12 or 14 years old in this school picture. I...
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Jun 5, 20201 min read
Covid Art 26: Pear, Avocado, and Lemon on silicon wafer
In this image, I have collaged a silicon wafer slice (1/3 of the entire print) together with the purchases at my local market in...
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Jun 5, 20201 min read
Covid Art 25: Buddha in Never-never land
I lived in Hong Kong for eight years and did business around the S. E. Asia region. On one visit to Thailand, I purchased a standing...
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Jun 3, 20201 min read
Covid Art 23: An old map of Paris
This is an old map of Paris from a high school textbook. I appended it to one of my mixed media on paper drawings using charcoal,...
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Jun 3, 20201 min read
Covid Art 24: Entrance of the Mist Maidens
A score from around 1900 and a photo of a girls’ school string orchestra of the same period. I found this in an old school yearbook....
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Jun 2, 20201 min read
Covid art 22: Embroidery and Electronics
When I was 16, 50 years ago, I spent the summer in Winterthur, Switzerland. At that time, I wanted to be a very distinguished...
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May 31, 20201 min read
Covid Art 21: Winter Frost
The tree images were shot in France in the late 1940 and the young boy in a winter landscape with similar iced branches was shot in...
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