Blue Dragon River!

What happens when you say Yes to something new? Recently I found myself in a wonderful collaborative exploration that came together as “Blue Dragon River”!

I was approached by a client to remedy an unsightly paved area in front of their hilltop home. After proposing a design, I was commissioned to create a 52ft. x 70ft. pavement mural. I had the perfect work partner in my son, a meticulous, detail-oriented team player. The client is a creative thinker and his open-minded style let this unique pavement painting find its “flow”, just as a real waterway does.

We worked in early spring, dodging rainy days. The mural grew and looked different from every vantage point! Until we had the drone shot, we didn’t know the long curve going out the gate would create a dragon’s tail. We saw that we had made a blue dragon!

Wonderfully, “Blue Dragon River” reflects the sky when wet with rain, just as a real river does. The client’s Tesla thinks it’s a real river, beeping and flashing when the car crosses it. 😉

We used a great product, Behr Pavement and Concrete paint, and were rewarded with an excellent painting experience and result. We will use it again on our upcoming commission!

In today’s crazy, stressful, mixed up world, imagine starting and ending your time outside your home sanctuary with something that lights you up from the inside… an image that starts your workday on the right foot as you approach your office, store, restaurant, or day’s experience!

Imagine a design that has personal meaning for you, creating a pathway to your home or office.

This is the work that inspires me: Putting what inspires You into visual form!

Manmade Sky

There is a Japanese word, ri, which which could be translated as “the underlying principles of the cosmos”. It might be easier to understand with examples. Ri denotes an apparent pattern in what is random, like the lacey froth of a receding wave, the puzzle-like bark of a Ponderosa pine or the shape of flames. We recognize natural shapes, whether a type of plant, or a mineral or a cloud by such apparent patterns, though none are measurable, none are ever really the same.

In contrast, the manmade geometry of an urban grid would seem to be a far cry from ri, a metaphysical opposite perhaps. A skyscraper is certainly measurable, its pattern is undeniable and we needn’t look through half-closed eyes to see it.

Yet catching light and shadows as the walls of a canyon would, the colossal towers of a city draw our eyes upward rather than to the horizon, and we are able to see what is behind us and above us as the buildings disappear into a prismatic heaven. How marvelous that so much mass, instead of obstructing the sky, becomes the scaffolding for flying white canopies or darkening storms!
In this way even the strictest urban geometry bows low to nature and the rippling random patterns of ri.

Bierstadt in Belize

Bierstadt in Belize

oil on canvas, 42″ x 57″

california * Belize* Bierstadt* pinot noir * landscape art * oil on canvas * pebble beach * carmel by the sea * carmel valley * california landscape * monterey bay * santa cruz *

Showing Art in Carmel this summer!

image.jpgWine lovers! Art Lovers!
I will be showing art in Carmel this summer at the tasting room of Windy Oaks Winery, whose vineyards are on Hazel Dell in Corralitos!
Come by for their Friday cheese and wine tastings!

The tasting room is located just a block and a half north of Ocean, on the west side of Dolores, between 5th and 6th, in the Su Vecino Court.

The phone is 831.574.3135.

https://windyoaksestate.com

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