Several years ago, I tried something
new when a client commissioned me to paint a mural for her young
daughter's room. It was a large project, about 9 by 18 feet, and
it was challenging since the house was under construction and
there was no water other than what I could carry up to the second
floor in a bucket. But we agreed on a sketch of a country garden.
Here is the sketch, and here is the
finished mural.
One of my favorite San Antonio
commissions was the seven
paintings (see this example) in the Marriot
Riverwalk's Lobby Bar - they are a series of Southwestern
collages that I did for the opening of the hotel in 1987.
The
San Antonio Art
League has links to many of the arts and cultural
organizations in the city as well as information on individual
artists and exhibitions.
| I look forward to having more time to paint and
construct art pieces in my studio.
For information on any of my artwork or the San Antonio art
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FOLK ART and my home town,
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Our beautiful city is graced by
extraordinary Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Art, an exciting new wing of the San
Antonio Museum of Art. The collections
span four thousand years of Latin American history and art, and
include important gifts from the Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert
K. Winn collections of Mexican Folk Art. Its unique
architecture in a redesigned brewery by the San
Antonio River makes it a one-of-a-kind treasure.
My personal interest
in folk art began to develop seriously with one of
my favorite graphic arts projects.
Several years ago, I was asked by Corona Publishing
Company to design and illustrate a coloring book on the
folk art of Mexico. Dr. Marion Oettinger, who wrote the
book's introduction and is head curator at the Center,
allowed me to photograph pieces from the collections to
draw and include in the book. Coloring the Folk Art of
Mexico has been republished with a new cover to
coincide with the recent opening of the Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Art.
If you would like to print out and color an amusing
folk art figure from the book, click here for the
DEVIL BIKER. Coloring the Folk
Art of Mexico can be ordered on-line from
Amazon.
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We particularly like
Mexican folk art that is related to the Day
of the Dead. There is
something about the macabre humor mixed with reverence
that appeals to me. Some people have skeletons in their
closet - we have skeletons on our piano,
where our favorite pieces reside. My students like to use
these fascinating figures and images in their work - they often constructed a Day of the Dead altar
in the art and computer classroom.
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