Working in downtown Oklahoma City, I have been lucky to attend numerous Art Moves events in buildings around the area. The Arts Council sponsors these performances every weekday from 12-1 PM, and participants include musicians, artists, dancers, and others.
My first Art Moves demonstration is Monday, March 13 at the Oklahoma Tower (210 Park Avenue). I will be doing a demonstration of kirigami (cut-and-folded paper) and watercolor painting.
I have not been updating this site recently due to starting a new job August 2015. My work has not stopped my art work, and so I have been making both 2D and 3D art, and one of my watercolor paintings was accepted in the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition's 24 Works on Paper exhibition, which will travel throughout the state from August 2016 to January 2018. I am fortunate to be selected, and I am setting my sights on loftier goals. You can check out the exhibition at www.24works.org. The first stop is at the Guymon Public Library and Arts Center August 12 – September 26.
I am back in the US (waiting for my last flight to Oklahoma City), but I thought I would share the three significant works I made during my stay. They were all watercolors and taken from real life photographs on my travels.
I will be gone all of May to visit relatives in India. I will try to post things when I get internet access. In the meantime, here are some recent stuff.
At Martin Nature Park
Alkyd portrait of my late grandfather, which I made in 2012
I bought a travel easel but never got to use it until this past Saturday when I went to Lake Hefner (NW Oklahoma City). The weather was really nice. Not to hot. Not to cold. Goldilocks weather. I decided to do watercolors because one benefit is that they dry quickly and can always be reused. I am always a little saddened with my alkyd/acrylic paints slowly drying up on me.
Good news! I was lucky to have one of my photos on Instagram published in my local paper, The Oklahoman. Image is of the SkyDance Bridge in Downtown Oklahoma City.
I donated some bookmarks and a painting made yesterday to my childhood elementary school, Harvest Hills, in Oklahoma City. The school mascot is a red tail hawk, and the flowers are from the redbud tree, a native species.
This is a design I made for a t-shirt contest yesterday, but I'm not sure if I want to tweak more or just submit and get it over with. The original image is a woodblock print made by Mizuno Toshikata, which I've updated and added some text since I have studied kyudo. I first did a freehand pen sketch on paper, then I used Adobe Illustrator and a Wacom Tablet to copy the marks into vector brush strokes. The circle is Ensō, a Zen symbol of enlightenment. EDIT: Took off the extraneous large lines and made better leaves.
Ichi-go, Ichi-e : One Shot, One Life (digital freehand art)
