"Showering Outdoors"

Craig and Rebecca saw "Showering Outdoors" at Open Studios, and were inspired to commission 3 paintings showing robots doing whatever robots might do in a bathroom. Hmmm, fun! I'm thinking... Any ideas?

Name the Painting Results:

Thanks everyone for your entries in the "Name the Painting" contest. Here are the entries:

Bowling Ball Lemonade Factory
Pucker Up
Lemon Abduction
Making Up
Pass the Lemon on the Left Side
When Life Gives You Lemons…
Luck-Be-a-Lemon
Lemon-Lift!
Robot + Organic Kindred Spirits Meet
The Unconscious Life of Robo Lemon
When Life Gives You Lemons, Consider the Alternative
Reunion
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Wendy Soderborg
What’s Behind the Lemon
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Inside the Lemonade Machine
When Life Gives You Lemons, Throw Some Vodka and Make a Party!
Give Me My Lemon
3 Roads to Lemon
Random Arrows?
LemonBot
C’est no pas Lemon
This isn’t Over Yet!
Lemon Joy!
Lemonade Stand
Meep Meep
Lemonectomy
Hole-y Citrus
Lemondrop
Leapin’ Lemonade
Wendy Soldeborg
“Lifegiving” Lemonade
Lemon Aide
The Citronator/Lemonator
Soilent Lemon
10 cents a Lemon
Snatch Those Lemons and Make Lemonade!
Pick Me! Pick Me”
Lemon Drop
Mello Yellow Attempts to make Lemons from Lemonaide
“Holy Lemon, Batman!”
“Holy Lemon, Batbott”
Zesty Bots
Lemon From the Mother Lime
Go Out and Play!
Friendship
Leonard and the Giant Lemon
Is that Little Italy?
The Lemon is not Sour, it is Refreshing
Give Me the Lemon!
What to do with Future Lemons!
Wrong Hole!
I Want Lemon
Lemon Drop
When Life Gives You Lemons, Build a Funky-ass Freaktastic Lemon-colored Robot
“One Lemonbot Coming Right up”

Votes have been counted, and the winning entry is "Lemon Lift!". The painting will be mailed to the winner right away.

:-) :-)

Name the Painting

I have one painting for Open Studios that does not have a name. I'm asking people to get creative, and think of a fun title. Whoever comes up with the best title will win the painting for free, and I'll mail it to them after the weekend. If you can't make it to Open Studios, but still want to participate, that's OK too. I'll post all the titles on my blog, and the final winning name.

The Sweet Spot

OK, originally this had a different title--"Perfect Fit," but got changed at the last. In the latest series of paintings on recycled wood, this one seems to hit the *sweet spot*--it is not the biggest, not the smallest, but just right. And it includes Soft Monster at the horizon! On recycled wooden drawer panels.

Daniel B-11-767

Wood for this piece was once a dresser drawer stamped with 11-767 on the back. The meaning of that is a mystery, but it seems appropriate to include it in the title. Because it uses recycled wood, I like to include images of the trees where it might have come from.

Worlds

"Soft Monster" returns.

Tree Repair

With so many paintings showing chopped down trees, the robots are doing something about it in this one. New for Open Studios at ARC gallery Oct 15-17

SOMArts

Artspan had an interactive art project where people painted tiny canvases right on the spot.



Leslie Lowinger drew the profile and headed up the project.





The result is a collage with bits and pieces from many of the artists. As the pieces neared the edge of the profile, people started painting their pieces to match the edges of the silhouette.



Jeanne Hauser & Cheryl looked on...

P A L I N (Phaze One) at Market Street Gallery

"P A L I N"
[PHAZE ONE]
National Group of Artists
at market street gallery san francisco
On exhibit from October 4 - October 29
Opening reception October 9, 2010 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Contributing artists
Peter Green, Jon-Paul Bail, Zachary Knoles, Wendy Van Fleet, Morgan, GETBIZI, Daniel Caspera, Boris Rasin, Robert Lowery, Clark Clark, Trautwein Jürgen, Diego Marcial Rios, Lisa Stegoman, Johnny Botts, Aimee Alexander, Deanna D., Patrizia Montanari, Melba Abela, Laurie M., & Norville Parchment




These three pieces are my contributions:

Perfect Fit

Today I poured a final coat of resin on new tree stump paintings, so they'll be ready for Open Studios. The resin brings out the wood grain! The look reminds me of Charles's boat interiors--high gloss shiny wood everywhere. "Perfect Fit" is th e title of the triptych showing Soft Monster with two paws on the hillside.