December 18th, 2018
cmsa; love this urban plein aire i've been noticing lately. Lovely Sarah C. Arnold!
December 17th, 2018
cmsa, division of lost angels; Today's post inspired by one from Willits Center for the Arts (fast becoming a beacon for the community and representing the best of willits!!!). It was about how artists should not expect a living from their work ; true that! (for 99% of us), but i object too;
artists like a roof over their heads, food in the belly, and reasonable healthcare, just like everyone else, (especially old artists!!)...if you have to work a day job you usually dont' have the energy for the 50+ hours most spend in the studio each week as well...there's the rub; yes, it's a vocation instead of a career, but that doesn't mean we can live on air! i recall what someone from the willits center for the arts told me recently; " that the art center is for the community , not the artists", and i was very disappointed to hear that, If the art centers won't support us, who will?
photo courtesy Jen Moore
December 16th, 2018
cmsa, division of lost angels; All my life up until a few years ago, christmas was a family experience, so at first it was hard to wrap my mind around the idea of christmas for one, but i'm getting into it this year, and it's a great opportunity to practice the "self-love" i've been hearing so much about lately... only tricky part was rediscovering the lumpy ceramics and handmade ornaments with handprints my boys brought home over the course of their childhood...they'll always make the mama in me cry.
December 15th, 2018
cmsa, division of lost angels; here's the honeymooners in their new home with collector/artist Maurice Masequesmay and fur baby, dexter...Maurice covers all the art bases as collector, artist himself, and patron of artists(me!). Maurice, thank you for your support!!!
December 9th, 2018
cmsa; Laying in opaque, wet into wet "brushy" light areas over glazes feels like sculpting on an armature. I love the sense of volume it gives ....WIP; "jungle Boy"
December 7th, 2018
cmsa; so happy to be back with my peops at the willits center for the arts, there sat 10 to 7 and sun til 4pm. come on by...love c
December 7th, 2018
cmsa; Willitians one and all; over at the park, preparing for the willits center for the arts fair; starts today til 9, sat noon to 5, sun noon to 5... "SEE" you there?? haha, see what i did there????
December 6th, 2018
cmsa; this photo is for the people of los angeles on this rare, rainy day; cuz they really miss the sun the two days of the year it doesn't shine!!!!just another day in paradise
December 6th, 2018
cmsa; i "a-door" this door Chuck Connelly!
December 3rd, 2018 →
CMSA; FOR ALL PAINTERS; LEST WE FORGET
December 2nd, 2018 →
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December 2nd, 2018
cmsa; Thanks Kevin Flint for turning me on to this artist (robo lights guy in palm springs) He reminds me of a criticism of myself from many years ago " the artist seems conflicted between dreams and nightmares"( Ruth Weisburg) for artweek). Anyway you'll never see xmas the same!
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haven't driven east to palm springs in many moons, happy to see the dinos seem well cared for, but sad that iconic diner's gone, remember it sold tacky lacquered redwood slabs?
Photo #2
Robo lights sculptures reminded me alot of Bruegel, this one blew me away and gave me the creeps .
Photo #3
Ditto this one (gave me the creeps) . I'm sure it will inspire a painting called "brave new world"
Photo #4
i thought i had seen every "alt. medium" known to man in the art of the last generation (Tar, tooth picks , hair, plastic trash of all kinds, broken cds, dental floss etc.) But this was a first for me; i keep thinking how satisfying it must have been to pour resin and fruit loops (most iconic of american cereals) into a hollow duck
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#5 My current favorite wingwoman at our motel (off season rates so amazing, luxury room for two, $100 in palm springs!!); the devine Jacquelyne May, thanks buddy!
if i've piqued your interest it's too late, as always seems the case for living artists; this one misunderstood, maligned and closed down permanently now by the residents of the mega posh neighborhood he built this in.
Dear crazy palm springs robo lights guy, DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN!, best wishes and love from your fan, cynda mary
November 22nd, 2018 →
cmsa; another kitchen table artist and why it's important to parent AND keep painting
November 21st, 2018
cmsa; here i go again, sometimes i'm not sure why, but these images clamoring to be painted, most of them bouncing around for atleast a year before they erupt into being, but erupt they must (or i will!)..This one will be a portrait of a friend and his pets. This detail wip is an underpainting of the dog bowie; Super White on preliminary glaze layers, fastmatte and oil on linen. c valle
November 21st, 2018
cmsa; yay!, won a prize at the trac 19 competition;
for this one; "Earth Fire and Water";
From all of us working on The Representation Art Conference, we would like to offer our congratulations on winning Second Place (the Alizarin Award) in the September round of the TRAC2019 Online Art Competition. now i need to borrow it back from the owner ...
November 19th, 2018
cmsa; background from the pioneer village, bakersfield ca
November 17th, 2018
cmsa; underpainting
November 16th, 2018
cmsa; such a perfectly beautiful thing...somewhere in rome (i think) thanks Bruce Dean
November 11th, 2018
cmsa; sticking a fork in it; "Beware the Crone's Embrace" C Valle oil on linen, 50x40 inches...inspired by a video i watched sometime in the last couple years; It showed a local tradition in an english village called a " granny race". Where the 4 oldest ladies jump on the backs of the 4 youngest, strongest men, and they race through the village.
The title inspired by what it was like when me and my friend micheal assumed the position; He has to bend almost double to manage my greater weight. He is practically strangled to death with all my weight pulling just at his throat. He is completely at the mercy of "the crone" ; i thought it was great ; older women (in our culture) are thought to be the least dominate of people, in this position (at least) they hold ALL the power. ps. the young mans ear is just in the right position for the crone to give encouragement and shriek criticism, and she holds a riding crop under her elbow, in case he needs a swat on the bum to encourage him..
