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Arthur's Life Drawing Class

Arthur had his first life drawing session at his studio. Today's topic, negative space and Arthur had a very novel way of demonstrating it with a large cardboard cutout. It made it easier to see the negative space.

I was his assistant. That means clean up before the class and after and make sure everyone has enough paper. Please read about his class at his blog. He asked me to upload some photos to his blog but for some unknown reason it's blocked at the moment so I'm including the photos here. Next week's class covers gesture. Drop in fee is $25, of which a portion goes to the model.

A J Gallery Notes: Art Opening, Friday, June 19th

Friendship....the Bread.

Seriously, someone gave me a starter for an Amish Friendship Bread with a sheet of instructions. 10 days later I made two loaves of very tasty bread and 4 starters of my own to pass on to friends... Now it's 10 days later again and I have two more loaves, my friends have two loaves each and we all have more starters to pass on. You see where this is going. It's a pyramid scam where we will run out of friends to give these to and the funniest part is we are all on the same schedule, baking 10 days later and having more of these starters (and so on). It's way too funny. Of course, I gave one to my paint buddy, Arthur. He was wondering if we really have to go through all this (the instructions call for mushing and mushing everyday and adding ingredients along the way) or if we could just bake using the recipe without the starter, really, because of all this dividing you end up using only 1 cup of starter so it becomes kind of a minor part of the recipe... I guess someone will have to do a test, but I suspect this is to just keep one on a baking schedule... at least no one said if you break this 'chain' something terrible might happen. Arthur, please do the test so we can find out if we can stop baking every 10 days...

Rogerio turns 50

A good friend is turning the Big 5-0, which of course doesn't seem so old in scale any more, but it's still a significant number (next one being 100?--).

Anyway, my friend is into yoga but his other passion which we all kind of share, though aren't as proficient at it as he is is Sudoku. But I thought maybe this image was a little more dignified. He is the king of Sudoku in our neighborhood though.

Cheers, Rogerio.

Our jobs.

Some people get the attitude that because we love what we do it isn't work anymore. But the truth to me is that this is what I do for a living so even though it's kinda fun, okay, really fun, it's still 'work'. Here's Arthur and Cosette discussing her painting (at the jobsite)--yesterday.

Adam should have won.

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Joy of drawing.

Sometimes we get a model that is so perfect they are almost too easy to draw. And because of this also a joy thanks to all the parts being in proportion. Such was the case last Saturday for our life drawing session. This is a drawing I just did here on the computer from memory. See, pretty effortless, even with a mouse.

New Pareos for the gallery

How I spent my Tuesday afternoon with Arthur, the silk screen king...

Kalani Part 3, Performance Art

The performance portion of the program was short, only two dances, one with hula dancers doing O Pele with a silk dancer and then Kimo doing a solo.

Kalani Art Show

Right after the opening ceremony Kalani hosted an art and performance show. It's a local style show, people from the neighborhood but mostly Kalani volunteers show their craft. There's always a lot of creativity that comes through Kalani. I participated with 3 new pieces, including a portrait of a hula dancer (because I was told that was the theme, notice how everyone complied...)

Kalani opens their Aloha Center

Kalani honua has a new office and cafe at the entrance of the eco resort. Sunday Kimo, beloved hula instructor at Kalani, headed a ceremononial chant to bless the new space with the help of Dottie.

Merrie Monarch Parade

It's already come and gone. We opened the gallery on Saturday so we could watch the parade. Here are some photos though half way through my camera ran out of juice.