The Lonely Robot

Fancy a Pint?

Available now on the 3 Fish Studios Store. I am pricing them at $10.00 because that is what I paid for one in Dublin.

My Yosemite

My little camera takes big pictures.  Two of the better ones from this week's trip are above.  I am particularly fond of the one on the bottom, which is a shot of the face of Halfdome from the Mirror Lake trail at dusk.  Incredibly beautiful part of the world.

St. Patrick's Day Post

I thought it only fitting that since my house if full of Irish people that I document some of our time together so far.  Here are some shots going to and from the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday on the N Judah, the enusing party we had at our house with our friends and their beautiful children, the tour of the USS Hornet in Alameda, and a ride through Treasure Island on a stormy day.

San Francisco's Central Freeway

I have been working with this image for about 2 years.  I took the shot under the freeway near the ArtSpan offices on 8th and Brannan when I was dropping off a piece for an exhibit.  It was afternoon, and the light was amazing.

I made an etching of it - my first aquatint.  The image above is how I began to mask out the areas so I could build up my lights and darks (the longer the plate is exposed to acid, the deeper the etch, and the darker the tone)

This is a watercolor study of how I wanted to tones to play out.

Here is the final etching above - I liked the result, but it was a wee bit small, only 6"x4". 

For the last year or so I have been toying with the idea of painting the image on canvas.  Yesterday was that day, when I put some hours into a painting that had been sitting around the studio for months.  Here is the result:

This is 36"x24".  I have just a little more work to do to it, but it will be ready to show on Friday for our event at the studio.  Hope to see you there!

Today we celebrate St. Patrick's day at the Beach House.  We have Annie's family in town from Wexford, Ireland, and we'll be hosting a party for about 40. Here is a little leppy-dude to commemorate the day:

More Life Drawing

Monday night means more drawing.  Here are two I did tonight in my big sketchbook.  I put a dollar in for scale.  I'm drawing with a water soluble pencil - I lay down the contours first and then go back and wash it with a brush.  It's an exercise in staying loose. Both of these drawing are 20 minutes each.

It's Spring!

I just took this shot of our back garden from the sun-warm deck this morning.  The new leaves are popping out, the daffodils are up, and everything is looking healthy and green.

I frickin' LOVE this time of the year.

Dogpatch

Lexical Gap

Just finished this one today.  Acrylic on Canvas - 24"x24"

Art SF Style

Monday I hung up my robots next to Annie's 49 Mile Drive prints at Zinc Details.

Tuesday I hung out with Annie at Sketch Tuesday at 111 Minna with about 250 other people.

Friday and Saturday was hanging out at the Verdi Club, once for the Monster Drawing Rally, and again the next day for the Noise Pop 'N Shop.  Big crowds both days.

Today I hung up every single one of my linocut prints in my studio.  18 to date.

And tonight I went to Fort Mason and did some life drawing while the wind howled outside.  Tonight I used my huge sketch book - each page is 18x24, which makes this drawing is 3 feet wide by 2 feet tall.