Architectural Photography in the Year of the Dragon

Apparently this is my year. The year of the Water Dragon. I am happy to say, I am finally completing my architecture website. This other digital studio has been on the back burner for about a year , but it looks like 2012 is the antithesis of  procrastination. A year that quickens…like a strong sun [...]

Read Full Post »

Confession of a Lurker | Entry for ONE LIFE International Photography Competition

I decided to participate ( characteristically last-minute) to ONE LIFE, an international photography competition, in the ‘City Imagery’ category. Click here (or on the image above) to see the entry at a higher resolution and, if you like what you see, vote and share my photograph. The prize is $10,000 or a trip around the world. [...]

Read Full Post »

XRay of my Brain II

My second board for the faculty display wall. I now have a list of new art to add to my portfolio tabs, as this was a great opportunity to curate my artwork. It feels great to be done (for now). Happy Halloween!

Read Full Post »

New Eyes

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

Read Full Post »

San Diego Art Happenings

Daydream, delusion, limousine, eyelash Oh baby with your pretty face Drop a tear in my wineglass Look at those big eyes See what you mean to me Sweet-cakes and milkshakes I’m a delusion angel I’m a fantasy parade I want you to know what I think Don’t want you to guess anymore You have no [...]

Read Full Post »

Swimming in Precarious Gossamer

All photos taken using Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera with Leica wide lens Mother of Pearl, translucent Wispy, cloudlike, ethereal Ephemeral, iridescent Gossamer.

Read Full Post »

Typewriters! My first Sketchbook Exchange {Joy}

Do you remember this, my sketchbook exchange with Jennifer of Habit of Design? I actually completed my ‘project’ last week, but wanted to wait till Jennifer received my sketchbook by mail so not to spoil the surprise! The cover, before and after….. (yes I was not authorized to operate on the sketchbook cover…I did it [...]

Read Full Post »

Sleep…Perchance to Dream.

“To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there’s the rub.” Hamlet (III, i, 65-68) Ink on Paper. September 2009

Read Full Post »

Convocation

Today the whole school attended Convocation, to kick off the new school year and Fall semester. The venue was spectacular: Copley Symphony Hall, built in 1929. I took some liberty with the size of the coffers, and the left side was a little too ‘spanish rococo curlicue nonsense’ for my taste. As the sandiegosymphony.com site [...]

Read Full Post »

Of Fragments, inspiration, and being remarkable.

F R A G M E N T S is a series that I am starting to ‘salvage’ pieces of artworks in my digital trunk. I sometimes find old artwork that, while it may not work perfectly on the whole, still contains interesting textures or details. The image above is part of a larger digital [...]

Read Full Post »

Coffee, watercolors, and Robert Venturi

I have been experimenting with sepia tones done using espresso and with watercolors. I am teaching a Rendering and Delineation class and the work done as demonstration for the students was great inspiration to continue sketching and using different ways to color the initial drawing. I suggested to my students a technique that I found [...]

Read Full Post »

Experiment in Jewelry Design

  Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’ I designed this piece in the summer of 2008. Here is the concept on a Post-It (where else?). I then took it to a friend of mine in Calabria who has a jewelry shop and, from this design,her and the metalsmith first made a wax model then used  brushed silver to [...]

Read Full Post »

thankyou so much for visiting…[portfolios finally... finally!]

My portfolio albums:  please click on the tabs on top of the page for my in-progress portfolio of work. Drawing Painting and Collages Photography Check back often as I am digitizing all my work:) …this is a Long awaited moment. I wanted to have my small corner of the online galaxy since 2002, and I [...]

Read Full Post »