Huntington Beach Art Center
I went to HBAC opening last night, there was some nice things on display and people there were well behaved. Links to some artist sites: www.phillipgraffham.com, gradportraits.com,http://silverblueglass.blogspot.com/
 I passed some of my prints out to quite a few people...
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Painting Completed
I finished this painting about two weeks ago; I just need to finish the title and take some better pictures of it and i will post it up in the Painting section.
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Painting in Progress
This oil painting has been in the works for about two months, here are some pics that show its progression...
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Rough sketches for screen prints...
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Example of a paper print we've done in the past.
 
 
So yesterday I went to Courbet Art Circle in Santa Ana; it was fun drawing from a live mode for a couple hours. Nice folks over there. Here are my sketches:
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I also went to the Alex Chiu Opening at Rothick Art Haus in Anaheim.  Some of Alex's work is really nice and some it felt rushed.  There was a band who didn't grab my attention, but luckily down the street form that was a Dr. Sketchy's art show in a tiny gallery that had an oddly slanted ceiling. On the walls was a variety of beautiful sketch's done by a variety of talented people. Also some one was carrying a tiny handicapped looking cat with them. It had a tiny pink sweater on...
 
 
So I submitted some screen prints to the HBAC yesterday, that show will open on Friday January 21, 2011. Should be a fun show...

Visit: http://www.huntingtonbeachartcenter.org/
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Here is some silkscreen prints I made as a birthday gift for a friend.  I finally got a chance to use my Perma Print ink retarder, it works awsome! It really slowed down the drying time which is what i needed. the Top image is a mix of graphite dust and Perma Print Extender. 
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Happy New Year! New blog, New year. I have many plans this year that I will accomplish...
Old blog still up : www.swartzart.blogspot.com

 

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