Airstreams and dreams

Mystery Caravan, oil on canvas, 10 x 10 in.

I have a few pieces in the back room at City Art this month, in a show of all square works:  6 x 6, 8 x 8, 10 x 10 and 12 x 12 inches.  Squares are a challenge to work in - but a dream to decorate with once they are done.  They always look good together and you can arrange them however you want.
I have been painting more little fires in the woods, more bar scenes on canvatex, a couple very small but unmistakable San Francisco scenes, putting the finishing touches on some large portraits, and doing studies for a new subject that I'm super excited about - and not going to tell you about yet. 
I'll be showing at City Art again in September with the Gypsy theme show I've been wanting to do for ages, participating in San Francisco Open Studios 2011 at Workspace Limited, and more, that I will fill you in on later.

Hooray for Tziganes!

Grace, oil on canvas, 15 x 12 in.

More etsy treasuries:
tzigane treasury
motorcycles & beer
Treasuries are so much fun, and so varied (as you can see). I wish I had the time to make some. . .

Food and wine: London! San Francisco! Leeds!

Spanish Bar oil on canvas-paper 16 x 12 in. matted & framed

Christa at Cafe du Nord oil on canvas-paper 12 x 16 in. matted & framed

Baccio Boys oil on canvas 20 x 30 in.

Point Reyes

Beautiful drive today up to Point Reyes, to drop off two little fire paintings for the annual juried exhibition at Gallery Route One.  Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator for the Oakland Museum, was the juror and "My Parents' Garden" got an award of merit.  Do visit if you're up that way.

Gallery Route One's 26th Annual January Juried Show
Jan. 21 - Feb. 20 2011,11am - 5pm daily, closed Tuesdays
Opening Reception Sunday, January 23, 3 - 5pm 

Gallery Route One
11101 Highway One
Point Reyes Station CA
www.galleryrouteone.org

"Natasha," acrylic on paper 10 x 8 in.

I have a few paintings in City Art's backroom gallery "Affordable Art" this month: small works and some real steals. The show will continue through January, so if you can give gift certificates for art for the holidays! See their website for the extended hours:
cityartgallery.org 


Also I will be doing another demonstration at Flax Art on Saturday, December 11 from 2 - 5pm with more opportunity to purchase paintings.
flaxart.com

Live demonstration

Flax Art on Market Street in San Francisco is celebrating 72 years with Flax Fest, free demonstrations and seminars in the store through the end of October.
I will be painting live at Flax this Friday. I'll show how I work in oils on canvas paper, using photographs as a source. Canvas pad is like a pad of paper, but each sheet is primed canvas. I use stretched canvases all the time, but I like canvas paper because you can easily cut it down to the composition you like at any time. Also, stretched canvas has texture and some give, but canvas paper is smoother, and you're working on a rigid surface which makes the technique of "erasing" the paint easier.
There are some paintings done with these materials, which I matt and frame, in my Feb. 09 blog:

News of Autumn 2010

Paintings from my new Etsy store, www.hadleynorthrop.etsy.com got used in three Etsy treasuries
www.etsy.com/treasury/4c8be4f3b2838eefe4c4323a/from-the-cradle-to-the-grave?index=116

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4ca275e9c8ca6d910bb4560a/cheers-i-miss-you
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4cac945006b26d91604acea8/meet-you-at-the-bar
five of my items got <3s,
and I had my first quote on Twitter "http://twitter.com/SFCITYART"
(I said small paintings of cute camper vans but I guess it didn't fit).
I never thought I would sink so low!


Meanwhile, back in the real world, I have some paintings up at City Art Gallery this month, at 828 Valencia (between 19th & 20th Street) in San Francisco.
City Art is open Wed. - Sun. noon - nine and the show runs through the last Saturday of September, the 25th, coming down on the afternoon of the 26th.
As Twitter says, I am showing small paintings of cute camper vans and large paintings of cool musicians.
cityartgallery.org/showing.html


I am getting ready for Fall Open Studios, at Workspace Limited at 2150 Folsom Street (between 17th and 18th) San Francisco.  That will be Saturday and Sunday October 9 - 10 from 11am - 6pm with a preview event Friday October 8 from 7 - 10pm.
The gallery downstairs will be curated by Nathan Larramendy, associate director of the Catharine Clark Gallery.
Send your postal address if you'd like to be on my mailing list.  And don't miss the SF Open Studios Exhibition at SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan St. (between 8th & 9th).  It will be open to the public October 6 through 24. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Friday noon - 4pm and Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm.
Each participating Open Studios artist has one piece in this show, so you can go through the hundreds of works of art with your guide and mark the studios you would like to visit.
http://artspan.org/user/4529