My 2010 Project & Canvases

Just started the preliminary details of the Parris, CA project and I thought I would give you some background and details on how it's progressing.

First of all, lets start with the canvases:

The canvases are custom made. There are 8 custom canvases on aluminum stretchers instead of wood. The advantages are that the aluminum doesn't warp, and more cost effective than the wood.

They were made by Lucian Hudson, a well renowned custom canvas fabricator to well known artists. The surface of the canvas has the usual grain of cotton fabric and I prefer a very smooth surface. So it is required to paint the canvas with a very thick white paint called Gesso. You apply five coats and wet sand in between each coat until you get a very smooth glass like surface. The purpose of the smooth surface, you can paint more detail without having the texture interfere with the detail.

The next step is positioning the photographs which are 5 inches high to the canvas which is 9 inches high. So with fine tracing paper and shaping the paper to the size of the canvases you draw the outlines of the subject (in this case the buildings). Then you draw on the backside of the tracing paper with a charcoal pencil. At which point you press that side of the drawing onto the canvas and it gives you the outline of the objects. Details are not necessary at this stage.

Custom made canvases

some of many tracings

another trace done

This will be the longest painting

More to come on the next blog!

Bless You, Macey

LA Philharmonic & Music

Sunday we went to Disney Hall and the L.A.Phil with Christof Echinbach conducting.

Dvorak (Pronounced D'VOR-JACQUE ) Carnival Overture and the New World Symphony which is one of my favorites even though it's considered a "War Horse" by elite classical music snobs It has many recognizable melodies running thru it.

Going to the Symphony on Sunday afternoon encompasses practically the whole day they have a Cafe in the hall Run by Patina (also within the walls of Disney Hall ) So we have lunch then at 1pm, they present what they call L.A.LIVE where an expert on the program gives you background and anecdotes about the composers and musicians and then at 2pm is the concert ...

It's usually a full day and after spending 35 Professional years in the Rock N Roll world there's something very special about classical music that cleanses the brain and the soul I doubt if I could ever again go to a Rock concert at the peak of my former ( career ) life, I was out 3-4 nights a week listening to bands good and bad ( Mostly bad ) or visiting ours Clients at their venues......