Esperanza Spaulding graced Arcata with her presence. We love Espe!!!

Last set of SF Giants images from the World Series: Brian "Fear the Beard" Wilson, and fab Renteria.

World Series, Giants, three more iPad paintings, done "live" while watching the games on TV. Fun!

World Series, Giants: more iPad paintings of Giants.

The Giants, Lincecum, Uribe, Ross, and the guy with the real beard.Los Gigantes! World Series Oct. 27 & 28

Who would have thought I would be sketching baseball players? Blame the iPad. Just sitting here with Gordon and the bird, trying to catch the "looks" of the players as the throw, swivel, spit, hit and dance.

An invitation to 7+ art exhibit at the Upstairs Gallery, Umpqua Bank, Arts Arcata Oct. 8

post cards from trip using the app artStudio on iPad

Fundraiser for Madrigal Singers, who were stuck in Verona (poor babies!) in April because of the Eyjafjallajoekulll eruption.

Robin Hashem Volcanic ash hit close to home last April when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption disrupted life in Arcata, stranding the Arcata High School Madrigal Choir in Italy and binding them together in friendship and unanticipated debt.

Another explosion of sorts on Friday, Aug. 13 will bring the choir closer to wiping out that nearly $20,000 extra debt and give the local community a unique opportunity to buy fine art at a good price. Along with the usual Arts!Arcata tour that night, art from the private collections of community members will be on display from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the former Geppetto’s location on the corner of 9th and G Sts as part of a silent auction to raise money for the choir. This unusual sale includes work from significant artists like George Van Hook, John Wesa, Tom Knight, Keith Schneider, Mimi LaPlant and Patricia Sennott, plus a Japanese Kyugetsu doll and North Redwoods Art Guild (NORBAG) items. The public is invited to drop in any time between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. to enter a silent bid on the art pieces, many of which have starting bids as low as $10. In addition, there will be live music throughout the night, plus wine served for a donation.

Also, as a natural tie-in to the disruptive Eyjafjallajökull event, artist Claire Iris Schencke will offer a signed print of her Eyjafjallajökull Eruption l. The print is part of her GLACIER ART PROJECT (www.claireirisschencke.com), a series depicting the “fragile beauty of glaciers.” Schencke hopes this work will contribute to the debate on how to prevent ice melt.

This auction is the brainchild of Julie Fulkerson, who enlisted the aid of Mayor Alex Stillman and former “orchestra mom” Robin Hashem to bring it to fruition. Fulkerson, a former Madrigal Choir singer herself, knows what a challenge it is to raise funds, “especially during the summer when school is out.”

Instead of asking artists to donate their art, the trio asked friends and strangers to support the award-winning young singers by contributing art from their personal collections for the auction. Fulkerson said “some of my friends have been collecting for decades and have run out of wall space.”

“Art is such an important part of our lives. This silent auction is a great opportunity for young people to purchase art that is quite valuable but, thanks to this auction, now affordable and in reach of pocket books of all sizes,” said Stillman.

"Art Explosion" silent auction during Arts!Arcata

Friday, August 13, 2010 at 6:00pm

corner of 9th & G Sts, Arcata

Julie Fulkerson made the poster, and Robin Hashem the press release. Come the the Art Auction! A fabulous opportunity and a good deed.

Not much left of the old plankway railtrack.

Standing at the Marsh by Cobb lake in last winter's storm, I thought the stumps left of the old plankway railroad would soon not be visible at all. I wanted to document their existence with a painting. Yesterday in the still sunshine and very low tide they seemed much diminished.

Read the plaque and ponder the furious shipping of redwood from Arcata, then called Union.

A singular impression: montoype with pictograph

A monotype including both direct transfer drawing, the dark line, and reversed transfer drawing, the light line. Trundled through the press once.

Look what I found on the beach near the surfing spot on the North Spit called Power Poles.

Solnedgång i skärgården. Efter foto av Gudmund Nannesson.

Dreaming of the pink granite cliffs of Åland.

More Eyjafjalljoekull art, these inspired by a photo by Lucas Jackson

Tiny Dragons for Matt on Mother's Day

Flowers for Mother on Mother's Day!

Eyjafjallajoekull - lovely glacier

Here's an etching on a monotype of the peaceful smallish glacier with the long name: Eyjafjallajoekull. It happens to sit on top a fissure that erupted so forcefully, and darkened the skies over most of Europe.

from the volcanism blog: Just a few things Eyjafjallajoekull has screwed up

Just some of the things Eyjafjallajökull has screwed up 23 April 2010

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(In addition to grounding European aviation for days on end and exhausting headline-writers’ supplies of volcano puns.)

The UK General Election … betting on 2010 temperatures … Southern California music festival … UK schoolgirls’ geography field trip … the Norwegian Government (iPad to the rescue) … touring wrestlers … Boston Marathon runners … the London Book Fair … health of pets … football, ice hockey and running … Premier League referees … the gilded progresses of celebs and pop stars … John Cleese’s trip home … football, cycling and running … Polish state funeral … transport of wounded soldiers … Dubai luxury hotel opening … Morocco golf tournaments … exams, exotic foods and surgery … yet more celebs (Hollywood ‘paralized’, no less) … Japan MotoGP … the international oil market … and even more celebs … European stocks and shares … Kenyan flower growers … Kenyan vegetable growers … movie premieres … BMW production in South Carolina … and still more celebs (superstar forced to take Irish Sea ferry) … youth boxing … equestrianism … football (also boxing, running, tennis, motorcyle racing) … organ transplants … Ghana farming, war crimes trials, rose growing, car making, flowers for New York weddings … travel plans of dogs, horses, snakes, geckos, turtles … classical concerts in San Diego … classical concerts in Salt Lake City … classical concerts in New York … Tribeca Film Festival … Metallica tour (kings of heavy metal fight back, take bus) … supplies of sea urchins, monkfish livers and scallops to British restaurants … art shipments … weddings … weddings … computer gaming events … airline emissions regulation … Indian TV host’s IPL contract (seems rather unfair) … Italian guitar players … supply chain resilience, whatever that is … college admissions … scareware cyberscams

The Volcanism blog is a interesting read. Check it out.

The timely return of Carol Jacobson and the ArMac Madrigal singers from Verona. The visit of my cousins from Finland.

Two new shorescapes. Celebrating the Foggy Moonstone Beach

Iceland Volcanic Eruption. Painting of glacial lake: Gigjoekull lagoon

Eyjafjallajoekull continues to be on my mind. At the lowest point this icecap forms a glacial tongue that slides down into a lagoon, where it breaks off into floating icebergs. Or did when I was there and the volcano under the glacier was dormant. Here is my monotype painting of this glacial lake.

Iceland Volcanic Eruption. The braided glacial river Krossa drains Eyjafjallajoekull

The river Krossa must now be a raging torrent, destroying roads and bridges. We traversed it both coming and going in a huge multi- wheel- drive vehicle. On our return in the late afternoon we were bumped and jostled, as the meltwater made the streams wider and deeper.

Eyjafjallajökull, exiting discovery of my own plain air sketch of it.

Just looked up the location of the erupting volcano on Google Earth - erupting right under a large glacier (jökull means glacier in Icelandic) and realized that my sister Sanna and I spent a day hiking, taking pictures and painting within view of it, in the Thorsmörk wilderness. I actually have a plain air rendition of it for you to see.

We also crossed the river Krosso, in a huge many wheel drive vehicle both coming and going. A huge challenge on the late afternoon return when the river was up from the glacial melt. At the end of the day we ran into a wedding party all mounted on the beautiful small Icelandic horses.

Two mixed media pieces of the Eyjafjalljokull erupting volcano in Iceland

"Many airports were expected to remain closed at least until Saturday, and officials warned of an unprecedented bottleneck in global air traffic. Scientists, unable to estimate when the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano might end, predicted that it could take hours, days or far longer for European skies to clear of the ash particles that experts say could choke jet engines enough to shut them down." from the Washington Post

Hopefully my cousins from Finland, who are planning to fly here on Monday the 19th of April can make it. Alternative route would be to catch a boat ; -) to Iceland and take a plane from Reykjavik airport - which ironically as of this morning was open. The ash is all blowing southeast.

Here are two paintings - digitally manipulated monotypes - that I just created to mark this event.

It is a beautiful and powerful spectacle. But what a disaster for Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull is a huge glacier and the volcanic eruption is causing it to melt with the result of great flooding, wrecked highways and bridges; I also feel sorry for all the stranded travelers, and the already economically stressed airlines. Our local ArMac Orchestra members and chaperones, with maestra Carol Jacobson are stuck in Verona.