Labor day weekend, last weeks of summer, school just started and I am back with new ideas for the fall. This painting is titled The Sun Goddess, and it is part of the series of the Four Seasons, with 4 symbolic images of nude form. The book is almost done and I keep looking for publisher. 2012 will mark 20 year anniversary of my emigration, it would be nice to come back with a book and exhibit, see if they still remember the old days in the old country...

School

School days are always inspiring? nerve wracking,? interesting, boring? quiet? loud? hillarious? or ...sometimes the days take me back to memories of myself being in school, I remember days when I was sitting in class like a zombie watching fuming teachers; "what do they want from us, leave us alone!", now I look at the student faces and I hear the same cry, cartoon speech bubbles are popping out forming the cloud of everlasting teenage fog of boredom.

I decided to start a comic book diary, a journal of a teacher who struggles with daily chores, I noticed that when i show them my drawings I'm getting some hints of interest, zombies are coming to life, waking up slowly and the energy is up...

Just a fragment...

Life is just a collection or maybe a recollection of fragments, shards from memory, further we walk down the pathway of existence more shards we live behind, more memories are missing, incomplete. Art is the way to put it back together, to make some sense out of this short journey.

Eons later, walking down the same street and turning around the corner to face a boarded archway, I thought that maybe I should leave this town. When I turned back, I could see the lighted windows of the living room up on the first floor of the yellow house. Years passed and I began my travels, further and further away until I settled on the other side of the globe. The yellow house became a symbolic picture, another clipping from my memory album. My mother presence alone in the apartment on the second story of the yellow house, made me feel safe. As usual she was waiting for me, now that my father was gone and I was just passing through, her waiting will be forever empty in the midst of bookcases, clothes, pictures, clocks, and a desk with an empty armchair.

Happy 2011

2011...obviously my new year commitment is to do more art, to be a better teacher and a better person...
big stuff, art is going pretty good, my sketchbook is filling out quickly and more ideas for my graphic book are being drawn out
few samples will post later, as usual my black and white drawings are kind of dark and moody but to make you feel better I will post a landscape...

from time to time I like to just sketch out something from nature, enjoy...
I am still shopping around for a publisher,

and since now I am finishing my winter vacation,

my first serious resolution after coming back home is to make the CALL.
In Sedona, last hike with my daughter Sara was so much fun we were doing yoga on the top of Cathedral rock and during the 4 hour hike we came up with a lot of creative new year resolutions. My short video from the hike is coming soon.
If you did not hike with your friend, partner, family or even solo, go out there, it is not to late, welcome the rising sun and bless life, seize the day...
it is awesome to be alive, healthy, all we need is the energy to prosper!
with love and friendship to all of you
Happy 2011!