Sunday, February 7, 2021

Been aWhile








Hello Everybody! What a wild ride we've been on lately, huh? Such a long, strange trip it's been (and even from our own living-rooms).

I'm still painting in oils but not as much. Something nudges to do some writing, and the idea of digital painting whispers too. Seems fitting (as my understanding of the quantum grows along with the burgeoning awareness that we are energy --in temporary physical matter right now) that my creative inspiration is also more in tune with a different type of energy.

Here's something: It's actually more of a Photoshop composite than a digital painting, but it's a start.
"Far From Home" digital download $5 https://www.etsy.com/listing/937763728


And, here's a bit of micro-writing:
Spinning Wheel The spinning wheel of death, as it is called, is forcing me to force-quit. As I poise my index finger over the power button, hovering there like a cat ready to pounce on some imaginary spot on the rug (an invisible sprite?), I pull my finger back a little looking again at the spinning color wheel on my laptop screen, so pretty all those rainbow colors but oh so despicable; frozen in time. I'm hoping hoping that it will stop and I will not have to do it; to force quit. Then suddenly the wheel vanishes. Poof. Gone. But it must've gone somewhere that's the law.

I avert my gaze from the screen to ponder this, cocking my head robotic-like to the right. I reach out my hand. Ahh, ok. There it is. My right index finger (the one not wanting to force-quit) is now a vibrant orange. The other reflected colors sparkle on my palm from the dangling window prism, a ball of red/purple/blue/green/yellow. I have become the spinning color wheel. But I am very much alive. And I have no need to force quit.


OK, that's it for now. Hope things are OK with each of you.

Thanks! -Puci

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

The Persistance of Impermanence

Intention For The Painting
I love the idea of portals as a visual metaphor for change and transcendence. As well, I've been doing a lot of studying about our lives in Spirit, and so also wanted to paint something related to that. This painting is another addition to my ongoing Portals series of paintings. 
Pinterest "Portals" board: https://www.pinterest.com/puciart/portals/

The Persistence of Permanence, 4x6" oil painting

detail 1
detail 2

Monday, June 10, 2019

Library Exhibit Info

Hello! If you're reading this, you may have followed a link posted at the Livingston MT/Park County public library, where many of my "Street Views" paintings are currently on exhibit & for sale.

These paintings are from my "Paintings along the Superhighway" series & blog post. Here's the link to the gallery page:
  https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3234279187380286857#editor/target=page;pageID=7073161673607910432;onPublishedMenu=allpages;onClosedMenu=allpages;postNum=0;src=link

I've been a fine arts oil painter for ...a long time! with collectors world-wide. I also paint custom oil portrait paintings (of pets & people) from your photos:   https://www.etsy.com/shop/puciPetPortraits

Info about the paintings on exhibit:
• the 30 paintings on exhibit are sold as-is, unframed and in their original state before cropping
• all are oil paintings on primed/prepared canvas paper, canvas pad or cut canvas at approx. 8x10"
• each painting is $97 with free shipping within the U.S.
• each painting is based on a scene that caught-my-eye via google street views virtual travel
• questions &/or interested in purchase? Please email me at puci@puciart.com


(caption below each painting has info & link to blog post )
1. The Final Gate
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-final-gate-sri-lanka-54.html


2. Tulips (Czech Republic)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/10/red-tulips-in-one-corner-of-czech.html
3. Crossing theThreshold (Via Borgo Aretino, Assisi, Umbria Italy)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/06/finished-painting-crossing-threshold.html
4. Brooklyn Bridge (New York USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-finished-painting-brooklyn-bridge.html
5. Remembering (Cambocia)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/07/remembering-cambodia-58.html


   6. Homeward Bound (Golden Gate Park in San Francisco CA USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-finished-painting-homeward-bound.html
7. Norwegian Woods (Norway)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/08/norwegian-woods-59.html
8. Donato (Lazio, Italy)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/01/donatos-cousin-27.html
9. Carpenter (Lazio, Italy)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/01/il-falegname-carpenter-28.html
10. Filomena (Lazio, Itlay)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/12/as-if-in-recognition-familia-26.html
11. Three Men on a Bench (Cambodia)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/07/3-men-on-bench-cambodia-57.html


12. The Stones Speak (Joshua Tree Natl Park, Mojave Desert, CA USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-stones-speak-joshua-tree-national.html
13. NY (New York USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-new-york-minute-37_29.html
14. Pristine Light (Møre og Romsdal, Norway)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-pristine-light-of-norway-25.html
15. Sheep (Cheviot Mornin, Scotland)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/01/cheviot-mornin-scotland-51.html
16. A Way IN (Majorca, Spain)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-way-in-53.html
17. It Hasta be Shasta (Mt. Shasta, CA USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/06/finished-painting-it-hasta-be-shasta.html
18. The Red Umbrella (Gaberone, South Africa) SOLD
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/02/red-umbrella.html
19. Arches (Arches Nat'l Park, Moab, Utah USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-finished-painting-arches-national.html
20. Sea Turtle (Texas Gulf Coast USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/07/sea-turtle-43.html
21. Grand Canyon #1 (GC Nat'l Park, AZ USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-finished-painting-grand-canyon.html

22. Grand Canyon #2 (GC Nat'l Park, AZ USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-finished-painting-4-grand-canyon.html
23. Grand Canyon #3 (GC Nat'l Park, AZ USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-finished-painting-grand-canyon_31.html
24. Grand Canyon #4 (GC Nat'l Park, AZ USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-finished-painting-3-grand-canyon_3.html

 
25. Cows inear Swaziland (South Africa) SOLD
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-finished-painting-cows-near.html
26. Light House (Cape Alguhas, South Africa)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-finished-painting-lighthouse-of.html
27. Greensleeves (New Zealand)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-finished-painting-greensleeves-of.html
28. Ocean Beach, San Francisco CA
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/05/san-francisco-ocean-beach-wsun-glade-39.html
29. Angel Clouds (LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA. USA)
http://astreetviewaday.blogspot.com/2014/02/angeles-31.html