“I didn’t realize that I have been a member of West Coast Drawing(previously San Diego Drawing Group) for seven years. We do a group exhibition once a year on average and this one is awesome. On exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art it is our first museum show! The reception is Saturday, July 17, [...]

“I am showing art at a 923 Lounge, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Show starts at 8p.m.. DJ Sachamo will supply the beats and there will also be live painting by Mark Richmond.
What makes this special for me is that ‘The Dissonance of Man & the Voice of Creation’ will be displayed for the first time!
This [...]

“This was the first time I completed a piece of art but was unable to see the final results first. Even my framer who constructed the back supports didn’t have a wall with a ceiling high enough to assemble the art. ‘Race Track’ is 9 feet tall!
Intimate Views is installed and open to the public [...]

“West Coast Drawing is a drawing group that I have been a member of at its inception in 2003, then named San Diego Drawing Group. We are having a group exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art. The exhibition is titled ‘Intimate  Views’ and runs June 12th - August 13th 2010 with the reception for [...]

“I entered ‘Theda’ in the competition at the last moment before heading off to San Francisco for the WonderCon with hopes of getting in the show. Well I did better than that. I was awarded The Hoffman Trust Award!
This award is a purchase award but two hurdles had to be crossed; ‘Theda’ was a [...]

Hello Everyone,
I hope you are well and are in good spirits.
Puna Press is going to San Francisco for the WonderCon!
We are in the small press area table # 9.
The event is being held at the Moscone Center, April 2 - 4, 2010.
For this event we are releasing a new print.

Murphy is one of two dog [...]

“What a furious pace to the finish. I will need some distance and time to tell if this is as strong a piece that I feel it is. Showed it to my drawing group and my framer. That’s right, it’s already at the framer. Thinking of entering it in the Southern California Regional Juried Award [...]

“The final pen and the flow is good.”

Theda
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“I could make all sorts of excuses, like I’ve been doing gigs reading and performing with the band, like Pruitt Igoe is recording a new album, like I’ve been prepping tax records for myself and Puna Press, like I’ve been working a lot, like Puna Press is preparing to go to the WonderCon in San [...]

“The Center for the Visual Arts of New Jersey’s 24th International Juried Exhibition is an awesome collection of art. The art is fantastic, strong work all around, the venue is beautiful, and the people were nice. In fact I plan to do some things with some of the artists I met at the opening.”
The Opening [...]

“First pass with the 3rd pen.”
Theda
©ted washington 2010

“Finished the second pen.”
Theda
©ted washington 2010

“Initial pass with the first pen.”
Theda

“Here is the current portrait I am doing. It’s my Aunt Theda from NYC. I want to have this done before my trip to NYC in January. Going to an art show in New Jersey, more on that on a later post. The size is 30″ h x 20″ w, the pencil is done and [...]

“Check this out. I talked with Angelo not knowing this would be the outcome. Awesome!”
My Day at the Alternative Press Expo 2009 by Angelo Lopez

I attended my first APE…

BRAND 38

“This piece was a request by some of my oldest friends for a cherry tree for their daughter’s wedding gift. Mark and Dana supported my art when I was unsure. They own one of my earliest works, ‘The Skier’, and I used to baby sit Kyle. Congratulations!”
Cherry Tree

Unconditional love