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Yellow(c)B. Martin ‘00
When I had finished with this painting, I decided that it was about a home coming and thankfulness. The name came from the background.
Yellow(c)B. Martin ‘00
When I had finished with this painting, I decided that it was about a home coming and thankfulness. The name came from the background.
Its difficult to believe but we are heading in to another summer and life is still hard for many.
This is a plea for us not to get caught up with news of Hugh Grant, Phil Spector or Eve, but rather lets pay attention to something we can do something about, like the 20 or 30 wars that are going on in the world at this moment. If we must confine ourselves to being spectators, let go visit a gallery, museum, concert or anything live and applaud in appreciation.
Subway(c)Bob Martin ‘92
The Scottsdale Artists’ School wraps up
The Creative Process Lecture Series
for the season with a slide presentation of the work of world renown artist Joaquin Sorolla by painter John Kilroy. 
The lecture will take place at 7 pm Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Sorolla was born in Valencia, Spain in 1863 and had a very successful career as a “natural painter”—painting nature as it truly is, full of light and brightness. After his death in 1923, his work fell out of favor until the 1980s, when the art community reassessed his genius and recognized his talent and influences. John Kilroy, an artist whose work has been greatly influences by Sorolla, will teach a workshop The Big Picture: Picture Design, Concept And Analysis, April 30-May 4 at the Scottsdale Artists’ School. The lecture is held at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. 2nd Street in downtown Scottsdale. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased in person at Scottsdale Artists’ School, 3720 N. Marshall Way or by calling 480-990-1422. Free parking for each lecture is available in the public parking garage located to the west of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts building off 2nd Street.
I came across a “work in progress’ painting by Luis Colon I’m Still Here which I liked a great deal. The artist was not satisfied and made changes which is something I do all the time. 
The reasons Luis gave for making his changes had to do with the scale of the objects and I wondered if this the reason I liked the painting so much and why I have my difficulties painting still life’s?
I try very hard to get the relationship and size of the objects correct, but then I lose 
interest. The scale of the objects in this painting make no sense, but there is something about the painting that I’m beginning to like.
I usually stay away from themes, the stories in my paintings are not consistent from one painting to another, except that I normally say I am complete with a painting once I recognize the people who are in the painting. I don’t really know them, but they look to me like people who I would know.
It’s the faces that inspire me. I imagine the conversation that they are about to have, what concerns them and have they figured out the answer yet.
I’ve often heard writers talk about the dreams they have for the characters they’ve created for their novels. 
