Being in Control...
I completed this painting quickly. I don’t know where the idea came from and I had trouble coming up with a name for it. I’m guessing that my brain was trying to tell me that I am not in control. 
I completed this painting quickly. I don’t know where the idea came from and I had trouble coming up with a name for it. I’m guessing that my brain was trying to tell me that I am not in control.
I posted this painting last year (June 06) and the camera I used did not capture the color. I recently got a new camera and now you can see why it’s called Blue Angel.
For the past month or more I noticed that I was not feeling right about what I was doing. Not the painting, but the other stuff that I some how obliged myself to do. Meetings, strategies, business plans, financial plans and fundraising (for someone else). And then I remembered for me the only memorable line in the last of the Godfather movies “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Well I am out for good.
This is a painting subject that I’ve been fighting with for a while. Now I should be able to resolve it, I’ve got the time.
“Art Thursdays”, drawing and watercolor classes for beginning and intermediate
artists and a plein air open studio, to be held in Cave Creek beginning on January 17, 2008.
The classes will run for 8 weeks, through March 6.
“Beginning Drawing” will be taught by Larry Charles on Thursdays from 9 am to noon and Bill Lundquist will teach “Watercolor” from 1 to 4 pm at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, located at 6502 East Cave Creek Road. James Coulter’s “Plein Air Open Studio” will be held on location at different sites in the North Valley.
Registration begins on November 28th. For more information please call the School at 480-990-1422.
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The idea of making your own gifts is not intended to do harm to the established gift selling retail outlets. No harm intended.
Every year the “powers that be” dish out a mind boggling assortment of goodies, games and toys for all ages. This year I will add to the excitement with a series of small paintings. Most will be gifts to friends and family, but I think a good idea to give something that you’ve made.
I’ve opened the flood gates for Fruit Cake
I’ve been repeating this theme of a man and his child for close to 12 years. I’ve never been totally satisfied with the paintings that I’ve created (I may never be). This painting is as closed to what I wanted to say today and so I think it’s time to move on to a new topic. 
I am committed to created 50 new painting in 2008, and I’m going cheat by getting starting now. Why wait until New Years!
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Dr. Eugene Grigsby Jr. at the Heddenart Gallery, opening reception. November 1st 2007
Celebrating his 89th Birthday with 89 Paintings.
Dr. Grigsby has organized exhibitions of African art for the Heard Museum, authored a text, Art and Ethics: Background for Teaching in a Pluralistic Society, and founded the Consortium of Black Organizations and Others for the Arts (COBA).
He holds degrees, including a Ph.D., in art, art history and art education from Morehouse College, Ohio State University and New York University. He came to Phoenix following World War II to teach art at Carver High School, and in 1954 he moved to Phoenix Union High School. He joined the faculty at Arizona State University in 1966 where he retired in 1988. Grigsby also served as a Trustee of Phoenix Art Museum.
