In Progress: Robes II

This morning I finished adding the papers to my second batch of robes.  There are thirty-six more.  For some reason, I’ve been creating collections of six dozen: the crowns, the fans, the lotus flowers and now the robes.

If it continues to rain all weekend, I will pivot from other activities and focus on painting them.  I could conceivably finish them by September 1st.

I have them all spread out on the living room and dining room floors and on the dining room table.  I also have a color printout of the other three dozen to  cross reference – the finished paintings are currently in storage.

I am in love with them.  It was a lot harder to choose papers for these because I didn’t want to repeat myself.  The other “problem” was that there are a few I like better than others and I wasn’t sure I could select pattern combinations I’d like as well.  (I did though and so, I am very pleased with my progress.) <3

The Greatest Hazard

Hazard Branch Public Library is the latest location to host my artwork.

The library is located at 1620 W. Genesee Street, Syracuse, New York 13204.  They open at 9:00 AM every day except for Sunday.  It is the perfect place to showcase large paintings.

I brought these nine 36″ x 36″ target pieces out of the archives.  I made a dozen of them – sold one and kept two at home, as they are hanging on walls in my house.  I created them all in 1997 during a stint as a Master Teacher for the NYS Summer School of the Arts, which was housed at Cazenovia College that year.  These oil & collage paintings are framed in maple ($ 1,600).

In addition, you can find eighteen paintings from my series called Talisman.  These are also targets and are oil, chalkboard & collage, 18″ x 24″ – not framed ($ 400).

The show concludes on August 31, 2026.