Post #447229 by kooche on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 10:45 AM

the book question has been posed previously and it has been a dream of mine to publish something for a great many years. i only recently realized that to really make it worth the while there has to be a really significant reason to go to print, that being a great story - CHARACTER. Tell Tale Tiki will never see the light of day though i do think that there was a great story there - it's about living with lost love as a haunting monster curse... the end... Pasadena Rosa is however a story i am still very interested in making into a book and am maintaining research on. it's a narrative about CA's history i wanted to weave into a series of multimedia images for graphic novel. as for an ART OF book ... i imagine later in life you'll have something on your coffee table if we aren't all swept away by the tide's rising or burned to a crisp by the godlike sun we share. i don't want to publish a flimsy catalog or pamphlet - ever

this show probably isn't going to be called Muses - that theme i imagine being more about musicians - lots of biographic portraits... another show i was going to do up in SF and may when i get time. i am a huge music nut and there is plenty of inspirado there. the inspiration for THIS show however has become local flavor of the week

shirley temple
the little rascals
chaplin
keaton
fatty
virginia wrappe

what'd i say?

some repeat offender portraits interest me too

another :

henry miller
walt disney
john muir
marilyn

the change of style or subject matter is the excuse to do the research and that is the motivation to paint - the escape route to my personal salvation! isn't that what Kon Tiki set to sea to find? peace in paradise? haven't we all been looking to eek out our own personal slice of that since slime crawled from mother ocean?

thanks everyone for your thoughts and continued interest - i'll post an image soon