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All works below are pastel on paper, approx. 20″x26″, shipping within US included. Message for inquiries.

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It’s happening! @alan.tasky and I are opening our studio doors for the June ArtWalk - so you’ll be able to see not only our art, but also the art of our neighbors at @steinfeldgalleryandstudios next door! And if you stop by after 6, you can make it a night and catch the opening of @fpctucson’s Femme Perspectives show at Untitled Gallery proper. This Saturday 6/6, 4-8, 101 W 6th St Ste #121, Tucson, AZ 85701. #tucsonart #tucsonartist #artwalk "The Two of Us". There's an office building I often pass on my way into town, with glass walls angled so that you get a perfect reflection of the saguaro below. I just had to draw it - how often do you get to see a saguaro from above? An impromptu open studio! Today, 12-2, the back room studio of Untitled Gallery. 101 W 6th St Ste #121, Tucson, AZ 85701. You can see my saguaro scroll (turns out it’s actually 15 feet!), @alan.tasky’s lightbulb-themed installation featuring one of my drawings, and much more. Something different: tape and pastel! A couple weeks ago, I had a particularly unsuccessful drawing session (not pictured). Just about the only thing I liked in the drawing was what my orange pastel looked like over the little bit of blue painter's tape I was using to keep the paper from blowing away... Which... gave me an idea! I absolutely loved the sensation of "sculpting" with the tape before drawing over it. The technique almost recreates, in pastel, the bumpy and unexpected texture of oils that I love so much. And you can just peel parts off if the piece gets too busy! As always, an unsuccessful artwork is only a stepping stone to new discoveries. "Reconciliation." A year ago, this twisted and divided saguaro was fighting itself (image 2). Today, it's giving itself flowers. The next logical step on the art scroll journey! This is maybe 12 feet tall (with some more sky not shown), made outdoors (over maybe five mornings) while kneeling underneath the saguaro and unrolling the scroll one 18"x24" rectangle at a time. The flowers are just about life-size, though of course perspective saved me from having to truly make this as tall as a saguaro. “The Procession.” I’ve been challenging myself to start with a limited palette and only add new colors when I absolutely can’t bear not to (which happens after approximately three minutes... but the challenge still takes me to interesting places). When I passed this apparently religious procession of flower-wreathed saguaros, I briefly considered a palette of celestial blues - but that felt too on the nose. So I decided to clothe them in May Day greens instead. I immediately regretted my choice - I tend to avoid high intensity greens in my saguaros, since they can land me in an amateurish, candy version of realism. I steered clear of this fate by following my bliss - the simple joy of drawing the long lines of saguaro ribs and small ovals of flowers, which I sprinkled generously throughout the sky. Following the logic of lines and circles, I deconstructed my prickly pears into ovals and my chollas into scattered stick figures. Much thanks to Kandinsky - I’m currently reading a book about him, and I’ve been inspired by the way he can turn a simple shape into a full-blown character, with its own energy, gravity, and mood - and the way all those characters sing and dance together. I decided to steal @innarohr's idea to make figure drawings on big scrolls of paper! It's a wonderfully tactile and embodied process - I was lying on the floor on top of the paper for some of it, unrolling as I went, almost living inside the drawing. It felt a little bit like dancing. I spend too much time inside another kind of infinite scroll - trapped in a tiny phone-rectangle masquerading as an endless world - and it felt liberating to make this scroll human-sized, someplace with room for artist and viewer to stretch in without disappearing. Happening now till 7 pm at @tucsonfolkfest ! Booth 16.

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