Ojai Museum Piece

Going back a few posts I mentioned I had to do a piece for this years Ojai Studio Artist's show at the Ojai Museum. I chose (instead of doing something on the #10) to take a work from 10 years ago and update it (instead of the other option of working with the #10 as a theme). As promised here it is.... 12"x12" oil on board with gold leaf from 2002
I decided after picking the image from 10 years ago not to look at it again. I then did above sketch for new painting.
And the finished new piece. You can see I did change a things a bit as I started painting, but unfortunately I like the one from 2002 better. I hope that doesn't mean I 'peaked' 10 years ago. Now that I look at them together I can see what is is that I like better about the first one, but I won't nitpick. I know too well from experience that my own opinion doesn't always count.

Come by if you're in the area on this Saturday!

Linda Taylor our fearless president..........(and print maker extraordinaire)

These (the top one for sure) are two pieces of my most recent work that will be in the show. It should be fun to see what Michele Pracy the new museum director chose. Usually each artist brings a piece. For the first time the museum itself will have curated the whole thing. (And that was a lot of studio visits on Michele's part).