Dec
23
Snowboarding Santa Happily Merry
Guess Santa can surf too!
Dec
16
Tippy-toe Santas Delivering Soon
How fast does Santa have to go to do all that work on Christmas eve? Sounds like it will be a quantum Santa, but magic is magic, after all. Hope you're having fun being Santa this year, if that's your role.
Dec
3
Requests
Sometimes I get certain requests for specific subjects from my window painting jobs. Here was one. Dogs commonly would come to work with their people, so it was more than appropriate.
Dec
3
Flying Frosties
Blistering heat while I was painting this snow scene. Had to stop and get a glass of water...
Dec
2
What Santa Does On His Days Off
Many people spend time imagining what Santa must do on all those other days of the year he doesn't have to work. The answer is that Santa is a farmer, of sorts, who has lots of free labor to do all his assembly work. He gets the glory. Here, Santa is having a good time at the bowling alley in San Rafael.
Nov
28
Window Contest Missed by a Hair!
Today I did the outside of a classic car dealership that I've been decorating every year for the last thirty years. There was a windowpainting contest in the area, with prizes. Sadly, both the car dealer and myself didn't know that we had to register to win - and we would have won because we were the best!
The next one below is a detail of the one above. I did the lettering with three different colors of markers, outlining on both sides with shadowing.
The next one below is a detail of the one above. I did the lettering with three different colors of markers, outlining on both sides with shadowing.
Nov
20
Gearing Up For Window Painting
Got my markers and paint smearing equipment together. Now I'm on a mission to mess up people's windows for this year's holiday season. Yesterday did a really fun Santa on a bike for the Fairfax Cyclery. The guy who owned the store had the novel idea of trying to get more in trade for the cost of his window. So far, nobody has taken the bite, but he got a really nice Santa on the BMX. My apprentice Denise held up the bike while I drew it on the window.
Nov
11
There and Back Again
Now, it is November and I've flown off from the Big Island of Hawaii to mainland California since after election day. My objectives are to clean up my act and to paint up windows for the holidays.
Last week, I've already done a holiday window for a game store in Concord, CA. They deemed that having a winter scene with Bilbo Baggins in it would be suitably festive for the holidays. They mused that perhaps the same fantasy scene would do for attracting attention the entire year.
Last week, I've already done a holiday window for a game store in Concord, CA. They deemed that having a winter scene with Bilbo Baggins in it would be suitably festive for the holidays. They mused that perhaps the same fantasy scene would do for attracting attention the entire year.
Oct
22
Bittersweet Nostalgia
I get a bittersweet sense lately. As a piece of music that must end at some point, our time together is limited.
Guessing that progress is cumulative in some ways. Maybe it also cyclical? I keep coming around again and again to a rash of activities that I seem to be abandoning at the same time. I drop the threads and pick them up again. Then I come around to the other things I dropped again and again.
Author Barbara Sher would say that I'm a scanner.
Guessing that progress is cumulative in some ways. Maybe it also cyclical? I keep coming around again and again to a rash of activities that I seem to be abandoning at the same time. I drop the threads and pick them up again. Then I come around to the other things I dropped again and again.
Author Barbara Sher would say that I'm a scanner.
