In all the rush of the decision to move and the finishing of San Diego projects and commitments, I forgot to post any pictures of the show of my sky paintings that continues at Joe Bedford’s Coalesce Gallery on India Street in Little Italy.

Paintings by John Hiemstra, furniture by Joe Bedford

John Hiemstra and Joe Bedford at Coalesce Gallery, Little Italy

I’ll have to go down and shoot some more, it looks like my files from the day of the show didn’t make it from camera to computer. (You can see more of this series of paintings on the Art page of this site.)

I spent a few hours each of the July 4 weekend working on the sky paintings for this Friday’s reception at Coalesce, furniture designer Joseph Bedford’s gallery in Little Italy. Here’s a couple more pix I didn’t put up on the murals and faux blog, even if these paintings germinated in scenic painting with its faux style techniques and the ever popular sky mural as a ceiling and surround technique.

Finally got back to work on “St.George and the Dragon”, rolled up since ArtWalk 2007, over two years.

At last, its the dragon’s turn!

Here’s a quick video I made about my new show of original paintings at Joseph Bedford’s gallery and furniture shop in Little Italy on July 1 as part of the new NoLi Nights.

I started these paintings in 2007, part of a series that actually started itself in 2003, and haven’t worked on any of these paintings in over two years until now.