I’ve been keeping track of the mural project at Cafe Mundo here in Banker’s Hill with my iPhone and some instant real time publishing through my pages on Facebook and Twitter, so I thought I’d catch up some our progress here before heading over to for this morning’s session.
I’ve been very pleased to work with artist Jessica Siemens, who you may remember I mentored earlier this spring in marketing her excellent work via blogging and social media on the way to her first “art fair” appearance in April at Little Italy’s ArtWalk. (For more detail on that, search for articles on Jessica over on the San Diego Finishing School site.)
Anyway, we’ve been having a blast getting to paint together (rather than working on marketing paintings together:) and we’ve been accompanied off and on by my babies, Hunter (4) and Logan (2)– no, they don’t have their own websites yet– so I hope you enjoy these pictures.
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.
coliseum paintings in the loft
July 5in the studio downstairs-- thnx Jen!
almost ready to unwrap
I've been wanting to properly finish these little ones for a long time.
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.
