Thursday, December 17, 2009

I guess I was right this time


I was so right with my Black Tie playboy window

It never ceases to amaze me how the collective consciousness works.
Here's the proof an article in the Times..Mad Men and 60s slick..interfaces perfectly with Hugh Hefner,Playboy and my Black Tie Christmas window...I guess I haven't lost my touch yet. Hit the link and read this

Monday, December 14, 2009

Getting back to the roots





As you have all figured out by now retail has not been good of late. Here I am at the top of my career and they pulled the rug out from under me. I am not saying that work has disappeared completely, but just a year ago everything was fine....now it's not....I still have design work on the board and there are clients endeavoring to update and even a few brave souls attempting to open new stores, so that's a good sign, but I think it will take a very long time to return to pre-recession numbers. As they say "Every cloud has a blah blah", and in order for me to make up for the decline in work I have decided to return to my roots. Once upon a time I was an "artist", yes I attended art school and yes I had all the visions of Paris skylights and New York lofts, somewhere along the way I got sidetracked, it's called eating, so retail display was the closest I could get to a creative career and receive payment. Gone were all the fantasies of Warholian chic . So...here it is 40 years later and I am back to where it all started, making art. Painting and drawing has always remained a part of my life, but as a vacation pastime, a refuge from the retail world. After a barrage of encouragement from friends and family I have applied myself to art with a vengeance..."Pet Portraiture" is due mainly to my sisters menagerie, horses, dogs, injured birds and anything else that wander on to the property. Because of the lack of funds, I deemed it an art as gift year. I thought rather than bore my sister with still another landscape of Cape Cod, I would paint portraits of all her animals, the results were better than I expected. The response has been very postitive....TAA..DAA!! I am an artist again... so here it is... My first promo piece. Click on ad to enlarge