Monotype Morning (3 Sept)

 You know I'm having a proper holiday weekend when I can visit art AND make some!

Upright (2 Sept)

 Paddling out from Crane Cove.

Preserving the facade, but only a little (2 Sept)

 Somehow, this two story box is what is left of the historic building.  It's nice.  It's just not much.

Iridescent Glass Reflections (2 Sept)

 

100 The Embarcadero (1 Sept)

 

D.C. Transit (streetcar with palm trees)(1 Sept)

 Always a favorite livery. Hello, Bay Bridge in the background!

Monitor bank (1 Sept)

 It looms well, doesn't it?

Detail:

Front view with the actual art:

Scene from a gallery (1 Sept)

Liz Larner's Wrapped Corner, Calida Rawles High Tide, Heavy Armor (facing us in the distance), and... oh, that name of the wonderful hanging piece is escaping me.

I just missed composing this with a pointing hand from a gallery guard.

The art is good, but the projectors make me swoon (1 Sept)

 Oooooooooooooooh.

Best room (1 September)

I didn't know the work of Tatsuo Miyajima (tatsuomiyajima.com/) previously, but this is a fantastic introduction.

The piece is called Counter Line.

Pink Window (1 Sept)

 New color, familiar view. Thanks always to Snøhetta for designing stimulating angles.

Frank Bowling at SFMoMA (1 Sept)

I enjoyed this show, Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975 (sfmoma.org) and recommend it for abstract painting fans.

SFMoMA painting by Alma Thomas (1 Sept)

Alma Thomas (Wikipedia link) was born in 1891, and still managed to paint such a remarkably contemporary piece in the 1970s.  She is possibly the first woman, and first African-American woman, to receive a bachelor of arts degree in fine art in the U.S.  

I really like this piece.  (I make monotype prints, and intentionally seek out some patterns like this when rolling paint out on my printing plate, so I have a direct connection to these forms.). It is delightful.

Patina worth color envy (31 August)

 I'm not admitting that I'm looking for excuses to buy more paint.  But also: I have or can mix all of these.

Backlit iceplant is my favorite kind of iceplant (29 August)

 The GLOW!

Color touch (26 August)

 

Yerba Buena and Moscone Mural (26 August)

 CalTrans and the SF Municipal Transit agency funded this mural, visible from the new Yerba Buena metro station, but I haven't found credit for the artists online yet. 

Quite a sky (20 August)

 

Water through water (8 August)

 

I enjoy looking through wet windows more than better-adjusted people do.

Farmer's Market Bounty (29 July)

 It's so good to live in California...