Thursday, August 20, 2015

Burning Heart (Wild at Heart)


Burning Heart, 40x30, acrylic on canvas, 2015


In 2013, I showed one of my burning heart paintings and a young teenage girl asked me what it meant.
"It's a symbol of passion," I explained.
"That could be good or bad," she said.

This take on that old symbol that has roots in Christianity and that can be as pop as Valentine's Day is wild and reckless. The special metallic and irridescent acrylics bounce back at the viewer. It reaches out and draws you in at the same time.

Mexican Breakfast from my Childhood


Fried Eggs over Spanish Rice with Dry Chilaquiles and Hot Pico

I remember my Mom setting aside crispy crunchy chilaquiles for me before she doused the adult version with red sauce and fresh cilantro and queso. They were like breakfast nachos with scrambled egg and fried onions, perfectly salted. I probably ate them with ketchup.
And whenever she made Sopa de Arroz for dinner with Carne Asada I knew that there would be orange rice left over for breakfast. She would fry it flat on a skillet, crack an egg over it and cover it, and that rice would brown so beautifully on the bottom.
This is a grown up version of my favorite kid's morning meals, together on one dish.

Look for World Peace



Look For World Peace
Watercolor on paper, 9x5

The idea for this painting came from a series of Peace paintings that are designed as an advertising campaign, attempting to make the idea of peace something youthful and sexy and attractive. 

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Culinary Arts are evident at Alexander's Steakhouse


Heirloom Tomatos w \Panna Cotta and frozen greens...Created during my brief but beautifully interesting stay at Alexander's Staekhouse Pasadena.