Our family watercolor exhibit is having a good stay at the Healdsburg Senior Center, through Mother’s Day, May 14, 2017. My paintings, my brother’s paintings, and our dad’s work, which inspired both Ron and I. If you’re headed to the Sonoma Wine Country, stop by the center and take a look at our show. (The center isn’t open on weekends, alas.) Or come to the artists’ reception, Friday, March 24, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Hope to see you there! 133 Matheson St., Healdsburg — just off the plaza.

MIMIXSIX won a Second Place award ($100 cash prize) at the 2016 Marin County Fair’s fine art and photography exhibit. Go me! Also shown is my other accepted entry, Canyon Song, which was included in (and sold at) the Riverfront Art Gallery’s juried show earlier this year.

Starting with tonight’s Art Walk, I’ll be selling art and studio furnishings until I move out of my studio at the end of June.

Please stop by for some great values on matted and framed digital abstract prints, 50% off! Also for sale: Winsor&Newton floor easel, Mabef wood print rack, Richeson canvas print racks, Clear Displays acrylic tabletop print rack, 8-ft long and low bookcase, chairs, lots of office supplies, paper, storage, acrylic display stands . . . the mind boggles!

Sale dates and hours:
Friday, June 10 — 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 11 — 1 to 4 p.m

Other dates and time to be established after this weekend. Please call me at 415.223.3946 for appointment.

Studio 9 at Art Works Downtown, south side of Fourth Street between C and D Sts., San Rafael, California

Nice remark from the editor of the Riverfront Art Gallery’s RAGSheet newsletter about one of my two accepted entries in their annual juried photography show. This is Petaluma’s preeminent gallery, downtown on the river, and they have receptions every second Saturday. See my calendar for details of the venue. My two digital images are Canyon Song (16″x24″ print on aluminum) and Mare Island Mix (18″x24″ print on canvas, float-mounted and framed).

Mare Island Mix

Canyon Song

On the horizon, a family show of watercolors by me, my brother Ron, and our dad, Ronald E. Bean. Beautiful and affordable original paintings on exhibit for three weeks only, in the gallery downstairs from my studio at Art Works Downtown. Ron and I often went out sketching with our dad, whose talent and love of watercolors inspired us both. Hope you can come to the opening reception on Friday, February 12!

And in case you were wondering about that quote: it’s something we three used to say a lot, paraphrasing legendary Chicago Cub Ernie Banks who said, “It’s a beautiful day for a ball game. Let’s play two.”

More details on our Facebook event page.

Fresh out of the studio are some colorful collages — 8″ sq., 6″ sq., and 4″ sq., on cradled panels — nice sizes and nice prices for the holiday gift-giving season. In addition to the original pieces, giclée prints and notecards will be available by Thanksgiving.

Here’s one, Crazy Moonrise. See more new collages here. Thanks for visiting my site!

Crazy Moonrise; mixed media collage on cradled panel, 8″ sq.; 2015

Christmas in July — all holiday cards on sale — at my studio this weekend only! Regularly 3.50, now 2.00 each. 

Happy to discover one of my pieces at the Marin County Fair fine art exhibit won an award! “Far More Blue” (shown here next to its companion “Unsquare Dance”) won a special award and gift certificate from Perry’s art store. The exhibit is as fabulous and massive as ever. Hope you can visit the fair!

San Rafael’s Italian Street Painting Festival started in 1994. I participated for six years, 1995 to 2000, and often had my brother Ron and my dad Ron helping me. My dad last participated in 1998 at age 90. I hope I’m never persuaded to draw on pavement when (if) I’m that age, good grief! But he enjoyed it and it was wonderful to have his good humor, enthusiasm, and talent with us. My brother and I recreated one of our dad’s watercolors for the 2000 festival. Below are snaps from the 1998, 1999, and 2000 festivals.