Mark Wood

Napa Memories

2010-07-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

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Napa in the 50's and 60's was much different than today. I remember when cows outnumbered wineries. There were about a dozens or so wineries back then, now there are hundreds. My playground were the rolling hills behind our neighborhood. We hiked, made forts in the weeds and had dirt clod battles, and made treehouse lookouts.

These paintings are the first in a series I plan to do that bring back some of those childhood memories of the Napa Valley and surrounding areas.

Bye Henry

2010-04-12T16:26:00.001-07:00

These painting were inspired by the recent passing of Henry Fukuhara. He inspired many artists and will be greatly missed. I referred to a photo I had taken of him while leaving my studio. The style is my attempt to do the painting in a similar style as Henry's.

Read Paper, Red Bow Tie

2010-01-18T20:46:00.000-08:00

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On a visit to Huntington Library, I saw this elderly man reading the paper. I was attracted to his white suit and red bow tie. After completing the painting I took it to my art clubs monthly meeting. We encourage members to bring recently completed paintings to share with the group each month. After the meeting a member came up and said he thought the person in the painting was a doctor friend of his. The next morning I received a call from a doctor who said, "I hear you did a painting of me, I'd like to see it." I scheduled a time to meet him at his office to show him the painting. The painting was a big hit with his co-workers. The only negative comment was that they wished I hadn't made him bald. I said I had a camera with me and if he was interested I could take his picture and reworked the painting to get more of a likeness. He was a nice gentleman and visited with me for a while. I came to find out his wife had been active in plein air painting and that he had an appreciation for art and was a collector. He asked if I was going to take his picture or not, so I did. After reworking the painting, I called to schedule a time for him to review the changes, he asked that I change the white shoes to brown before coming back, so I did. He was pleased with the final revisions and purchased the painting.

Read Paper, Red Bow Tie / Acrylic / 23"x29"

Wave Goodbye

2010-01-18T20:28:00.000-08:00

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Had to wave goodbye to 'Wave Goodbye' which recently sold. While on a bike ride with a group of our friends and their kids, we stopped at a beach in San Pedro. Several of the kids in our group thought it would be fun to wade out to the breakers. They were surprised by the size of the waves crashing into the breaker. When I saw their reaction to the waves, I came up with the title for this painting, before it was painted.

This has been an award winner. 1st Place, San Gabriel Fine Arts Association; 3rd Place, Mid-Valley Art League; Juried into a Laguna Beach exhibition at Southern California Arts Association.

Wave Goodbye / Oil on Canvas Board / 9"x 12"

ArtTees

2009-10-28T23:22:00.000-07:00

Thought it would be fun to create some art related t-shirts to let everyone know you are an artist, and proud of it. These are 2 of several designs. ARTisWORK, no matter how much we enjoy creating it. And when you visit my studio, you are entering the "ChromaZone".
Check them out at: skreened.com/arttees

View from Above

2009-08-24T12:49:00.000-07:00

While traveling down Highway 1 with my daughter Tracy, we pulled off the road and saw this beautiful view from above. The photo was so dramatic that I was concerned a painting might not capture the feeling, but I'm happy with the results. This painting has been juried into the 85th Pasadena Society of Artists Exhibit that will be at VIVA Gallery March 17 through April 3, 2010.

View from Above / Acrylic / 17"x 23"

4 of a Kind

2009-05-10T20:54:00.001-07:00

This is what happens when you enjoy painting pears and attend weekly figure drawing sessions. You (or maybe just me) start to see similarities. And it is my duty to point them out. Sometimes it takes the viewer a little while to also see the similarities and then they can't wait to show someone else. It brings a little grin to those who see it, which makes me smile too.

It has been an award winner; First Prize in the Southern California Artists Association juried exhibition in Laguna, an Honorable Mention in the Pasadena Society of Artists, Holiday Exhibition at VIVA gallery, and most recently a First Prize (acrylic category) in the Pomona Valley Art Association's 28th Annual Open Juried Show.

4 of a Kind / Acrylic / 12x29 – 8x20 Archival Prints are available for purchase

Morning Stretch

2009-05-07T17:33:00.000-07:00

This was a fun exercise. I started with an ink drawing I had done from a 5 minute pose at a past figure session. The idea was to create a painting that retained the spontaneity and abstract quality of the ink drawing. The danger is that the drawing may be preferred over the painting. Oh well. 16x20 Acrylic on Paper.

articulate art 2009

2009-04-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

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It was time to reprint 'articulate art' so I took the opportunity to update some of the images before reprinting.

Bottoms Up

2009-04-29T18:24:00.000-07:00

This painting, 'Bottoms Up', was exhibited this past weekend in the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association Spring Show. It received a 3rd Place award in their structural/mechanical category. It is 8x10, acrylic on canvas.

Metro Red

2009-04-23T12:42:00.000-07:00

The first painting of this car was a fun experience. I was a bit sad to see it disappear so quickly so I thought I'd take another shot at it. Although it's the same subject matter as Metropolitan Red, it has a different look and feel. This is acrylic on a 9x12 canvas.

Metropolitan Red

2009-04-23T12:16:00.000-07:00

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I saw this car parked in South Pasadena. It reminded me of growing up in Napa in the 60's. I'd been thinking of doing a series of urban scenes and this looked like a great subject matter to start with. It is an 8x10 acrylic on canvas. The silver frame worked perfect. It sold the first time it was exhibited. It recently received a 3rd Place Award at the Mid-Valley Arts League 56th Anniversary Exhibition and has been juried into the Pasadena Society of Artists 84th Annual Exhibition at VIVA Gallery, April 29 to May 16, 2009.

2009-04-23T11:38:00.000-07:00

An artist friend of mine wearing her favorite hat looked like a perfect subject matter that matches my colorful acrylic painting style. I was excited this painting received Best of Show this month in Mid-Valley Arts League 56th Anniversary Show.

articulate art

2009-04-22T22:14:00.000-07:00

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I had the unique opportunity to have access to live models 4x's a week while running Fine Artists Factory. In 2003 I began doing life drawings, basically circles and cylinders. After a couple years the circles and cylinders tuned into drawings of almost recognizable people. The charcoal drawings continued to improve but I became impatient with the academic looking result. I wanted to paint. So one day during a 3 hour session I took out old used hand-me-down acyrlics and a large sheet of canvas paper and began painting. The first attempt met with success which can be seen on Page 4 of 'articulate art'. I began to really have fun. I felt like a painter. It was the first time I had created a body of work that looked like the same artist had created them. I was excited to show the work as a group and came up with the idea of interviewing myself, in a mock interview. I created 'articulate art' as a format to feature the new direction and have some tongue-in-cheek fun presenting it. The brochure has received a graphic design award and to-date 3 of the featured pieces have sold. Two of the pieces that have yet to sell have been juried into several exhibitions. Enjoy!

Studio2310 Open House

2009-04-22T16:59:00.000-07:00

Several artists friends and myself got together a little over a year ago and started Studio2310. It is a shared workspace. This card is announcing our Second Open House.

Avalon Harbor, Catalina Island

2009-04-22T15:42:00.000-07:00

These are paintings created from photos taken while on a 3 day trip to Catalina Island. The goal was to give the feeling of the location rather than recording a realistic representation. (above, 24x24, below 23x30, acrylic)

They're Apples

2009-04-21T17:13:00.000-07:00

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This was one of the first watercolors I was happy with. It was done rather quickly. It has a feeling of spontaneity that I like. It is easy to overwork a watercolor. When I first started taking watercolor classes I was always eager to show them to my wife. Her response was usually, "That's nice honey, what is it?" The original title was, 'They're Apples, Damn It', but I decided to shorten it to, 'They're Apples'.