Check out the gallery for more works!

The season is starting again! My six-week session classes at the Huntington Beach Art Center are about to begin. Here’s the schedule:

Drawing for Tiny Tots starts Wednesday, April 11, 3-4 p.m.

Experimental Art for Teens starts Wednesday, April 11, 4-5:30 p.m.

Contemporary Art Methods Workshop starts Saturday, April 14, 4:30-6 p.m.

For registration info, please visit the Sands online or call the HBAC at 714.374.1650.

I also teach year round classes at Kim Art School in Cerritos and the Boys and Girls Club of Westminster. My students at the Boys and Girls Club created these lovely house drawings. Such wonderful artists!

I would offer you a place to sit down, but it’s just not possible right now. Here are some things I’m working on…**Notice how even the stuffed animal (Jill) in the upper left corner is pinned behind a painting. Painting is stressful and sometimes dangerous for those who get in the way.

And a detail of one:

I designed all new packaging for my magnet sets, with sets of five and two to satisfy people’s varying needs of magnetism.

If you’re around Long Beach, you can find my magnet sets at Blue Windows on 2nd St. Also, take a look at my shop at Etsy.

Trees are a sweet surrender. I like things that still have their instincts, like animals and plants. I guess pretty much everything else with consciousness is too busy with Tivo or their Blackberry. But plants and animals are busy being alive. And cleaning eachothers fur. And dodging cars. And making nests anywhere that remotely looks hospitable.

I have a baby bird on my balcony right now and it’s the sweetest little thing. I thought its parents ditched it, so I called social services for birds, and before I could hang up the phone, mom and dad showed up like a swat team. They are good parents after all.

New work or work in progress…

This will be my new packaging for the magnets. Everyone asks astonishingly, “Are you selling that many?” My answer is no. But packaging is important, even for things that don’t sell.

Another thing, check out my new gallery page I added for 2007. New work will be added regularly.