By Richard Baer ChauDavis in Hillcrest Walk in Art — Jun 3, 2021 Kim Ogburn, 6-3-2021 one of the financial backers for the Pandemic Summer Life Drawing. He gave until it hurt. close up Pandemic Life Drawing - museo de rbcdartAfter ArtGymSD at Escondido and SDAI there was a pandemic. I got together with Michelle Gregoire and we figured out wages for video life drawing sessions. People signed up getting a month pass by pledging $25 on my Patreon account. Michelle had donations (thank you Kim Ogburn). Between us we cov…museo de rbcdartKim is a good friend, subscriber and patron to several art causes (including me). Pandemic Life drawing is what brought us together.
Projects DarkSpace The darkspace goes all the way back to college where I did an etching on what was going on in my head. The first Darkspace was with Sherrill in Santa Barbara, the next one on Marengo where we painted a garage black and Maria built me a dark room for developing images. The third was on Jackie Dr.
Proofs Curated Proofs I used to print a proof sheet or have a whole roll printed into 4x6 pictures. Now I import into Lightroom to do basic developing and cropping where I can get an idea how to work each individual picture in a set. These are not actual proof sheets (I shredded those).
Projects A Week of ArtGymSD at Larry Caveney's 4141 Garage Gallery, 2012 Very fun and it led to things... Supercharged some of the artists participating.
Ray St / NP Nights Ray Street / North Park Nights, 2009, 2010 Ray at Night was a lot of fun for quite a while. Latter Art gave way to Beer, which is much more marketable and tastes better.