Spring Creek in 2 Juried Shows

May 29 Felton, CA "Spring Creek," an image created by local artist Larry Darnell, has been chosen by the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA and the Santa Cruz Art League for their respective shows: Images of Water and Transference of Light.

The Images of Light show in Eureka, CA [5/21-6/27/10] at the Morris Graves Museum is the 24th annual California Mixed Media Competition and Exhibition open to California artists. The Transference of Light show, in Santa Cruz, CA[7/2 -8/1/10] is a competition open to artists nationwide.

"Spring Creek" is a photo-based acrylic painting style image made from an original photograph of a tributary of the South Fork of the Stanislaus River near Boards Crossing in the central Sierra Nevada. Taken in early March, the spring runoff is still brisk with the shaft of mid afternoon sunlight slanting through the pines and cedars. The original underlying digital image was filtered and processed in Photoshop to create a painterly look, and originally printed on canvas.

Larry Darnell's work brings remote natural locations to viewers who wish to share quietude, serenity and the beauty of these places. For over a decade he has been combining photography and digital tools to create images that have the feel and quality of traditional paintings and prints.

His work has appeared in Central California galleries, juried exhibitions and is owned by a number of American collectors. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Central California.

Larry Darnell website www.ldarnell.com

"Columbia Rhythm" Chosen for Marin Museum Show

The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. recently chose Larry Darnell's image "Columbia Rhythm" for the Fifth Summer National Juried Exhibition "Private Eyes: Artist Visions". The show dates are June 19 - July 18, 2010.

View "Columbia Rhythm" at Fine Art America website.

"Columbia Rhythm" was taken on an early fall morning at the Columbia Historic State Park, Columbia, California, a preserved gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The shot is of the entrance of a small cabin, its doors and walls of unpainted raw weathered wood; the uneven and time-worn sagging counterpoint to the subdued elegance and Eastern style transplanted to the raw wild gold settlement.

Larry Darnell's work brings remote natural locations to viewers who wish to share quietude, serenity and the beauty of these places. For over a decade he has been combining photography and digital tools to create images that have the feel and quality of traditional paintings and prints. "Columbia Rhythm" is part of a series of photographs of historic sites which are presented as documentary photographic images as opposed to art pieces.

His work has appeared in Central California galleries, juried exhibitions and is owned by a number of American collectors. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Central California.

Larry Darnell website www.ldarnell.com

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art at the Novato Arts Center at Hamilton Field
500 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949
415-506-0137

Contact:
Larry Darnell
1321 Lost Acre Dr
Felton, CA 95018
831 335 3929
art at ldarnell.com

Santa Cruz County Chooses Image for Collection

I was contacted by the County last week wishing to purchase a print of LAS ANIMAS CONCRETE, for their Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County. The image is from a photo and subsequent art print I made in winter of 2009. This was a crisp Santa Cruz coastal winter afternoon featuring altocumulus clouds at the Las Animas Concrete facility. I felt the image would work well as a Japanese-style print.

image at website image at Fineartamerica

From the Santa Cruz County website:

The Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County
The Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County is an archival collection of works on paper owned by the County of Santa Cruz that portrays artists' ideas, visions and perceptions of what makes this County unique. The intent of the collection is to document the spirit of the times in Santa Cruz. People, neighborhoods, landmarks, buildings, events, daily life - will be captured on paper by some of the leading artists in the County.

http://www.scparks.com/visual_chronicle.html

More new images posted

My Gallery pages are now loaded in all categories except other. I will be adding more text to images as time allows. I will continue to add new work as well.

I'm preparing for my first show open house at our home in July. More to come.

finally, new images posted on website

since my computer, that's an apple g5 dual died last summer, i've been trying to get myself reorganized, which may not be possible, but have, at any rate, finally started to populate my website with images instead of relying only on the fineartamerica site to rep my work.

so....by the end of this week there should be a whole lot of new images.

there's also a rotating hello banner on the main page.

i'll start posting stuff here again.

who will read it besides me?

who knows.

Linux - the Trial Trail

I bitched about apple. I said I was going to go HP and linux, and now I am.

I've been way busy this summer. That's another story.

But now, like the song says, 'my boyfriend's back and you're going to be in trouble'

I'm not sure how much I'm in trouble with linux and my belief I can replace what I was doing on my mac with linux, but we'll document that...

In any event I plan to bust apple's chops on not supporting me in particular and loyal apple users for decades and multi-deca-dollars.

Now Taking Norvasc for Hypertension

methylethyl2-(2-aminoethoxymethyl)-4-(2-chlorophenyl)-6- methyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate

5mg/day

There is a risk of side effects associated with Norvasc, some of which are severe. A patient experiencing a serious side effect or an allergic reaction should seek immediate emergency medical attention. An allergic reaction will result in symptoms that include facial swelling, including swelling of the lips, mouth, tongue, or throat, hives, and difficulty breathing. Other serious side effects which require emergency medical care include symptoms such as chest pain, slow heart beat, fast heart beat, chest pain, sever dizziness, fainting, psychosis, jaundice, or swelling of the legs and ankles.