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Commemorative plate.

My loose line drawing of steep cliffs peppered with palm trees and houses above a beach spilling into the sea: an original silkscreened monoprint in wild swirls and streaks of color and crisp lines on mint green recycled paper, 8x10"

It's tropical yet urban -- the drawing was inspired by my belovedly whacko City of Los Angeles, yet it could just as easily be the Mediterranean or Brazil.

I adore the tangly, janky mishmash of palatial houses and camp cottages and electrical poles and street signs all wound around poplar trees and palms and evergreens with vines all roiling around and tumbling over dry rocks and sandy soil to teeter last-minute over the rolling rollicky surf.

I printed these with fine artist's acrylic paint instead of ink. Each one is unique because I apply new fresh swirls of new colors then every few minutes I wash out the screen and start over. This technique is expensive, inefficient, messy and unpredictable -- the opposite of proper screenprinting -- but it's just so much fun.

Over this poetic and painterly background, I printed my improvisational and irreverent sketch of a coastal urban landscape.

These assured, oddball screenprints perfectly capture the fine details of my helter-skelter line drawing. Every skip of the ink, every flourish and flip of the line is expressed... and contrasted against the creamy, dreamy background colors which suggest landscapes of their own.

They have something in common with retro 1960's wall decor. They're reminiscient of UPA cartoons, Science Fiction paperback book covers, and String Art. They'd be comfortable in a Mexican restaurant, a psychiatrist's office, or upscale waiting room... that I might have seen in a dream.

My loose line drawing of steep cliffs peppered with palm trees and houses above a beach spilling into the sea: an original silkscreened monoprint in wild swirls and streaks of color and crisp lines on mint green recycled paper, 8x10"

It's tropical yet urban -- the drawing was inspired by my belovedly whacko City of Los Angeles, yet it could just as easily be the Mediterranean or Brazil.

I adore the tangly, janky mishmash of palatial houses and camp cottages and electrical poles and street signs all wound around poplar trees and palms and evergreens with vines all roiling around and tumbling over dry rocks and sandy soil to teeter last-minute over the rolling rollicky surf.

I printed these with fine artist's acrylic paint instead of ink. Each one is unique because I apply new fresh swirls of new colors then every few minutes I wash out the screen and start over. This technique is expensive, inefficient, messy and unpredictable -- the opposite of proper screenprinting -- but it's just so much fun.

Over this poetic and painterly background, I printed my improvisational and irreverent sketch of a coastal urban landscape.

These assured, oddball screenprints perfectly capture the fine details of my helter-skelter line drawing. Every skip of the ink, every flourish and flip of the line is expressed... and contrasted against the creamy, dreamy background colors which suggest landscapes of their own.

They have something in common with retro 1960's wall decor. They're reminiscient of UPA cartoons, Science Fiction paperback book covers, and String Art. They'd be comfortable in a Mexican restaurant, a psychiatrist's office, or upscale waiting room... that I might have seen in a dream.

My loose line drawing of steep cliffs peppered with palm trees and houses above a beach spilling into the sea: an original silkscreened monoprint in wild swirls and streaks of color and crisp lines on mint green recycled paper, 8x10"

It's tropical yet urban -- the drawing was inspired by my belovedly whacko City of Los Angeles, yet it could just as easily be the Mediterranean or Brazil.

I adore the tangly, janky mishmash of palatial houses and camp cottages and electrical poles and street signs all wound around poplar trees and palms and evergreens with vines all roiling around and tumbling over dry rocks and sandy soil to teeter last-minute over the rolling rollicky surf.

I printed these with fine artist's acrylic paint instead of ink. Each one is unique because I apply new fresh swirls of new colors then every few minutes I wash out the screen and start over. This technique is expensive, inefficient, messy and unpredictable -- the opposite of proper screenprinting -- but it's just so much fun.

Over this poetic and painterly background, I printed my improvisational and irreverent sketch of a coastal urban landscape.

These assured, oddball screenprints perfectly capture the fine details of my helter-skelter line drawing. Every skip of the ink, every flourish and flip of the line is expressed... and contrasted against the creamy, dreamy background colors which suggest landscapes of their own.

They have something in common with retro 1960's wall decor. They're reminiscient of UPA cartoons, Science Fiction paperback book covers, and String Art. They'd be comfortable in a Mexican restaurant, a psychiatrist's office, or upscale waiting room... that I might have seen in a dream.

My loose line drawing of steep cliffs peppered with palm trees and houses above a beach spilling into the sea: an original silkscreened monoprint in wild swirls and streaks of color and crisp lines on mint green recycled paper, 8x10"

It's tropical yet urban -- the drawing was inspired by my belovedly whacko City of Los Angeles, yet it could just as easily be the Mediterranean or Brazil.

I adore the tangly, janky mishmash of palatial houses and camp cottages and electrical poles and street signs all wound around poplar trees and palms and evergreens with vines all roiling around and tumbling over dry rocks and sandy soil to teeter last-minute over the rolling rollicky surf.

I printed these with fine artist's acrylic paint instead of ink. Each one is unique because I apply new fresh swirls of new colors then every few minutes I wash out the screen and start over. This technique is expensive, inefficient, messy and unpredictable -- the opposite of proper screenprinting -- but it's just so much fun.

Over this poetic and painterly background, I printed my improvisational and irreverent sketch of a coastal urban landscape.

These assured, oddball screenprints perfectly capture the fine details of my helter-skelter line drawing. Every skip of the ink, every flourish and flip of the line is expressed... and contrasted against the creamy, dreamy background colors which suggest landscapes of their own.

They have something in common with retro 1960's wall decor. They're reminiscient of UPA cartoons, Science Fiction paperback book covers, and String Art. They'd be comfortable in a Mexican restaurant, a psychiatrist's office, or upscale waiting room... that I might have seen in a dream.