Pizza Zeitgeist

Found in Williamsburg yesterday. Painting pizza is all the rage, now.

One shot?

It's unusual that I make a painting in "one shot." The painting usually accrues over several different sessions in the studio. The big ones sometimes take a couple of years to complete nowadays. But this new pizza painting (on the right) just might be fully cooked after just one shot. That's one dividend of working in a series. There seems to be an infinite number of ways to serve up this form, so why not just let this one be and start a fresh one?

Scallop Pizza

Essence

Frank Lloyd Wright

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/arts/design/frank-lloyd-wright-house-in-phoenix-faces-bulldozers.html?_r=1&

When I was in eighth grade, I decided to be an architect when I grew up. I was enamored of Frank Lloyd Wright, and I wanted to be Howard Roark. Today I learned about this "secret" Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix that was slated for demolition. It boggles my mind that there would be more FLW houses on the earth than rich people who would like to spend their money preserving and living in such fantastical, landmark domiciles. If I had loads of money, I think I would very much enjoy the hobby of collecting one-of-a-kind mid-century homes by important architects. It's hard to believe that this house, built for his son David, was "unknown" until recently. What a wonderful surprise. I hope it will not be torn down to make room for more strip malls.

New Favorite Pizza

I think this new slice in progress is my current fave.
"Lilly Pizza"

Cooperation

"Pink Kermit"
Oona & Anna

Studio snapshots

Blind

Stepford Weave (in progress) and Blind

Finshsed Attic, Dream Catcher and some Pizza in progress

Finsihed Attic, detail

Dream Catcher

Dream Catcher, detail

Pizza paintings

There's more what that came from...

 

These markers are not light-fast!  Do I care? I dunno.  The fading looks kinda cool... is there a spray I can put on there to arrest the process?