Millerino at the North Park Art Walk

This blog
is not really intended
to showcase the work
of young Millerino.

But what the hell,
he makes things too.


Above is the
"Birth of Venus"














This illustrates
some lines
from Marlowe's
"Hero and Leander"

"Blood-quaffing Mars, heaving the yron net,
Which limping Vulcan and his Cyclops set"





Here's
some pictures
of other things
seen at the North Park Art Walk

April's Book of Sunflowers

April Foster
is working on a book
about sunflowers.


"it has text - mostly botanical info on the sunflower
like in Audubon wildflower books
and some historical uses for the seeds and oil.

It is letterpress,
handprinted with relief images
and then some lithos.

It will be hand bound
using a raised cord binding"











"I enjoy the sunflowers because they stand as tall as people."



And I like them
because they seem to offer so much
while taking so little.

Closson's is Closed

All I could discover
about Charles Frymier
is that Clossens,
where he was a featured artist,
just closed last month.

They had stayed open for 165 years,
surviving two world wars,
the Great Depression,
and a few Great Panics before that.

But 8 years of G.W. Bush
finally did them in.

Unfortunately,
Charles has no website,
(and apparently, not even a telephone)
so it may be a few years
before we hear anything more
about him.

Nightclub Fire Memorial

Here's Larry Elig
with a maquette
for a memorial
to the 100 people killed
at a local nightclub fire.

(Here's the full story )

Don't know whether Larry got the job.
(or why he didn't use this as an opportunity
to model a hundred figures
instead of three)

We'll have to wait and see
if he gets the job.

Corn Kings and Maize Giants

Water Nymph




Pat Brutchin
came to my Labor Day
Drawing Marathon
and showed me
some pictures,
which gave me the idea
of starting a blog
(my 15th !)
to follow the wandering imaginations
of her
and everyone else
who, at some point,
studied with Dick Miller.

And perhaps,
to note some
of the connections

(for example,
the title of the above)




Spring Nude



and the carefree spirit
of a piece like this

Maize Giant


Though,
I'm not sure
that old R.J.
would have given this fellow
a pair of jockey shorts

Corn King