Prossesion Girl

In San Antonio, Texas you have market square, San Fernando Cathedral and Main Plaza all in a 10 block radius. People gather for any occasion in any of these locations, to walk the plaza or to meet someone for fun or to go shopping. Yesterday there was a procession for someone who died long ago. It was the anniversary of their loved one who had passed away.

I was inspired to do a quick drawing on paper with charcoal. The girl was caring a big Mexican flag over her shoulder and was proud of doing it. She had walked from market square to main plaza which is in front of San Fernando Cathedral. This was where they where going to honor their loved one. This was a moving moment for that family and I was moved to do this drawing.

TOMS Event at La Cantera

Have you ever heard of a company that would sell shoes and for every pair that they sell one goes to someone that has no shoes to wear? Well that is TOMS Shoes. I was part of 5 regional artists that worked on individuals' shoes that where purchased that day. It was wonderful painting on shoes. I kept my unique way of painting with Latino themes and everyone like them. This event was a hit. I had a line customers going out of the department.

Here you see the most popular ones were the Calavera of Catrinas and Catrin for dia de Los Muertos. They where fun to make.

Las Papas from fabulous Bandera Rd.

Live in living color. The potato can perform and talk. This is seeing potatoes taking and singing and trying to be humans. Your mother always said not to play with your food, but here I am playing with my food. It was funny, I saw them at the produce market and I had just had to have them. They made me think that they had to have a show on their own at the produce market. This is so bad but good. So I called them Las Papas. They are sweet potatoes that have character and are all organic... what a look! I feel that they should have their own talk show on public access. Well that is something to think about.

After the storm in West Texas 1994

Terlingua, Texas is part of West Texas in the Big Bend National Park. A place where you can see beautiful colors and morbid shapes and serenity. An inspiration of life where life is not near. The desert has a lot of life mixed in with danger to one if they are not familiar with the extreme weather patterns of this area.

This area inspired me to create this landscape called, (After the Storm in West Texas 1994). Using textures and colors that describe it's beauty is what drew me to this inspiration to paint and capture the roughness of the hot wind of a hot summer drought.

Now this painting is part of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, Border Region MHMR Conference Center. A gift by Betsy Gill of Laredo, Texas to the state for the center in South Texas.

Altar to San Judas De Tadeo 2011

This 14" x 16" painting on canvas. An altar made with gold, vines and natural fibers creating an oval frame of Saint Jude. This Saint is the patron of most lost causes.
The canvas has been dyed with natural pigments and fibers from south texas.