Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on February 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment delete
Categories: California

Painting at Ceago Vinegarden...

For a year and a half I have been painting a series at Ceago Vinegarden on Clear Lake. Completed six years ago the vineyards, gardens and winery were designed, planted and built by Jim Fetzer with the help of his son Barney, as well as a contractor and four or five workers. The buildings are Jim’s  interpretation of Mission architecture. Substantial and  beautiful they give the impression of having stood here for generations. The Mission flavor of the buildings and gardens is tempered by an imaginative but natural eclecticism that evokes memories of Provence and...
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Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on January 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment delete
Categories: California, oakland, Uncategorized

Obama on Broadway...

This is one one of my most successful downtown paintings and I owe part of its success to the election of Barack Obama. I’ve painted three pictures here. I enjoy the contrast of the modern buildings across Broadway with the old buildings which are reminiscent, as John Protopapas once remarked, of the towers of San Gimignano in Tuscany. But it’s a difficult place to work. The bus stop and BART attract large crowds. And there are a smattering of extremely disturbed people who become belligerent for no particular reason except that I’m here and...
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Posted by Anthony Holdsworth on January 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments delete
Categories: California

Black Gold Meets California Gold: Point ...

I was ready today with my camera for the hawk which passes by between three and three forty in the afternoon. Today was the first time it didn’t appear. I was planning to photograph it for my painting, a quick sketch as well. But it never appeared. Which set me to wondering whether it had caught something earlier in the day. Or maybe it’s daily swing through this neighborhood on its north-south patrol isn’t as regular as I’d assumed. I’m standing on the edge of a slope, almost a cliff. A dirt trail meanders steeply from the foreground. It is interrupted as the...
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