An accounting of what I have experienced, learned, and still hope to learn from my years as a physician and artist, and as a member of a large extended Italian-American family.
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One of my objectives for the trip to Italy this May is to do as much on the spot drawing and sketching as I can, focusing primarily on the architecture and street scenes. Since my drawing skills have been somewhat neglected over the past several years...
Mixed Media #8...24x24"
I'm definitely moving up in the world...at least up from 12x24 to 24x24"! That is the size of the latest in this series of fun paintings.
Looking around the studio for a "failed painting" to sacrifice to the art gods my eyes came to rest on this forlorn piece...one of the last of my windows series from 2 and 3 years ago. One look at it and I knew I found my sacrificial canvas.
Windows...
San Diego coast...photo by Harvey Tilker
It was in the mid to late seventies, after five years of bliss in my internal medicine practice when I first became aware of a growing discomfort in my life. The forces that emerged to direct a tumultuous...