Art. Old.

I realize that the art section of the old Rants and Recipes has fallen even further back than the Recipes section. So it goes, and so it will go for a few days.

However, you can hear me yap about Fra Angelico (John da Fiesole, Beato Angelico) on August 15 at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach, San Francisco.

What am I going to say? Beats me. I have a couple of ideas, and we will see which one wins.

Meanwhile, in my own art we are seeing a period of drawings, drawings, drawings, and not enough paintings, paintings, paintings. That must change.

Color. Me like color.

I want to do encaustic, but the idea of working with heat in this weather thrills me about as much as standing over a hot stove and making a hearty beef stew.

So, it will probably be watercolor and oil. Not that the two can ever mix or anything.

Gotta go. Tomorrow I might have students eager to brave record-setting heat for a drawing field trip to one of the hottest, least-shaded parts of the Bay Area. I hope they are not as crazy as that, though. If they are, then, well, so am I!

Let me Crazy!