additional yosemite images including the golden aspens are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathrynarnold/sets/72157622648095540/

yosemite creek, fall , Oct 18, 2009, kathryn arnold
Last weekend did 24 hours in yosemite. Caught the aspens changing. I am posting photos on flickr soon. It was like this – fairy hunting. Seeing a glistening yellow in the woods, following it with my camera and shooting – then in the distance another one and so on. deeper and deeper into the woods. Just around crane flat off of 120 the whole forest floor is filled with aspens. magical for real.
I am back! Returning to the regular articles and hope to get a ton done during my open studio this coming weekend. I would love to see and/or meet you!
location SOMA, just above California Carpet
301 8th street, #245, SF, CA 94103
Ring buzzer for sky4u0, i think it is #19. I will answer and buzz you in.
for more info please email me from my website listed below.
Also, keep in mind I have a painting in an auction at root division – the actual auction is this Th night, I will be there around 7:30-8 PM. They are a great organization and your bids promote the arts in san francisco.
more info:
http://kathrynarnold.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/art-auction-at-root-division-contribution-of-a-small-painting/
I hope if you are in san francisco you are able to come by. I have arranged a number of my large black and white collage on paper group, a number of small oils, some digital prints (original computer artwork), some fine art prints, and a number of my larger oil on canvas paintings and monoprint(s).
Here is my website for previews:
http://www.kathrynarnold.com

Fiona's Sweetshoppe, English chocolates and candies, October 9, 2009

Fiona's Sweetshoppe, English chocolates and candies, October 9, 2009

Fiona's sign, October 9, 2009
About this work:
This work is from a group of works I did during the fall, winter and early Spring of 2009. In this set I used a more limited palette and like nature in the spring, allowed the forms to apparently emerge. The idea of “pieces” gives the sense that these are part or the beginnings of the new. Wallace Stevens poem “13 blackbirds” gives me the titles for this series of works.

kathryn arnold, 2009, at the sight of blackbirds flying in a green light (Wallace Stevens) oil/canvas, 16 x 16
This is the second painting that is currently on view right now in San francisco. It is at the Open Studios Exhibtion at SoMarts. SF is divided and grouped into neighborhoods and then each group has a weekend. This is a good time to visit the studio which will be open Oct 24 and 25 from 11-5.
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony ;
Would cry out sharply
(-Wallace Stevens)
16″ x 16″ oil on canvas
around 18 x 18″ with frame
This is info on the exhibtion: The SF Open Studios Exhibition features over 400 artworks from different Premier Artists, hung salon-style by geographic location. The Exhibition hosts SF Open Studios-related publicity and fundraising events, such as:
Private Preview Gala, Saturday, October 3, 2009 (ticketed event)
Exhibition Opening Reception, Sunday, October 4, 2009 (free event)
The SF Open Studios Exhibition will be open to the public Wednesdays through Sundays from October 7, 2009 through October 25, 2009. Gallery hours are 12pm to 4pm, Wednesday-Friday and 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday.
ArtSpan ( http://artspan.org/open_studios.php)
934 Brannan Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: (415) 861-9838
E-mail: info@artspan.org
This week (probably Friday) I plan to go over again to Paule Anglim Gallery which holds group exhibition of Beat Generation artists work (on view currently). My goal is to take some informal photographs and gather information for my new and still developing American Art course. These are the artists on exhibit: Title of exhibtion: Sight Vision Revisited, Artists: Bruce Conner ,Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Jess. The exhibtion is excellent and I look forward to my trip number 2. This is the press release from gallery website: Sight Vision Revisited September 8, 2009 – October 10, 2009″As a complement to its Bruce Conner exhibition, Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present a group of selected works by his friends and contemporaries in its Gallery II. Over the past 20 years the gallery has mounted the Sight Vision series of group shows. Featuring works by Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Jess and others, the Sight Vision exhibitions focused on the spirit and special rapport of these California artists. Later to be known as ‘Beat Generation Artists’, they shared San Francisco houses, exhibition spaces and a bohemian underground of cross-pollinated ideas with writers, poets and musicians. New practices of fabrication and repurposing of thrown away materials characterized the work.

Image from Paule Anglim Gallery webiste - press release image
Hi everyone – what have i been up to? Of course teaching – love- plus placing some works in an auction and one will be in an upcoming exhibtion.
So this is the first work:
” I was of three minds > Like a tree > In which there are three blackbirds” (Wallace Stevens) from 13 Blackbirds set, #2
Artist:
Kathryn Arnold
Size:
18.5″ x 18.5″ with frame, without frame 16″ x 16″, to sell with frame
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2009

kathryn arnold, i was of 3 minds like a tree in which there are 3 blackbirds, from wallace stevens
October 2009 Second Saturday
8TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION Preview
Saturday, October 10, 2009
[More Info]
8TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION
Thursday, October 22, 2009
SAVE THE DATE for an evening of good company, friendly competition, and a chance to support artists & arts education in San Francisco
[More Info]
http://www.rootdivision.org/events.html
A week ago weekend after touring Friday evening galleries I walked by this on my return to my studio. The pastel colors in sky and building was most cool.

Pastel Building, Pastel Sky #3, kathryn arnold, san francisco September 11, 2009 evening

Pastel Building, Pastel Sky #1, kathryn arnold, san francisco September 11, 2009 evening

Pastel Building, Pastel Sky #2, Kathryn Arnold, September 11, 2009 evening in San Francisco