This is some of what I saw today:

Nice dose of rain today.  This afternoon I attended my friend Sojourner Kincade-Rolle’s induction ceremony as Santa Barbara’s Poet Laurette at City Hall. On the way out of the building I noticed that there was an exhibition of Ray Strong paintings including these two gems… two color charts that Ray painted:

The rain stopped and I was able to reopen my studio.

Here are a few images that I recorded today:

Working in the studio…

making certain that the work measures up…

and a detail of a painting I’m working on.

One of my recent projects… do you think it’s safe to let this character out in public? What do you think?