Janas Durkee, a local artist from Indiana, presents her series, The American Dream in portraits, which is influenced by hard-working people such as farmers. The artist told us about her inspirational subjects: “I have used that work as research for my paintings. It is here that I find myself—with the stories of others in my […]
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Featured Artist: Doug Bragdon
We found local Doug Bragdon on Westcliff one afternoon, painting a live seascape onto a 100 x 60 feet sheet of canvas. He was kind enough to share some more of his art with us here at Local Santa Cruz! Doug Bragdon has over one hundred paintings mounted in one of the UCSC Provost Houses for […]
Process Shot: Somewhere in Santa Cruz
I’m working on a few different projects right now, most of which are going relatively well, but I’m especially excited about my newest series of detailed line illustrations. I haven’t decided on a name quite yet, but the series is inspired directly by Santa Cruz homes, gardens, people, and memories in general. I will be […]
Illustration: Symbols
During this last Spring quarter at UC Santa Cruz, I had the pleasure of taking Stacy Kamehiro’s class, Art of the Body in Oceania, a course about visual culture phenomena in Polynesian island areas. Before this class, whenever I had heard the term, “tribal tattoo,” all I could think about were sunburned, sweaty lines […]
