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What’s up at The Cheech!

7/25/2022

Cheech Marin (Yeah, That Cheech Marin!) finally has a place to show off his amazing art collection.
Check this out…

Frank Romero, The Arrest of the Paleteros, 1996

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture
Cheech Marin Art Collection in Riverside
Exhibition: June 18, 2022–June 18, 2023

Cheech Collects weaves a story of Cheech Marin’s efforts as a passionate collector, exploring the making of a major collection from the first works acquired through the most recent acquisitions.
This inaugural exhibition is a celebration of the foremost champion of the Chicano School of Art.
The creation of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture furthers his advocacy and will continue to shape the art world’s perceptions and understanding of Chicano art.
Marin’s efforts have brought unprecedented attention
to Chicana/o art with exhibitions of and loans from his collection to over 50 museums nationally and internationally.
The inaugural exhibition features almost 120 works from Marin’s generous gift of over 500 works to the Riverside Art Museum as well as from his personal collection.
A second iteration of the inaugural exhibition
will open in December of 2022.

"Nice Job, Homey!" -RQ

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How to Paint Anything!

7/18/2022

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"How to Paint Anything
The complete Guide to painting and refinishing”
By Hubbard H. Cobb

"So when it comes to painting...
I’m pretty much ‘old school’, and I love books!
I have many books on materials and techniques in my library, but a few are really the most useful because they are well organized and have a lot of good foundational material and are clear and to the point.
This is one of them!"

Contents:
1) paints: general information
2) enamel, clear finshes, and stains
3) specialized paints and finishes
4) brushes, rollers, paint equipment, and supplies
5) paint problems and failures
6) how to remove paint
7) how to paint and finish wood
8) how to paint masonry
9) how to paint metals
10) how to paint the outside of a house
11) how to paint the inside of a house
12) how to paint and refinish wood and concrete floors
13) how to paint and refinish furniture
14) special finishes for furniture woodwork
15) how to paint boats
16) how to paint swimming pools
17) how to paint special materials
18) how to paint anything

"I always say that if you want to be a muralist, the best foundation you can have (while you are learning to be an artist and how to draw) is to get yourself fired from several different house painter’s jobs, preferably by an ‘old-school’ craftsman or two. Learn your materials, how to carry ladders, how to match colors, how to prep, and how to avoid and fix mistakes.
I have learned valuable information from every one of these chapters, for one project or an other." -RQ

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Fun with Paint! / Pour-Painting

7/11/2022

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I recently had a visit from a good friend of mine from up-state New York, and he reminded me about a pour-painting project his fiance' worked on during her collage years. I looked up the YouTube video and there she was! Pouring her little heart out.
Nice job, Rita!

If you think this looks like fun...
Here are a few great blog-sites for some cool
Pour-Painting techniques and materials:

Jerrys Artarama

Acrylic Pouring Painting Art – 3 Acrylic Pouring Techniques & Supplies

Fluid Painting Blog:

acrylic-pour-techniques

Ken Bromley Art Supplies

9 Basic and Advanced Acrylic Pouring Techniques

Olga Soby

Pouring TIPS! Gorgeous VIOLET + TURQUOISE + GOLD ~ Acrylic Pouring

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Black is Beautiful! Part 2

7/4/2022

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Black vs Purple
As a professional artist and muralist,
I have developed a deep appreciation for the power and significance of Color.
For instance, Purple really is the most appropriate color to attribute to my Beloved Susan’s Memorial Bench, as anyone who knew her will rightly attest to!

Purple is the Royal color, and the color of Dignity,
and the color of Joy, and of Compassion,
and of Exuberance!
and... of Non-Conformity.
and
Purple is Playful! and Fun!
(and it reminds me of her Raucous Laughter!)
However...
I am beginning to realize, after many enlightening and insightful conversations with the persuasive
Superintendent of Parks, Recreation, and Community Services for the City of Pasadena,
that the color Black is not without its more positive attributes especially for a Memorial!
In addition to being the appropriate color of mourning…
Black is, after all, Beautiful!
Black represents Strength, and Courage and Justice!
Black, in all of its Elegance represents
both Defiance and Conviction!
And being the color of printers’ ink,
typewriter-ribbons, marker-pens, and pencils…
Black stands for Communication! and for
Speaking Truth to Power!
All of which Susan would be very proud to embrace in her Memorial, as she did in her life.
And so...
in the spirit of Community Values and Cooperation
(and of choosing one’s battles wisely)…
and realizing that there are many, many other
more important causes to stand for...

Such as calling out social injustice,
as when she sought to protect the informational privacy
of her JPL co-workers against intrusive
Homeland Security badging and privacy issues in 2007,
when she was instrumental in helping to instigate a lawsuit against the Federal Government.
(The lawsuit went all the way to the
United States Supreme Court!)
Or...
Her involvement and work in giving voice to the concerns of Human Trafficking Victims!
or Her concerns over the unfair over-representation and incarceration of black and brown men
and women in our penal system…
and while She was certainly not pro-abortion,
She was deeply concerned about the invasive tendencies
of our government, and our society, to legislate away
the rights of women to have dominion over their own bodies, and the same for gays and lesbians,
and all the LGBTQ! …
or her conviction that it should not be a
Death Sentence to drive while black…
or to be shot in the back for a petty crime…
and that, while guns are indeed inanimate objects...
flooding our streets with human slaughtering
weapons of mass distraction is not making our children and our public spaces any safer!
And that, indeed, Black Lives,
Just as All Lives,
really do matter!
"So with that said… I don’t think that Susan would want her Memorial tarnished by a silly little battle over mindless and insensitive bureaucratic rules in support of conformity and the stifling of creativity and free expression.

   I think we should name Susan’s new
Memorial Bench
(which has been returned to the park)

“The Susan Foster black ‘Lives Matter’ Memorial Bench!”

(It’s the Mexican Muralist in me!)
-Roberto Quintana de Foster

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...to Roberto's Blog!

  "Duit-On-Mon-Dai"

  Roberto has been pestering the ‘Marketing’ staff here at Art and Soul for some time now to get together with ‘Research and Development’ to come up with a fun way for him to share all the great work out there of all the many other talented muralists and artists he's been "influenced by" over the years. ‘Sales’ was totally against the idea! ("How could that possibly improve the bottom-line?!"). ‘Marketing’ remains split, as usual ("We need more data"). ‘R&D’ thought it might be a fun way to "show off a little", and to showcase all those great ideas they keep finding out there on the internet. ‘HR’ said it might be a good way to keep 'The Crew' distracted ("Since they are all so bored since Covid hit, and Roberto is spending more and more time in his studio working on all those silly little easel paintings").
'The Crew' said: ’'Sure, We've got nothing else going on …but only if we get to share stuff about technique, materials, and equipment." ‘Receivables’ said: "It obviously won’t make more work for us, so why not!". 'Legal' said: "No Way! You are NOT going to reveal where you steal all your ideas from!" (Although Roberto values their legal advice, He rarely listen’s to their hysterics anyway). So... here we are! Welcome to Roberto’s new blog:
  "Duit-On-Mon-Dai"
     "As the title implies, I will post once a week (on Monday, more or less). Feel free to leave a family friendly comment. Dialogue and praise is encouraged. Creativity, passion and wonder should be expected. Politics and personal grievances hopefully kept to private emails. And please… no Whining! and no sales pitches either (you can make your own damn blog for that).
   I expect to start becoming a little more savvy with all this social media stuff, but for now ‘Bookmark’ my website and check back every once in a while. I hope you will find it interesting. Don’t be too persnickety over my whimsical spelling and creative punctuations either, my Editorial Department is not what it used to be… I am seriously understaffed these days."
Peace and Love...
-Roberto Quintana, WFA

What’s up at The Cheech!

How to Paint Anything!

Fun with Paint! / Pour-Painting

Black is Beautiful! Part 2

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