Resurrection
An oak tree in the garden.
Dimensions: 11 x 11 inches (image), 13 x 13 inches (sheet), 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 x 1 1/8 inches (framed)
An oak tree in the garden.
Dimensions: 11 x 11 inches (image), 13 x 13 inches (sheet), 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 x 1 1/8 inches (framed)
The ground or field upon which we appear.
My thoughts are a troop of monkeys swingin’ through the trees most days — not always panicked, sometimes just having some fun. This day I thought all was lost, that this drawing was a disaster, and I was a failure. It was only through some fluke that a photograph was made.
Not everybody responds to it, and the most surprising people are intrigued. I feel joy and a certain awe every time that happens.
Both original artwork and small batch reproductions in handmade basswood frames may be seen by appointment in Buellton, California.
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Original artworks are graphite, watercolor, or color pencil on paper. Edition are prints produced in house or at Candela Fine Art Printing in Oakland, California.
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More IMAGES.
I’ve had these images in a folder since 2011. May they imbue my work with blueness. May I live to see them all in person.
This little panel is part of a larger altarpiece presumably commissioned by Holy Mother Church as my dad and uncle would say. My friend Tom cracked, “I told you kids not to use that plate,” when he saw it. A poem by Dante inspired the image. It lives at the Met, and there is a lot of cool information about it on the website, linked below.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458971
It’s a big deal that the Louvre commissioned a living artist to create this fresco for the ceiling of the Salle des Bronzes. You will appreciate the article linked below if you are curious about what it all means. Greek sculpture and modernist painting, a sky of spheres and ancient Greek. Very romantic.
http://www.diptyqueparis-memento.com/en/the-antic-sky-of-cy-twombly/
Painted the year I was born. A holy sight, cathedral bars of light. At MOCA Los Angeles.
https://www.moca.org/collection/work/no-61-rust-and-blue-brown-blue-brown-on-blue
So erotic I can hardly bear it. Ecstasy! At the Getty Center in Los Angeles most of the time.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/750/edvard-munch-starry-night-norwegian-1893/
And William Blake, bringing it all back home with the Old Testament at the Morgan Library in New York City. An illustration for the Book of Job.
https://www.themorgan.org/collection/drawings/84883
I don’t know what else to say about this except that it is me, doing what I do. It’s sort of like having one’s nose in a book.
We see three drawings by Annie Yakutis up now at Lo-Fi Wines in Los Alamos, CA. From left to right, first moon, shoreline, tree of life. You can’t hang out because there’s no tasting for now, but somebody interesting is there on weekends from noon to five. You can buy wine and art in person, masks required.
Here is a pencil drawing of an old walnut grove out Santa Rosa Road as seen from a speeding car.
This image faces north toward space launch complexes at Vandenberg AFB. Thanks to Brad Boca and Candela Fine Art Printing in Oakland, CA, I will be offering panoramic views of California in small, medium, and large formats very soon!
The tasting room in Los Alamos where my work can be seen in person, Lo-Fi Wines, opened for two weekends. It was sweet, and short. We had just enough time to refresh everything and make a sale. Now they hang in solitude once more, waiting for a time when one need not risk one’s health to hang out with interesting strangers, listen to records, and rest one’s eyes on something beautiful while wine tasting.
Here is a virtual peek for the time being. Prices are available upon request. Shipping to the US and Canada is available. Thank you!
Rohini Devasher. http://project88.in/art-fair-details/3676064 is an amateur astronomer, photographer and printmaker who also makes exquisite drawings. Her work awakens a familiar sense of wonder about being so little in a such a big world.
Agnes Denes. This is a video about her project Tree Mountain, a good place to start. This is about the recent retrospective exhibition, Absolutes and Intermediates, which just closed in March 2020 at https://theshed.org. She is a conceptual artist whose projects include architectural monuments and the world’s first manmade virgin forest (see below).
I bow down.
Two recurrent topics, shorelines and tree branches, mapped out. I had these ideas. I thought I knew where I was going. Then all of a sudden things came to a stop.
The transition from confusion to order is completed, and everything is in its proper place even in particulars. The strong lines are in the strong places, the weak lines in the weak places. This is a very favorable outlook, yet it gives reason for thought. For it is just when perfect equilibrium has been reached that any movement may cause order to revert to disorder.
63. Chi Chi / After Completion
The I Ching or Book of Changes
Richard Wilhelm translation from Chinese into German.
These two drawings are sheltering in place at my studio in Buellton. We offer curbside service.
A new full size pencil drawing can be seen in the window of the Lo-Fi Wines in Los Alamos, California, accompanied by a panoramic view of Vandenberg, Surf with Space Launch Complex, and a section of Quercus lobata or valley oak, Branching, which attempts to illustrate self-similarity more naturally than a Mandelbrot section.
Meanwhile, down in San Diego, a few prints are appearing in person at Bench Home on Adams in Kensington. A framed tree branches print looks very pretty at Bench Home on Instagram too.
#losalamos #california #lofiwines #kensington #sandiego #pencildrawings #annieyakutis #benchhome #benchsd
The mythology of the moon, her symbolism. Her tidal power. Her beautiful light. Photographed by NASA in 1969.
A pencil drawing, First Moon, 2018, graphite on Rives BFK, 32 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (with basswood frame) is also an archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle Matte FineArt, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (with basswood frame).
Quercus lobata, a native California oak tree, can be seen along coastal highways from Thousand Oaks to the Bay Area. When they start to leaf out in early spring you can really see how their complex branching structures resemble an entire tree, down to each little leaf.
As my friend Eric explains it, you can take a tiny part and imagine it as the whole thing, just tiny, like in the distance. It really does look like a whole tree.
I’m working on a big drawing of this spot. I got it started yesterday, November 4, 2019.
This pencil drawing is 42 inches square, a little bigger in its basswood frame. It is up at Lo-Fi Wines tasting room in Los Alamos, California now. Although the drawing is untitled, the trees are coast live oaks, Quercus agrifolia.
I usually don’t say much about these abstract tondos because I want to leave them open to interpretation. Their plain alphanumeric titles refer to a series, a year, and their order in a sequence. Here I am free to allow my materials to express their own nature. I can’t see what they will look like when they are dry. I can try to set it all up for alchemical success, but in the end all I can do is stop in time.
This one. Of earth and water. Patience versus anger. Woods and mountains. East. Wind and rain. The planet Jupiter. Dragons. The sense of sight. The holy ghost, life eternal, hope. The time after epiphany. The time after pentecost. Patience versus anger. A pretty scrap of silk my mother wore as a belt for the dress she called her sackcloth and ashes. A very large emerald. China.
These three drawings combine transparent watercolor with color pencils or graphite. The references are views into the canopy of a certain valley oak. They remind me of embroideries. Each one is on a 30 x 22 sheet of watercolor paper framed with basswood and plexiglass. You can see them in person at Lofi Wines in Los Alamos, California. I made the top two before leaving Santa Ynez for Buellton in 2010. The last one is from 2019. I look forward to making more of these because valley oaks have the most remarkable serpentine branches. In the spring when the leaves are still small you can really make a study of them.
An otherworldly view of a location not far from where I live, this is a picture of a large pencil drawing completed in 2018. The image measures 23 5/8 x 70 5/8 inches.
graphite on paper, 42 x 42 inches
Tree branches.
Oak tree branches.
Branching structures in general, but
Quercus agrifolia in this instance.
Certain plant communities. After rain.
Cool and breezy.
All this and more can be yours!
$, Annie