New Location for Keni Arts

Keni Arts has moved to http://keni.com

Los Angeles Coliseum

This is the sight of the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984. Built in 1923 for under one million dollars, it is now the primary home of the USC Trojan football team.

City Works

I met a city worker here in the shadow of Pasadena City Hall. She was very friendly and had a good sense of humor.

I've painted city hall numerous times.

This 9"x12" original watercolor painting is for sale for $350 unframed. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

Secrets

This is Old Town Pasadena. Pasadena was one of the first cities in Southern California that recognized a potential gold mine in its deteriorating and abandoned architecture. About thirty five years ago, it began to revitalize this area of town. Now, it's one of the more popular weekend hangouts for the younger crowd.

Many other communities have since turned their eyesores into eye candy.

Two siblings (a brother and sister) from South America stopped to watch and chat early one Saturday morning while I painted here.

This 9"x12" original watercolor painting is for sale for $350 unframed. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

Sycamore Park

I thought I'd find a nice, quiet place to paint, so I stopped at this park in the city of Highland Park.

Things were quiet until a broken down lady with a scraggly little dog in tow came over and with little more than an introduction, offered to have sex with me behind the building.

I wasn't about to go along with it. I figure if any man would be dumb enough to follow her to her secret place, he'd probably be greeted by a big ugly man who'd club the sucker over the head and take all his money.

Instead, I told the woman that the man she needed was Jesus, then finished my painting.

This 9"x12" original watercolor painting is for sale for $350 unframed. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

I completed this painting in record-breaking time. This is a familiar sight to anyone who frequently travels Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. It's the Cross Roads travel agency and a group of other small business.

The reason this painting happened so fast (in about 30 minutes) is that the wind was blowing extremely hard and it was very cold.

It was so cold that no one even slowed down to talk or to just see what I was doing. One would never think that Southern California could get so cold without snowing.

This 9"x12" original watercolor painting is for sale for $350 unframed. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

Fruit Cart Vendors

It was the day before the Los Angeles marathon. The streets were bustling in the garment district. Fruit cart vendors pushed their cargo around selling colorful eats.

Things happened so fast that I hardly could take it all in. A vendor and his family near me were suddenly surrounded by a group of men and women as several other men in drug their cart away. I looked around and saw the same thing happening to other vendors.

A big dump truck with lights flashing screeched to a halt and men began tossing the carts and the contents in the dumpster bin. Quicker than I could get a fresh sheet of watercolor paper out of my kit and paint the scene, the party was over.

The plain clothes officers had cleaned the streets for the high profile race, the vendors were whisked off to jail and the shoppers went on about their business while I returned to my painting.

New vendors and new carts would be back in about three days and I would be on another street corner wondering what might happen this time.

This 9"x12" original watercolor painting is for sale for $250 unframed. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

Note: Saturday, I forgot to put a link on a site I was referring to until later in the morning. If you noticed the omission, oops. The link is now active.