A great evening at the Peggy Zask Gallery with a silent auction. Then we had a live auction of 20 works of art. A good crowd; and we raised plenty for FLAG STOP and the Surfrider Foundation, two good and worthy causes.

Get to the auction Friday evening 6-9 to benefit the SurfRider Foundation and the FLAG STOP event.

I am the auctioneer.

You will bid on the original art to start your art collections.

YES I say to you!

The Muse Exhibition

This is a great exhibition at the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center. Over 30 photographers have photographed the same girl as the artist's muse - yours truly included. The show runs until late June. Well worth a trip to see it.

Funny how this week, in London, the Royals have a wedding, and persist in promoting the lineage of the Prince, while acknowledging the bride's background, while the US president has to show his birth certificate to prove his legitimacy.

Hanging the Pastel Show

Hanging the Pastel Society of Southern California's 2nd Annual Show this morning with Dave Wolfram at the Creative Arts Center in Manhattan Beach. Fifty members work is represented. I have a couple of pieces in, too. The reception is tomorrow evening. Here we go--------

Being an auctioneer at an art event is a blast! My first time (and maybe only time) doing this improv theater, while raising money and playing the gentleman in the green hat against the lady in blue.

However, today is another day and I'm focussing on creating a pastel for the Pastel Society of Southern California's annual show in Manhattan Beach. Deadline is tomorrow. What will I create?

Today we had our 3rd meeting to create an art walk event in Torrance. Our first meeting had almost 30 people at the Torrance Art Museum. Today we had 9. We are expanding our location search from old town Torrance into bigger industrial spaces, partly to include shipping containers to display contemporary art.

Tonight is the closing of the last show at the Zask Gallery in Palos Verdes at its Golden Cove location. There's a wine tasting event, and then a live auction of donated works of art to raise funds for the move into the Peninsular Center. I have donated "A Touch of Fruit".

I am the auctioneer, too.

Mmmmm - should be interesting......