Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interesting Defect. Pablo's art requires the touch of a miniaturist, the steadiness of a demolition expert. He has both, plus an assorted palette of six watercolor shades and seven sable brushes of various sizes and shapes-shaving-brush thick for blush powder, pencil-thin for under-eyeliner. Eyes are made up as much as possible: double, even triple rows of false eyelashes ("Doesn't everybody own at least three pairs?"), and the rest a subtle blending of watercolor tones: black eyeliner, then white, light brown, dark brown (in the crease of the eyelid), light brown again, ending...
...pose for the combat figure in the cover background had attended his alma mater, the New Mexico Military Institute. He has a 20-year-old son who before long will face a problem similar to that of this year's graduating class. Working in the faster medium of watercolor rather than his more familiar tempera, Hurd immediately liked his subject, sought to convey the impression of a young man seriously pondering the future-which surely represents the mood of the class...
Actor Henry Fonda, 61, squinted at the watercolor in Manhattan's Cober Gallery and grinned: "My, what a lovely painting. I wonder who did that." Actually, the masterpiece, entitled The Old Quarter, Gerona, was an original 1966 Fonda. Hank, who paints as much as he acts, donated Gerona to a benefit sale for the Gotham Chapter of Retarded Infants Services, an event that also featured the efforts of such old masters as Soupy Sales and Xavier Cugat. "I take such a joy in painting," said Fonda, inspecting the art with his wifely muse of five months, Shirlee...
...research to do." He prowled from Carnaby Street to King's Road, slipping in and out of boutiques and coffeehouses, among other places, and summed up the scene in a collage technique that includes, as he put it, "bits of just about everything -acrylics, watercolor, chalk, pen and ink, labels...
...been monotonously celebrating himself for years in such tomes as Sexus, Nexus and Plexus, the report was an astonishing relief. "I've written everything I want to say," announced Henry Miller, 74-at long last. From now on, said Miller as he opened a show of his fanciful watercolor paintings in Los Angeles' Westwood Art Association gallery, he will chase down his muse primarily with brushes. "It seems to me that the battle for freedom on the sex problem has been won," he proclaimed. Then, in a meditation that many wish he had made years ago, he added...