These are experiments in spontaneous, fast-paced, real-time pictorial responses to music, or to a particular physical or social setting.

During these events, the act of drawing and painting becomes a form of dance or pantomime, where the moving brush is like an animated part of the painting.
The artwork is ephemeral and consists in the making of the picture, while the end product is usually removed or destroyed as soon as the event is over.

Homage to Piazzoni, at San Francisco's M.H. de Young Museum

Live paintings during MAPP (Mission Arts and Performance Project)

Live concert painting at The Independent

Live painting at Counterpulse's "Feast of Fools"

"Freeway Bird" at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Action in solidarity with Burma uprising, 9/28/2007

Winged bike in São Paulo, Brazil

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