Hooray! My website redesign has been launched. I need to make this blog integrate / match but...
Part Two

Creative Events Calender – Spring 2008

Here is a calender done for Portfolio Creative staffing by my brother and I. We took some illustrations that I posted here on my blog and also some paintings he did and put them together. It is finished and here it is. If you register for my blog I will give you one. I have [...]

www.MichaelParenteau.com – ReDesigned!

www.MichaelParenteau.com - ReDesigned!

So the time finally came to learn more about the development side of web design. I really love to make art, design, etc. However, I also want to eat and feed the homestead too if you know what I mean. So, in the process of hunting for jobs in the design world… I discovered that [...]

Fatherhood

Fatherhood

I painted this when I found out that I was going to be a dad. It is 4 feet by 8 feet on a really heavy canvas. I look at it as a mix between the abstract expressionist movement and caveman art. It is a milestone piece for me. Why did the caveman make art [...]

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Bay Area Figurative Art 1950 – 1965

Bay Area Figurative Art 1950 - 1965

I was introduced to this book my junior year in high school. My Painting teacher, Phil Arena, and sculpture teacher, Ken Valimaki, felt it was an essential refference book for the fine artist. The abstract expressionist movement in San Francisco was really figurative! There were many non-objective contributions, but the figurative works put them on [...]

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Bay Area figurative Art Gallery

 

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