The Artist at Home: A Quiet and Aesthetic Refuge

Openhouse and The San Francisco LGBT Community Center Presents: The Second Annual "When I GrowUp: A Lifetime Perspective by LGBT Elders"

OPENHOUSE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER PRESENTS;  "WHEN I GROW UP;  A LIFETIME OF PERSPECTIVE BY LGBT ELDERS".

This exhibit will open with a reception at the SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street, on Saturday, September 22 at 2PM and will be hanging until October 23.

I am happy to have the original watercolor painting "Who Will I Be Tonight?" in this show, because I think it really fits the theme, as it is about personality, psychology and culture.  Also, this is the first group exhibition that I've participated in since returning to San Francisco in April 2011.

The painting is now matted and framed, sized at aprox. 42" X 33", and is being offered for $2,200.00.

I am looking forward to the reception and seeing the entire body of work in the show; it will be interesting to visit with my peers in the creative process.

A WEEK IN A ZINFANDEL VINEYARD

In April I had the pleasure of spending a week in the town of Calistoga, at the north end of the Napa Valley.  I was attending a watercolor workshop at the studio of Barbara Nechis.  Barbara's studio is surrounded by her Zinfandel vineyard, with mountains beyond.  I was participating in one of several of Barbara's workshops that I've attended over the last 15 years.

Normally I don't "do" workshops; I spend most days and nights quietly working in my own small studio when I am not working in the barber shop.

But Barbara has a talent and skills that resonate with the abstract way that I "see" the world.  Most of what she teaches is technical processes that involve the interplay of pigment and water on paper;  simple enough, but with many potentials for creating interesting paintings.

In the 15 years that I have known Barbara, her paintings have become even more beautiful than I originally thought they were. I had always been interested in Abstract Expressionism, and Barbara is certainly not a painter who embraces that style, but she works with relationships of shapes, darks and lights, colors and neutrals in compelling ways.

Above is one of the first paintings that I did in a Barbara Nechis workshop.  It's probably as close to looking like her work as anything that I have ever done.  The painting ended up in an examining room in the office of Dr. Stephen Becker in San Francisco.

I often stray from the simple and sensible solutions that Barbara offers, because I get involved in my storytelling.  Working with Barbara is a great way to be reminded of the artist's relationship with his medium, and what a fulfilling experience it is to allow one's work to "talk" and guide the artist to something that is fresh and surprising.

"Four Corners"

Watercolor, 15 1/2" X 22" unframed, $500.00

Please contact the artist:

Robb Schaller

Paliuli, Watercolors

80 Seventh Avenue, Apt. 4

San Francisco, California 94118

415.563.6140

Email:  paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com

"April Landscape"

Watercolor, 15 1/2" X 21", unframed,  $500.00

Please contact the artist:

Robb Schaller

Paliuli, Watercolors

80 Seventh Avenue, Apt. 4

San Francisco, California 94118

415.563.6140

Email:  paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com

"ImaginationScape"



Watercolor, Image size 15" X 22 1/2", matted and framed, $1,500.00.

Please contact the artist:

Robb Schaller,
Paliuli, Watercolors
80 Seventh Avenue, Apt. 4
San Francisco, California 94118
Email: paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com
415.563.6140

"Bearded Male Balancing Spheres"



Watercolor, 18" X 24", Collection Kelessery Fanny, College Park, Maryland.

High quality gicle'e reproductions are available from the artist in various sizes. Please contact:

Robb Schaller
Paliuli, Watercolors
80 Seventh Avenue Apt. 4
San Francisco, California 94118
415.563.6140
email: paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com

I am Robb Schaller, and this is the portfolio for Paliuli, Watercolors, which I created as an umbrella for the wide variety of watercolor work that I produce. My interest in painting began on the Island of Hawai'i, when I was a student at the University of Hawai'i, and for many years the islands were my main muse for creating paintings. The vibrancy of color is still very influential in my work, but I have expanded my vision and am being stimulated by prehistoric, tribal and symbolic imagery from around the world. I can be reached at paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com.

"Who Will I Be Today?" Watercolor, 22" X 30" unframed. $1,800.00



Signed and numbered gicle'e reproductions in various sizes are available at reasonable prices. Please contact:

Robb Schaller
80 Seventh Avenue Apt. 4
San Francisco, CA 94118
email: paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com
phone: 415.563.6140

"Who Will I Be Tonight?" Watercolor, 22" X 30" Unframed. $1,800.00



Signed and numbered gicle'e reproductions in various sizes are available at reasonable prices.

Please contact:
Robb Schaller
Paliuli, Watercolors
80 Seventh Avenue Apt. 4
San Francisco, CA 94118
email: paliuliwatercolors@gmail.com
phone: 415.563.6140