I will be participating in this year’s Vino de Sueño (VDS) art and wine charity auction. Tickets are available for purchase on the VDS website. My painting is paired on the label of the Quail Crossing Vineyard’s 2009 Pinot Grigio. Half of the proceeds go to a charity set up through the nonprofit People Helping People to benefit the vineyard and agricultural workers of the Santa Ynez Valley. Here are the details: Date: Saturday, November …

I’m one painting behind, so tonight I’ll be trying to finish two works along the same theme. If you have visited my main website, zoenathan.com, you may have seen the Miscellaneous page [now archived], which shows a face painting project I worked on for a photographer friend, Ernst Mutchnick. The models reported feeling quite peculiar wearing their country of origin on their face for everyone to see for a while after being photographed. The whole …