Hedge Graphics: Illustration Representative

09/30/2024

My cover photo has been up so long thru this rocky year I think I'll just leave it up...the colors, alone are inspiring and spring is, er, just around the corner!

04/01/2024

Things are starting to bloom! Despite pounding rains, cold nights, high winds...beauty will not be deterred! These clivia are among the first!

03/25/2024

Long a two-cat household, here's Monkey who visited us recently and stayed, and sleeps in the barn on an old chaise lounge laden with blankets for the cold nights, and a view out the ajar barn door at the lemon tree, birds, and oncoming springtime. Older orange neutered male Golden Boy, love of my life, does not like him, but is adjusting via intimidating Monkey. I hear them outside when G-Boy gives him a short screech, but he gets lots of rubs and chats from me, so I look forward to improved feline relations. I believe Monkey, whom I flea-meds dosed already, is neutered, too, and is much younger than G-Boy. That white-rooted black fur is amazing! A plus: he's into dry food only, so G-Boy can monopolize the Fancy Feast Pate! One less expense. At some point Monkey can "indoors" with us, has already tripped in and out of the office for a look.The photo does him a disservice; he's really beautiful. Remember the old Lanvin "My Sin" black cat Sixties ads and packaging?🐈‍⬛

12/13/2023

Blue on blue, and it's about a wrap for Tony De Luz's latest Blue Rain Gallery commission, to the tunes of Fats' blues, for that Santa Fe and Durango gallery!! And Tony's Americana collection!💙

12/13/2023

Blue on blue for Tony's Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe (and Durango) and it's a wrap to the swinging blues by Fats!!!

10/11/2023

We're celebrating Tony De Luz's first sale at Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, from that gallery's new collection of the artist's Americana fine art portfolio! This is entitled "Higher Ground" and was created earlier this year at the Grand Canyon in the last rays of sunset light! Stay tuned! ©Tony De Luz - Higher Ground - 2023.

09/14/2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-09-08/steve-roden-obituary-artist-los-angeles "Roden’s final solo exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles, the gallery where he showed regularly for nearly 20 years, was mounted in the summer of 2019. During the subsequent pandemic, he continued to work privately in his studio. Earlier examples of his distinctive aesthetic were featured in recent group exhibitions in California and Europe, including 'Audiosphere: Sound Experimentation 1980-2020,' a major survey of contemporary sound art at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. Roden’s work is scheduled for inclusion in next year’s 'Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific' at Chapman University, part of the Getty Foundation’s upcoming Pacific Standard Time initiative exploring intersections between art and science. He was the subject of a 2010 midcareer retrospective at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece."--Christopher Knight, Art Critic.

Steve Roden, a multidisciplinary artist who produced abstract work in painting, sculpture, sound, installation and video, died at home in Pasadena on Wednesday.

09/08/2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-09-06/super-evil-genius-inspires-wicked-creativity-by-revamping-marketing-firm-culture Great story that, as unique as SEG is, resonates with our positive project experience with MSCHF in New York, for whom Tony De Luz created the two views of the yellow Lamborghini for MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., for toy packaging tied in with Mr. Beast, a popular YouTube philanthropist/influencer...Go, go Super Evil Genius team in Long Beach, remaking media culture!

The Long Beach-based firm founded by Ryan Jaso and Colby Reis is making a name for itself in the music, cannabis and alcohol marketing space.

07/08/2023

Our thanks to a repeat-client and major SoCal agency/design firm handling, quite excellently, a range of real estate developments, resorts and and resort communities, and multi-use recreational and residential projects from initial marketing stages to completion and sales, in CA, FL, UT, the East Coast, and Mexico, Costa Rica, and beyond, much which offer seasonal outdoor fun and pro amenities such as skiing, snowboarding, golf, tennis, pickle-ball, swimming, and trail sports. This project is sited near FL's Gulf Coast and with amendments and enhancements, requiring our team's organizational management and advanced illustration and technical skills, and the agency's creative direction and clarity, was created during most of the first quarter of 2023. The collective inspiration and sense(s) of humor didn't slow anybody down either--including our Tony De Luz!
©Tony De Luz_Hedge-FLGolfResortCommunity2023.

05/11/2023

Excited about this! Loved the first one that showcased my contemporaries! "(The Getty) announced a commitment to presenting Pacific Standard Time every five years and is tweaking the initiative’s name to “PST Art.” The next iteration is titled: “PST Art: Art & Science Collide...The Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present artworks at Brand Library & Art Center (Glendale) that ponder how a new understanding of the cosmos could shape relationships between humans and robots...The inaugural Pacific Standard Time, in 2011-12, explored the SoCal art scene from 1945-1980; the second one, in 2017-18, covered Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with L.A. The Getty’s overall grant investment for those initiatives was $11.4 million and $16.3 million, respectively...eight themes that the many exhibitions fall into...'Ecology and Environmental Justice,' 'Technologies of Seeing and Control,' 'The Body: Site, Image, Possibility,' 'Picturing Science' and 'The Skies and the Cosmos.'”

On May 9, the Getty announced the next edition of Pacific Standard Time, as well as a rebrand and project updates. The SoCal-wide multidisciplinary arts initiative, debuting in September 2024, will blend art and science.

02/07/2023

Maps, maps, maps! Artist/Designer De Luz continues projects for a great agency handling resort and recreation community developments: topography, natural features, amenities, homes, clubhouses...stay tuned!

02/07/2023

Valentine's Day a week away! Can you find the "hidden" Valentine in one of these Brassica blooms painted by watercolorist Marjorie Muns? ©MarjorieMuns-Hedge-Valentine'sBrassica2023.