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What's New
Little Swiss Café
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The Little Swiss Café with its quaint
old-time Carmel-by-the-Sea atmosphere is a place where locals come for
their favorite food. No one is a stranger, and everyone feels as if they
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Steven,
the owner of “TheLittle Swiss” and I, were brainstorming
one day about
what to do with the
barren walls
in the Café. We agreed that I would
paint a quick
and simple rendition of a Dutch
landscape in
four seasons.
(Steven is
Dutch as well.)
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It started out as a simple idea. The
panoramic
“Dutch Treat” scene became everything
but simple.
Not only was it challenging to create
a believable
perspective in the landscape, also a
way to include the change of the seasons was going to be tricky.
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Well, in the end it all became as
believable as the boy who saved Holland by sticking his finger in the
dike! One joke in the painting led to another, and pretty soon, the
paintings were filled with hilarious pranks and humorous situations. The
fun part about these paintings is that occasionally I will keep painting
more “stuff” in it. |
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Michael, a local patron to the Café,
lost his beautiful friend-parrot to a hawk recently. Mike was
devastated. When I heard about this, I painted his bird “Jimmy” into the
painting. Now Mike has breakfast on a regular basis accompanied by his
feathered friend! |
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A drawback of some sort is, that
those who see “Dutch Treat” at the Swiss Café assume my “regular” work
has the same humorous features. One day a couple, after having lunch at
the Little Swiss Café, visited an art gallery across the street wanting
to see more of my work. Their
response, after seeing my paintings in the gallery was: “We are somewhat
disappointed…there’s nothing funny in them!” |
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A new panel has been added to the
Little Swiss Café.
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"Dusk at Rocky Point"
68" x 107" |
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