Monday, April 30, 2007


Televac 86,000 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

We picked one randomly, that we both like, and it had LOTS of text. Enjoy...

In the 70’s and 80’s, the fair had an edge to it. The midway had a real freak show, men with more tattoos than teeth ran the rides, and the bathrooms were scarier than the roller coaster. No one complained about parking in the dirt, and no one even thought about the temperature of the oil that fried up the corny dogs. Twenty-five years later, the fair has lost its edge.

Wonderfully maintained bathrooms aside, we’re always on the lookout for vestiges of the fair of our youth. If you look carefully, occasionally you can find it lurking in the sleazy expression of a carny on the midway or the dunk-tank insult clown. Our favorite place to look is the exhibition buildings. You still see the guys selling knives, the tables full of John Birchers or UAW trying to sign you up, and in a couple of places, you can even find the original personality computer, the Televac 86000. With its blinking lights and metal frame, it looks like something off the original Star Trek set. It’s rickety and scratched, and, in an era of iPods and flat screen TVs, utterly ridiculous. In short, it is magnificent. Neither of us has ever had the nerve to waste our money on an actual test, but it is a cornerstone of the fair, and we look for it every year.

When we were trying to name this painting, we thought of the Televac 86000, and so we named the painting in its honor. Maybe we’ll actually get a test next year.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007



Nightime Fair #3 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Now we start with a look back at some of our favorites. This was first posted on December 11, 2006. After over 100 donuts being posted, this still holds up as one of our very favorite donuts. Hope you enjoy it too.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007



Green Circle 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

Here is our last Spring Circle of the series. We'll have to see what's next. We can't wait.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007



Spring Circles #2 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

More flowers, more circles. Tomorrow is our last "Spring" painting for a little while. We've had a lot of fun with the flowers and have gotten a great response. We're still figuring out which paintings from the past couple of months we'll bring back for the next two weeks--we've got a couple of formulas and an old Texas Instruments algebraic calculator from the mid-eighties to help us determine the proper sequence of paintings.

Rest assured, it will be a precise, logical sequence of repeats. Just like the guest stars in a quality episode of "Love Boat" or "Fantasy Island," only paintings that are truly worthy will be brought back for a return engagement.

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Monday, April 23, 2007



Spring Circles #1 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Computer problems and killer cooties prevented us from even posting (or, in the case of the killer cooties, even caring about) Friday's blog. Anyway, we're back with the remaining three "Spring" paintings before we have a "Best of" couple of weeks so that we can get caught up on other work.

Robin is working on a twenty-foot sculpture, and Christina is teaching a lot more for the Arts Council until the end of May. We'll give you the scoop tomorrow.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007


Spring Painting #10 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Just like yesterday, today's painting has two layers of flowers. The first layer is filled with a light, watercolor wash and outlined in oil pastel. The second layer contains a variety of flowers, and just to keep it interesting, we switched and reversed the colors in a couple of places.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007


Spring Painting #9 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Today's painting has two layers of flowers--one underneath the collaged tissue paper and the final, blue layer floating on top.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007



Spring Painting #9 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

More "one stroke" flowers and more collage. The more we make these, the more (obsessed?) curious we are about working with them on a larger scale. We're hoping to do a large project with them. We'll see what happens.

Today's painting has collaged tissue paper and a very painterly, orange background.

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Monday, April 16, 2007


Spring Painting #8 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

These "one stroke" flowers tend to exist in clusters on quaint things like watering cans and old cigar boxes, and we're fascinated with what they look like outside of their regular context as well as how we can incorporate them into our larger paintings, too.

Today's painting has part of a collaged monotype and a bit of a switch-up on the colors of the flowers.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007


Frosting with Flowers 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

You can't have a birthday without a cake, and you can't have a birthday cake without flowers--Then you HAVE to have ooey, gooey, frosting with flowers. YUMMY!

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007


Birthday Cake with Flowers 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

You can't have a birthday without a cake, and you can't have a bithday cake without flowers (hee hee)...

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007


Birthday Cake 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

You can't have a birthday without a cake...

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Monday, April 09, 2007


ReJeania's Birthday 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

This is part of a birthday series that our friend, Tom, commissioned in honor of his wife's birthday. He threw her a fabulous surprise party where we ate our weight in shrimp, spinach dip, bacon-wrapped quail, and birthday cake.

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Friday, April 06, 2007


Spring Circles #2" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Here is a little hint of things to come. You'll see...

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Thursday, April 05, 2007


Spring Circles #1" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Here is the beginning of a little series of Spring Circles.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007


Spring Painting # 7" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

This painting is another from our sculpture sketches, and below is the actual sculpture which came out of those sketches. It proudly stands in front of W&W Steel Co. of Oklahoma City.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007


Spring Painting # 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

The paintings in the last few days have all contained collage sketches for a ten-foot tall, 6000 pound sculpture that we did three years ago as a commission. We came across the page of sketches over Spring Break--we never throw anything away-- and thought we would incorporate them into our paintings.

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Monday, April 02, 2007



Spring Painting # 4 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100


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