Wednesday, February 28, 2007


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

More gloss black, oil stick, and metallic gray just 'cause it's sparkly.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007


Black #2 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Okay, it's Golden's gloss black again, other brightly colored acrylics, oil stick, and some collage pieces that may or may not appear to be Easter eggs. No, we did not acquiesce and decide to do eggs, candy, bunnies, etc. We've got a thing for circles and ellipses.

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Monday, February 26, 2007


Black #1 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

This week we're working on paintings that all started out with a black ground. Instead of a matte black for today's painting, we used Golden's gloss black, combined it with other acrylic colors, oil stick, and collage.

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Friday, February 23, 2007


Two Turntables and a Microphone? 5" x 7"
Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

It's safe to say that we've got a little thing going with modeling paste. We like to think of it as artistic, overpriced joint compound. It's like working with super-thick cake frosting that you know will dry hard as a rock in a relatively short amount of time. It's great for texture, and colors look nice when they settle in the cracks and crevices.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007


Three Stripes 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

We started out with a couple of layers of acrylic paint, then used a very thick layer of modeling paste as the base to carve out the stripes, then more layers of brightly colored, luchador-approved acrylic to get the palate just right.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007


Dark Landscape 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

Despite some of its brighter colors and whimsical shapes, this painting is still too dark to be related to a "Peter Rabbit" anything. It has a bit of a landscape feel to it and could certainly find a home in the book we have floating in our collective brain, but there are no marshmellow peeps or Cadbury eggs here. It's a bit dark, and that's one of the things that we really like about it.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007


Peter Rabbit Landscape 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD

This painting has tons of oil stick, a base of many colors of acrylic paint, and feels like the kind of landscape that might exist in the book we've talked about writing and illustrating.

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Monday, February 19, 2007



Peter Rabbit 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

We've got our old pals, collage, oil stick, metallic paint pen, and a bit of an inadvertent Easter theme. Too many visits down the candy aisle at CVS.

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Friday, February 16, 2007


Blue Valentine 5"x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

This is the last of our Valentine fare for 2007. It went through some scary stages along the way, but has turned out to be one of our favorites.

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Thursday, February 15, 2007


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

This valentine has a lot of oil stick, some oil pastel, and a base of many colors of acrylic paint.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007


Valentine # 7 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

So much for color on another vile February morning--We're back to our beloved Golden, high gloss black....And, hey, guess what? It's cold, windy, and gray here--again. And, oh yeah, it's 18 degrees!!?! This is not our kind of okie winter. Oklahoma winter dictates that after you have a bout of hideously cold/gray weather, you MUST HAVE and ARE ENTITLED to at least two days of (non-global-warming-related) sunny weather in the sixties. Maybe even the high sixties. Like 67, sunny, slight breeze. We were robbed.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2007


Valentine # 6 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

We thought that we would post something with lots of color on a vile February morning....It's cold, windy, and gray here--again. The lack of sun is getting a little old. It's sort of like being in Seattle without all of the coffee shops, microbreweries, and bald, goateed men with interesting glasses.

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Monday, February 12, 2007


Valentine # 5 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100

This is a lot more graphic than most of our work, but we had fun with Golden's black gloss acrylic and the silver paint pen....Then we found a box of assorted colors that we had used when we were working on our series of a hundred paintings a few years ago. Love those paint pens...

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Friday, February 09, 2007



Valentine # 4 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100



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Thursday, February 08, 2007


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


For our third valentine, we really dipped into the luchador color palate, and we used a lot of oil stick.

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007


Valentine # 2 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100


For our second valentine, we brought back a little collage and a couple of our favorite colors from the luchador palate. Still no teddy bear...

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007


Valentine # 1 6" x 8" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke SOLD


Here's our first valentine, as promised. No teddy bear. No cute kitten. No chocolate brown, either, but it's early in the week...

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Monday, February 05, 2007


Stripes # 5 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100


In our last "Stripe" painting for a while, we can't get away from chocolate brown, transparent Golden acrylics, and of course, our much-loved oil sticks.

If all goes according to plan, we will be starting some valentines tomorrow. Not cutesy ones. Not sweet ones. They might even be peculiar and strange, and chocolate brown and black will probably be involved at some point. We'll see what happens happens.

Doe-eyed teddy bears need not apply....

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Friday, February 02, 2007


Stripes # 4 5" x 7" Christina Pickard & Robin Orbach Starke $100


Stripes week continues with a quick visit from our luchador color palate, our much-loved oil sticks, and of course, more collage.

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Thursday, February 01, 2007


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


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