Venice and Santa Monica beach life was amazing
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My watercolors were produced by using the camera obscura tracing method. I took photographs and projected the image on paper to trace the outlines of the different picture eliments. Then I colored in the drawing, Some of these works are so detailed they took weeks of work. I loved it all. People could see it.
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Susan Weinberg - ( Free Venice Beachhead Jan. 1980)
I love you Venice! I met you in the summer of 1974, that crazy summer of the nude beach, and fell instantly in love with the freedom of the place. You let me be, let me find myself! When not in my studio, I spent long hours on the Walk, drinking in the history that just pours from the walls of the old buildings and feeling the vibrations of its people. Venice is magic! My drawings are magic! They almost draw themselves. These drawings are part of a series that I call my "Coloring Book" series. They are done simply, easily, with the use of the thousands of photographs I have lovingly taken during my years in Venice. They were born out of the need to say: "Thank you, Venice," in the most direct, unpretentious way possible. I want to show My Venice, the Venice of people all existing in their own spaces, doing their own thing - all an expression of love and joy and of a faith that the world can be a place of peace and harmony. My drawings cover the time period from 1974 to 1980. Venice has changed in that period of time - it always is in a state of change. So many people need Venice we must not be too selfish with her. I have moved away from Venice now, down the Walk to Santa Monica. Now I must skate down to Venice, through the no-man’s land separating the two cities, to the little island I feel is my home.Today everybody is skating - tomorrow it will be something else. But Venice will always be for the people. If joy is a sign of the presence of God, then God resides in Venice. The God-force, the Creative Force, will never let its people down. So, thank you again Venice, for being here. Here’s looking forward to the ‘80s. May the Spirit of Venice always endure.
I love you Venice! I met you in the summer of 1974, that crazy summer of the nude beach, and fell instantly in love with the freedom of the place. You let me be, let me find myself! When not in my studio, I spent long hours on the Walk, drinking in the history that just pours from the walls of the old buildings and feeling the vibrations of its people. Venice is magic! My drawings are magic! They almost draw themselves. These drawings are part of a series that I call my "Coloring Book" series. They are done simply, easily, with the use of the thousands of photographs I have lovingly taken during my years in Venice. They were born out of the need to say: "Thank you, Venice," in the most direct, unpretentious way possible. I want to show My Venice, the Venice of people all existing in their own spaces, doing their own thing - all an expression of love and joy and of a faith that the world can be a place of peace and harmony. My drawings cover the time period from 1974 to 1980. Venice has changed in that period of time - it always is in a state of change. So many people need Venice we must not be too selfish with her. I have moved away from Venice now, down the Walk to Santa Monica. Now I must skate down to Venice, through the no-man’s land separating the two cities, to the little island I feel is my home.Today everybody is skating - tomorrow it will be something else. But Venice will always be for the people. If joy is a sign of the presence of God, then God resides in Venice. The God-force, the Creative Force, will never let its people down. So, thank you again Venice, for being here. Here’s looking forward to the ‘80s. May the Spirit of Venice always endure.
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