draw either what I see or what I created on purpose,” Levi said.
“It’s like conjuring, it is like magic. You’ll see a puff of smoke, it’s like looking at a cloud, and then she’ll paint into it and you’ll see faces, birds, it’s amazing,” Cabral said of Levi’s work. “We’re actually going to have her doing this in the back, live, so people can watch her conjure, watch the magic of art come to be. It’s like alchemy.”
Rolly will also be creating works on site. His is a special combination of photography and oil painting that he terms “oil graphs.”
“About 13 years ago I was searching for a particular look in the work, a virgin look,” Rolly said. “I tried it with the dark room, I tried it with lighting techniques and then I realized that it had to be something physically dark so I actually just took a black and white print and used black oil paint and that was it, that’s how it started.”
Rolly will be creating original portrait pieces for anyone who comes in during the art walk using a large Polaroid camera and oil paints.
“I’ll be doing custom portraits,” he said. “I’ll be able to do them instantly.”
Each venue will host something different, and the experience is free.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 12, 2007. Read the original PDF.