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Hi and welcome to J.Lee Arts and Music. Just got back from NYC dropping our child off at college! Thanks to our good friends Jay and Karen for letting us catsit their cool cat Ozu at their sweet bo-ho Village pad and garden! Got to hang with all our New York friends, played a gig, met some new friends, traveled all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. Really fun. Since I’ve been back home in SF I’ve done a new painting, made and prototyped some new mobile ideas and crunched out basics for two new Starry Skemes tracks. I’ll debrief soon w/ some new pics, vids and tracks. As always, thanks for checking out the site!

Marshal Beach, SF 16 x 20 Acrylic Went out to the Presidio and found this spot on the Bunker/Beach trail near the GG Bridge overlook (I will never paint the GG Bridge as a motif, so many have and are far more capable of that than I). I knew it was going to be a bit of a slog getting to this point since it is down a cliff a couple hundred feet. Good exercise on the way back! It wasn’t too windy for a change, though there were a couple little rain showers which is surprising for this time of year. I was dabbling in the mixing of complementary colors trying to tone down the chroma to create more atmospheric perspective. I’m happy with it though I know I have a ways to go before I can dial in the colors of the natural world.

Upcoming Show: Warm Spell Live 9/7/25

I recently thought it would be cool for Warm Spell to play an outdoor full moon party. Then I remembered my friend Dave Kimberling mention he is in a group called the Fairies in the East Bay that does full moon parties, so I rang him up and we set up this gig! Looking forward to it! For the intrepid cultist psychedelic music fan: Warm Spell will be playing an outdoor full moon party in El Sobrante, CA 9/7.

Loma Alta Open Space, Fairfax CA

Upcomming show 8/20/25 Caffeine Underground, Brooklyn, NY

Marina and I will be playing solo sets at Caffeine Underground in Bushwick. I’m messing around with some backing tapes and 30 second outgoing answering machine loop tapes to accompany my acoustic set as well as some ambient psych experiments. Thanks to old friend GT Arpe for reaching out and making this show happen! NY friends, hope to see you out there on this rare occasion. Caffeine Underground is located at 447 Central Ave Suite A, Brooklyn, NY