In the Meantime. . .

While we're waiting for Bill to finish his Alice piece. . .Sometimes I like to modify sketchbook stuff to make cool little drawings. This was done back before my Narwhal Rain painting. I like it so much I think I'm going to enter it in something.

Hatter 4

I'm posting this because I love you. I am diddling with this piece too much. Adding and subtracting, then adding and subtracting some more. I was also interrupted with an emergency piece over the weekend. I will finish this in the next day or two or die trying. It really only needs a few things unless I start doing my adding and subtracting thing again. Guess I'll lose money on this painting but if I were in it for the money I would be doing someone's taxes right now.

Hatter 3

I think this might be the last progress shot. The next thing you see will be the finished image, I hope.

Not Sure

I'm not really sure if this will work or if it's even worth doing but I am going to try and post progress shots of this painting for the Alice in Wonderland show as I go. Usually I post the finished piece with the progress shots but we'll try it this way to see what happens. I feel a little naked showing all of my marks, snots and goobers as I go but this is an important part of my process. The bad brushstrokes and "mistakes" all tell me something and could lead to beautiful passages which would otherwise stay hidden were I more careful. Anyway, this doesn't work quite as well when I'm under a tight deadline but there is nothing more enjoyable for me than this kind of dialogue with a painting.

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Brownstones to Red Dirt

I was honored to be invited to take part in a great project called Brownstones to Red Dirt. In short it connects kids from different parts of the world to be pen pals. Check out the site and the blog where post cards done by an impressive list of artists are posted. Here is my humble offering.

Tweedles

Sorry for the length between posts. First week of school kinda took something out of me. This painting is for another show at Gallery Nucleus.
It's an Alice in Wonderland tribute that opens February 27th. How could I say no to that? The title is "Dude, What are You Wearing?" and it's 5x7 inches acrylic on copper. I will also do one or two more.

Article

I really wasn't sure how to post this. I had a few requests for the article in Boise Magazine so here it is. I hope you all can read it. Actually I hope you even care. By the way there were several more really nice reproductions of my work to go along with the text.