He Lured the Bird from His Brain

Just working on small paintings and drawings at the same time as I work on the larger ones. This is 2.5x2.5 inches on copper. I like these little jewels. You can see some thoughts for this in the sketchbook post below.

Live Bidding

The bidding for these postcards has gone live on ebay. There are a lot of great cards so if you have a few extra bucks and want to support something great. . .

Here's the link: AUCTION

I'm a Sketchbook Fool

Just posting some sketchbook things to keep you all here. Love my sketchbook.

Spectrum 17 Weekend

Got back yesterday from Kansas City. It was an incredible weekend with some great artists and and people. Kinda restored my faith in people. We worked hard and we talked hard. All in all we chose a lot of great pieces and some wonderful winners. I want to thank the whole jury, the staff and especially Arnie and Cathy Fenner. They not only produce a great book but with their knowledge and personalities seem to be caretakers of a genre. Heady stuff I know but I'm feelin' it. Probably be embarrassed in a few days but now it is etched in cyberspace. Here is a little drawing I did for them before I went out there. I now see how appropriate it is. I made sure that I chose dark colored beans to vote with to stay true to the drawing. Here is a link to Spectrum so you can see the winners and the room in which we juried.

Spectrum

Alice's Tears

And the final Alice painting. Hope I can get it to the gallery on time.

Bill and Dave Show

So here it is. As a reminder, my friend and I spent two and a half days living in the Alexander Gallery, at Clackamas College just outside of Portland, OR, and painting, drawing, etc.. We worked hard and had a lot of fun. I finished about 12 pieces. My students will recognize some of them as charcoal gesso demo things. Of course these don't have the level of intensity usually seen in my work but are refreshing in other ways. It was a challenge to see how fast we could work and yet keep a level of quality. We started slow but built steam and ended with more than enough to cover the walls. I'd do this again in a heartbeat with the right partner. Dave and his school were great!



The pieces are all some mix of acrylics, charcoal, and/or ink. The works on cardboard are between approx. 18x24 and 30x40 inches while the others are all in the 11x15 inch range.

Snack


Pig's Eye


Red Wall


TreeBird


There's a Fuckin' Hare in My Pants


Ninth Life


What the Hell was That?


Ever Have that Dream?


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The Certitude of Flight


Adventure


This was the student project. Enlarging a collage by reproducing sections 1" x 1" up to 12" x 12". it was pretty impressive on the wall.

and finally badass me and Dave

More Pics

We've Started

We've Started. I'll try to update but I'm in a painting frenzy.

New Alice Underway

Thought I'd put this up. I'm trying to finish this for the Alice show but I'm leaving tomorrow for five days. So here is my third Alice offering in progress. I'll finish it next weekend when I get back. The reason for leaving town is a cool show I'm doing with a friend in Portland. We will be spending four days in the gallery at Clackamas College painting for an opening on Thursday night. Hopefully I will be posting pics here of our progress and gallery frolicking. There will also be a video at the end with interviews and candid shots, etc.. So check in now and then for updates.

Alice and Mad

And finally. . .This is one of those paintings that I worked on too long and could have worked on forever. I want to put more stuff into it but life goes on. Hope you're not disappointed.

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.

Narwhal Rain (the painting)

The painting the world has been waiting for. Well maybe not the world. This is for a show, at the Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration NY, called Earth: Fragile Planet. It was an honor being invited to exhibit. The show is not for awhile but I finished early in order to move on to other things. It is 12x16 inches acrylic on panel.

Boise (Journal)

For you Boiseans the Boise (formerly Boise Journal) magazine did a great article about me. Erin Ryan wrote it and did a fantastic job. Kinda cool. The cover was a nice surprise. I've posted all of the artwork included here on my blog at some point but I can post the text if someone wants to read it. By the way the magazine is available at most places that sell magazines.

Just Walkin' My Tree

I'm almost finished with the large painting but in the meantime I slip little ones like this in. 4x6 inches on copper.