New Paintings

I just got slides back the other day from Jake over at Blue Moon. Thanks again!
So without further ado...
(click on the images to view them a good deal bigger!)

"Underworld"  oil on canvas  2010
It started off with a fox but I just couldn't get it to look right. So then I decided it didn't really need a character at all. And then late at night I changed my mind again and added the bunny. Okay, rabbit. But bunny is funnier. Anyway I like it. It make me laugh.

"Prelude no. 2"
at least that's the title for now, in reference to "Prelude to an Encounter" which would be no. 1
This one is very simple but I'm proud of it. At least for now. My opinion of my own work is as variable as the weather.

"Map"
I stole both the concept and title for this piece from this very different image by Nick Sheehy (aka Showchicken). You can see his work on his Flickr page.

Currently untitled
A cedar tree. "Cedar"?  "Barrier"?  "Between"?  I don't know.

"Rehearsal"
The slide on this one had a lot of glare on it. I was able to fix it up pretty good in Photoshop but Jake's going to reshoot it anyway. This is only my second theater/public space painting of which I hope to do many more.

Linden drawing

Well I don't post very often here, mostly because I don't get that much new work done, although I should have some new slides in a couple weeks.

So I thought I'd post some work by Linden who is now a few months past her 2nd birthday. I thought what she was working on last night looked pretty good.

She's using washable markers and went at it with a sponge toward the end.

River Styx magazine cover

This just came in the mail yesterday. It looks very nice.
River Styx is a non-profit literary magazine that comes out three times a year (for 35 years now). You can check out their website here: www.riverstyx.org

The cover is "Crescendo", the back cover "Under The St. John's Bridge"

A bit of process

I took a snapshot of the early sketch stage of "Performance". I'm not sure that it's worth much as an insight into my process. So I'll also offer this observation from my journal on finishing a painting:

"This is how I know a painting is finished: I realise that the last substantive brush stroke I made was about an hour ago and that all I've done since is nitpick at the details."

2 more paintings

These are also recent although they are not scheduled to be included in any shows so far unless they make it to my annual exhibition next April. I'm particularly happy with the piece "Performance" and may do some variations on this them at some point.

















"Performance" oil on canvas 2010






















"Under Water no.2"

two new train paintings

So I'm putting five paintings in a train themed show in Corvallis, Oregon (at the Corvallis Art Center).
three of them will be older paintings but I did two new pieces for the show. There will also be some photography and some kind of work using maps I think. I don't have the names of the other participating artists yet. The centerpiece of the show is going to be an elaborate model train set that they plan to suspend from the rafters. If you've never been to the Art Center it is an old church and I'm thinking it's going to look pretty damn cool.

The show runs from July 15th to August 14th with an opening reception on Thursday July 14 from 5:30 to 7pm. I'll defintely try to be there.

Here's the two new pieces:


















"Time Transfixed (after Magritte)" oil on canvas 2010













untitled so far

Horror movies and Van Gogh

I have little to no press concerning my work, so I put together a little press release (only my second ever) for my upcoming show and got this sweet little blurb in the online version of the Portland Mercury:

"New paintings from an artist who's been haunting the local scene for a decade. His paintings fall somewhere between a horror movie backdrop and Vincent Van Gogh, playing with light on starry, shadowy nights."

I like it.