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something Walsh said lit a fire under me and after an additional hour or so, this thing is as finished as it will ever be. to be honest i'm glad to be done with it
16x20'' O/C
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after reading "Girl with the Pearl Earring" i was forced to reconsider my attitude toward painting those closest to me (mainly this means ''wife de jour''). the character of Vermeer was quoted as having articulated, exactly as i had, why he never painted his wife. prior to this the only painted portrait i've done of a wife was posthumous : i have decided to repent of that mindset and allow Dona [current wife] to be part of ''that world''
16x20'' O/C
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while not my favorite painting style (to emulate), i do love Vincent's later paintings
from a recent news story :
"The two paintings, and another van Gogh portrait of Reid, are included in an exhibition of the Dutch painter's works that opened recently at Edinburgh's Dean Gallery, part of the National Galleries of Scotland
Van Gogh's two portraits of Alexander Reid, "They were taken as twins and these portraits were originally catalogued as self-portraits (of van Gogh)"
The first portrait is now at the art museum of the University of Oklahoma in the United States, while the second is in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum"
8x8'' oil on canvas panel, fifteen minute quick study
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i have been thinking about painting one of my big Conch shells, and wondering how i'd get the colors right ... i guess this was an unconscious practice piece
11x14'' oil on canvas panel
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anyone who's suffered through my endless photos of the tarmac and backyard at my house knows the landscape - this is a quick alla prima study of my favorite place on Earth (no, not DizneLand)
8x8'' oil on canvas panel
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painted light into a thin layer of oily ivory black
9x12'' O/C
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a quick study of a simple idea that's been kicking around for a while now
8x8'' oil on canvas panel
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girlie who looks like wife #1 - in Cardinal order, that is
based on a book cover i saw a few weeks ago - as i was walking past her display she captured my attention
11x14'' oil on canvas
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oil sketch, inspired by my interest in politics, persuasion, influence, brain washing, propaganda, as well as sales and marketing
11x14'' oil on canvas panel
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bird as God, looking out over city from rooftop
12x16'' oil on canvas panel
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my wettest, wildest Republican Dream : Burns-Bush 2008-20??
Fox lawyers have explained it to me a few times, but the upshot is that while Matt created the Burns character entirely based on my life story, he needn't pay me any kind of royalties, as Burns is technically a ''fictional character''
8x8'' oil on canvas panel
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Billions of Happy customers can't be wrong
11x14'' oil on canvas over panel
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on the morning of 7.1.2006 i woke to find a discarded bike leaning against the guy-wire of the pole on our property line - someone was having trouble with the chain, and simply left it. eventually, after a few days, the timid college boys in a run-down house at the end of the street finally found the courage to claim it, and is lay on their front yard for a few weeks with no one to fix it. today i finally got around to painting it
stolen or borrowed is a matter for the courts, but the source of the bike (finally turned over to the trashmen) remains a mystery. lacking a city registration sticker i was unable to trace the owner
6.5x4.75'' oil on unmounted canvas
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recetly, when i got up to get a drink of water in the middle of the night, the sound of chanting was coming from the kitchen. deciding to investigate, i found my 30c Pillsbury Doughboy was up, late at night, practicing some form of primitive ritual
nominal 10x11'' oil on fabric over masonite panel
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today i came up with a demented game (no, not the one where three men are locked in a steel ball cage and slowly lowered into scalding water until only one survivor remains) where the artist places an unusual pictorial element on the canvas and then adds another, and another, making adjustments as needed until the finished composition emerges organically. i guess it's a kind-of ''solitary creativity chicken''
after placing the torso (neck to waist) in a corner of the canvas i toyed for hours with what to do next - how to make sense of the fact that the body is blocked from view below the waist (she almost became a tank commander) until finally the idea of a falling slip obscuring the lower half of her form came to me. this required adding the lower arm, which may be a violation of the rules (like any good game the rules will emerge and be refined as play progresses)
8x10'' oil on canvas panel
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full title : ''the day Michael Eisner dropped a Mickey-Ton bomb in Europe'' - or - ''Euro Disney Grand Opening, 1992''
5x7'' oil on canvas panel
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a friend on Flickr talks tenderly about his wife, Genevieve, in a way that takes me back to my early days with Dawn
8x8'' oil on canvas panel
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today's excursion to dysfunction junction
as an added benefit, we can now strap magnets to Botticelli's dead body and generate free electricity !
11x14'' oil on stretched canvas
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the best part of painting pomegranate is having the fruit around for later
8x8'' oil on canvas panel
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