Backyard Art

A collaboration based on a photo of Venice, now resting on a Berkeley fence. The unfinished space turned into a boat (let's consider that a conceptual choice).

Venice Canal, 2001

Guest room art

Doesn't have to be the most complicated of designs to please the guests, now does it? Like the poppies, but more on that later...........

trompette de la mort

**Update: still not finished, but really is anything EVER really finished? Oh, well. Looks at least more like a real painting now. [26 Dec 2011]

Still a very early work in progress, put this idea to canvas in about an hour. Although not at all the vision in my head, I'm liking where this ended up going. The crow is a longtime obsession which I'm looking forward to painting out in full. The idea of a stiff Victorian trained rabbit (but at all the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland) has been rolling around in my head for some time. 

The sketch below is done in chalk and charcoal.  

 

Oh, the possibilities

Not sure where this idea is going, but getting into the greys and sepias. It's all about the texture and the layers. More to come...

Buried deep in the hard drive...

Originally an idea that grew out of a very small (8x10) painting I did late at night in 2001, it then appeared again as inspiration for a series of monoprints (screen printing) that were sold in 2004. The title of the series was "Foresight/For Sight" with one image depicting abstract arrows and the other showing a eye motif very similar to this painting.

This painting circa 2003/2004 was a piece I was working on that started as a commission. It was acrylic on wood panel, roughly 24 x 60 inches. It was one of a group of three options that didn't quite make the final pick. Afterwards it went to a 1960's mod bungalow refurb in old town Scottsdale.

I found this picture searching for seemingly long lost pictures of a Los Angeles photography project, but in the process found a bunch of gems. There will definitely be more treasures from the vault!

FIRST full scale painting

This is the first large-format painting I ever made using left over wood from my dad. It hangs in his backyard on the fence as "garden art."

Triptych, acrylic on wood panels, 36 x 36 inches, 2001.

Before & After

I've always thought of lilies as sort of a "starting over" flower. They emerge in the the spring and bloom and rebloom seemingly over and over. Especially white lilies, so pure and fresh. They are the Easter flower as they stand for Mary's purity and loyalty and are a symbol of the resurrection. Knowing these odd facts are pretty much a moot point though because at the end of the day, they are beautiful and happy and hopefully make a good housewarming gift. For Cindy, for starting over.

dos mas

Finishing up a project from months ago and beginning to color block for new work.

a landscape

the assignment: a landscape
the result: a robot

...but somewhere beyond the mustard gas cloud, a landscape exists.
i swear...

passed him on to nico to take care of, so we'll consider him finished.