Paint Fumes

Like a peanut butter cup

November 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Yum. David Olney + Coleridge.

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Little things

November 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’m working on small paintings for the 23rd Annual Fine Art market Show and Sale at The Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities.

Here are a couple that are finished. They’re only 6″ x 6″- about the size of a bathroom tile!

 

The Catbird Seat:

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Bee Minus Hive Mind:

BeeMinus

I need to concentrate and finish at least a dozen more.

Little melancholy with a restless mind.

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Making Halloween junk

October 20, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’ve been taking a break from working on (ostensibly) salable  art to make tasteless yard props for Halloween.

It’s been a lot of fun. I’m glad we don’t have a neighborhood association to answer to.

Here’s TJ Hooker:

TJHooker

And a corpse bride I’m still working on:

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Other stuff in the grave yard/front yard includes a modified arm that once belonged to, then fell off of a 3-d billboard. I’ve kept it in my studio for years, knowing it would come in handy some day.

Handshot

Our cat Diablo seems to approve.

Diablo

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Sadness on this cold day

October 10, 2009 · 2 Comments

My thoughts and my heart are with the Van Jacob Family.  daisies

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Every Day a Little Death

October 8, 2009 · 2 Comments

One of the best things about being a mom is watching the kids grow up to be interesting people, with their own passions and obsessions.

If you’re lucky- and I’m very lucky- they share these interests with you and expand your world.

My youngest daughter’s passion for the natural sciences has me learning things I never did (but should have) thanks to Joy Hakim’s wonderful series, “The Story of Science.”

These books manage to make the subject engaging and accessible – even to a dunderhead like me- without condescending to the reader. I highly recommend the series to parents of elementary school- aged children.

Last weekend my oldest daughter, who has me searching the bookstores for the best new graphic novels every year at Christmas gift-giving time, participated in the 24-Hour Comics Challenge.

She’s been drawing comics on a regular basis since she was ten years old. They’re irreverent, somewhat disturbing, and quite good.

I think I’ve read more comics in the past five years- due to her interest in the genre- than I had in all the previous years of my life.

My son, a talented college freshman majoring in theater,  has infected me with his newfound enthusiasm for Sondheim. So many musicals, so little time.

Thanks to the magic of Youtube, I can listen while I get on with clutter-purging my studio. Makes the odious task more bearable. Where did all this crap come from?

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Show’s over

September 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Goosechase

September 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Oil on canvas, 16″ x 16″.smallGoosechase

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Filling Every Depth, Flooding Every Shore

September 13, 2009 · 2 Comments

Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 30″.FillingEveryDepthFloodingEveryShore

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My show “Cellardoor” opens tonight.

September 11, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’m nervous, as always. I have a couple of paintings in there that I haven’t even had a chance to photograph yet.

If you’re in Denver, please come by and take a look. It will be happening here.

One of my former professors, Craig Marshall Smith, had an essay published in the Denver Post recently titled “Doomed to Be an Artist.” It’s a good read. You can find it here.

His expression, “hearts on the walls” makes me reflect on why I always feel so vulnerable at my own openings.

My show will close on Sunday September 27th at 5 PM.

Cheers.

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Queen Mab and the Little Death

September 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Oil on canvas, 40″ x 40″

queen Mab

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