I KNOW I SAW 1 IN THERE
18″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Acrylic
When I look at this painting I just feel like I should be searching for something in it. Like it is a Where’s Waldo book or something. Maybe I should have hid him in there. Maybe I did… hmmm.
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WHaT uP BiRCHeS
BIRCHES
12″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Canvas
I was in the Dollar Tree the other day looking for things to use as painting tools when I came across this shape. It’s a triangle with a circle cut out of it and is made of wax. They were selling it as a ring crayon for kids. You slide the ring on your finger and then you can draw with it. I’m using it here to create the trunks of trees for my small forrest.
O O . . NoW u GoT uR
COOTIE SHOTS
8.5″ x 10″ Mixed Media on Paper
This paper actually started out as a way for me to get the left over paint off of the tools I was using to paint something else. Then it started to look kind of cool. Then it started to look kind of boring. Now it looks kind of… like…
X-ed ouT
CROSSED OUT
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Acrylic
Crossed Out was just about finished drying up when I started making X shapes and mashing up the paint a little. I still wanted to add more detail to this one, but I liked the way it fades up from a mosh pit of paint into the X patterns. I guess I can always come back to it if I really want to.
WHeRe THe SKy STaRTS
HORIZON
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
My favorite part of this painting are all of the dots that cover it. At first there were zero dots and just the reds and blues. Then I found a board with holes in it, laid it over the panel and spray painted in some light yellow dots. Still not enough. So, I covered it with a bunch of white dots and started to like it a lot more. I wanted to put more, but didn’t want to get too carried away.
oN THe SiDe
SIDEWAYS SUNFLOWERS
48″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Canvas
I like to have patterns in my work as you can tell, but I also like to have a little chaos too. This is one of my favorite examples of those two things brought together on one canvas. They were regular sunflowers, but that name just didn’t have the same ring to it. So, I turned the canvas to the right and now we have Sideways Sunflowers.
JuST oNe
ONE ORANGE
36″ x 60″ Mixed Media on Wood
It’s funny to me when I finally figure out when a painting is finished. I could have stopped a few times (and did) and it would have looked alright, but I wanted more than alright. Sometimes I want to make something that has the viewer ask why. Why did he put that orange spot there? The orange spot was just the thing I needed to call this one done.
a TouCH oF RaSTa
RASTA HEMP & PAINT
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Canvas
If you know me really well then you know I am obsessed with Bob Marley and anything Rastafari. Rasta Hemp & Paint is a mix of hemp wound around canvas and paint. I wanted to add a physical texture for this piece before I applied the paint to it. I like things with an organic or natural look to them. Maybe painting on burlap will be my next Rasta piece.
SPReaD ‘eM
PEACOCK
48″ x 60″ Mixed Media on Canvas
One time in Hawaii at the Waimea Falls Park I had Nicole crouch down to take a picture with a peacock. Well the peacock wasn’t really into it, let out a shriek and proceeded to chase her. We have since revisited the park and I wanted a new picture. Nicole was not involved for obvious reasons. I must have looked pretty good to him, because he spread his feathers just long enough for a few shots. This painting is based off of one of those shots.
THe FReSHNeSS
3 LITERS OF FORKS & LYSOL
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media on Canvas
Three liters of what? Take a closer look and you’ll figure out why I gave it this name. Light blue = bottom of a soda bottle. Brown = a fork. Gray = bottom of an egg carton. Red = top of Lysol can. I like using the not so ordinary tools to paint with. It lets me come up with some not so ordinary names for my work.
CHoP CHoP
CHOPPED GRAFFITI
18″ x 36″ Aerosol on Corrugated Plastic
After laying down my colors with spray paint there was something I did not like about my picture. So, while it was still wet I started “chopping” at it with the side of a board to add some lines to it. There are also texture lines from the corrugated plastic which I think are a cool effect.
WHiTe ouT
ALL WHITE
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Omega Bond
The absence of color does not equal the absence of art. I’m sure you will find a blank canvas in a number of art museums and they are deemed to be great works of art. Who am I to judge? I think those artists could have put a little more effort into it though. That is why I tried my hand at an all white piece. Move over Mr. Combs, this is the new White Party.
WRoNG WaY
AGAINST THE CURRENT TRIPTYCH
(3) 18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
They all look the same, but they’re not. This is my first shot at a triptych. Not too bad, but I’ve got some ideas for something different. Do you have any?
X-RaY
SKELOFLOWERS (SOLD)
24″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
Like my earlier post of Explosive Flower Field, Skeloflowers is a mini fireworks show mixed with flowers. The white reminds me of a skeleton or an x-ray. Originally there was no white paint on this and I was going to sell it that way, but it was not finished in my mind. I couldn’t do it. Now that it is finished I think it is ready for it’s new home.
u-G-L-y
UGLY
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Canvas
U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi, you ugly, what what, you ugly. I could not get this out of my head while I was painting this. I was going for ugly, really ugly. I think I nailed it, but I kinda like it though. Is it really ugly? What do you think?