PATTERNS WILL RUN
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
This painting started out in typical mijumi fashion. Circle, circle, dot, dot and a few splashes here and there. But I didn’t like the end result. I took a thin piece of wood and dragged it across the painting while it was still wet. Then added in some more circles and lines. Sometimes you have to change what you’ve made to make something better.
C U IN THE STORM
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
For some reason some of my paintings remind me of storms. Snow storms or rain storms either gently falling flakes or with drops fiercely exploding. I liked the colors in the Radiating Beauty painting and got pretty good feed back so, I wanted to try something different with similar colors. I used some half circle tubes in this one. That’s where the C and U come from. The storm is coming…
INTO THE 80’s
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Wood
Gremlins, Goonies & Ghostbusters. Growing Pains, Punky Brewster & Voltron. Hammer Pants, tight rolled jeans & Jams shorts. Samba Classics, white high-top sneakers & Patrick Ewings. Getting a flat-top with a fade, lines on the sides & shaving the Nike flight symbol into the back of my head. Those were the 80’s for me. What were yours…?
RED T PEOPLE
14″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Fabric
This piece is from my original “smock” that I began painting in for the year-long project. I was going to toss is, but saw something in it that I thought was cool. People marching. I don’t know what they are marching for or where they are going. Are they freedom fighters or revolutionaries? Maybe it’s an exercise class? I don’t know, but I know they are there and have had my back all along as this thing has gathered steam and rolls on.
THE RIPPLE
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on PVC
L’effet d’ondulation est un terme qui est utilisé décrire une situation où, comme les ondulations jamais grandissantes à travers l’eau quand un objet est tombé dans lui, un effet d’un état initial peut être suivi en dehors cumulatifement. I thought that this looked nicer in French. Here is the translation.
PLAID COW
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
We were driving cross-country and were in the middle of no where and saw it. There it was standing in a field all alone and away from the others. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There is no way this is real. How the… what the… Have you ever heard of this before? No! One of us googled it, plaid cow, but there was nothing. There was nothing online about it, there was nobody around to ask. There was just the strange cow all alone in the field.
PLANT N SEED
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media on Foam Board
The chicken or the egg? The Plant or the seed? In Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as other Dharmic religions, there is the belief of the wheel of time which regards time as cyclical and with repeating ages. Their idea of time gives a different answer to the question of “who is first.” The concept of eternal return, which indicates that there is repetition of time. The assumption is that time is eternally repetitive, and therefore, there is no “first” in eternity; there is no creation. The answer then becomes: neither the egg/seed nor the chicken/plant is first. There is no “first” in a cyclical view of time. Chicken or the Egg
RADIATING BEAUTY (SOLD)
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Omega Bond
When I see you the world stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There’s nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops and it is a beautiful place and there is only you. Just you, and my eyes staring at you. – James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
EDDIE AIKAU
24″ x 36″ Mixed Media Metal
There are surf stars and there are surf stars. Some become great. A few become heroes. Most fade into obscurity. Every now and then, a surfer comes along who transcends the desires, dreams and expectations of others. And his very life becomes a myth. Eddie Aikau is one. Perhaps because he embodies the twin themes — the stoke and the tragedy — of Hawaiians, the people who gave surfing to the world and took so little in return. click for more…
IN THE BEGINNING
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper
What was it like before highways? Before drive through food lines? Before money? How did we go from living off the land to living on the couch? Where are all of our gardens? Our outdoor fun? Why are some people’s phones more important than their personalities? Where are we headed? Is it the right direction? What was the world like in the beginning? What were we before all of this?
LIFE METAL
10″ x 15″ Mixed Media on Metal
This week has been a good one. I’m very happy with the way the LIFE logo art has come out. The show in Manchester was great. There was a ton of interest in the Peacock painting at the event and there’s only a few more weeks until the halfway point. I was asked by someone at the event this week, – so how is life ? I thought for a second, – my life? my life is great. I could see that it made him happy to see me happy. I just met him that day, but I could tell he was genuinely happy to hear that. There are plenty of reasons to get down on yourself at times, but there are so many more reasons to enjoy your life. You just have to find them.
LIFE FLOWERS
36″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Canvas
We grow. We learn. We evolve. Our surroundings build us up. People influence us from every direction. Maybe one day in the art museum with mom and dad a three year old child sees a painting and is captivated by it. The child doesn’t know it at the time, but that painting will affect the course of the rest of their life. He/she just has this love for art that is rooted deep inside. They need to paint. To create. To express. The world needs to see it. They have to have it and no one really knows why, but they know something good when they see it. It must be theirs. It must be…
LIFE IS BACKWARDS
18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper
Life can be backwards at times. Bad things happen to good people. People who are trying to live within the rules of the systems that have been established to “help” them. Just when things are going great…POW!… a set back. The rich get richer and just want more. People go hungry, but our grocery stores throw out food everyday. People buy purses and jeans that cost hundreds of dollars, yet can’t seem to find some change to help someone down on their luck. There are wars for peace. Try to be good. Try to help out where and when you can. We are all here together. The human family.
LIFE JELLIES
16″ x 22″ Mixed Media on Canvas
Some of us just float around in this world like a bunch of jelly fish in the ocean. Going with the flow. Following the currents. Staying current in a world that is forever changing around us. Until one day when something stumbles upon us. It bumps into us. Crashes. Disturbs. BZZZZ. Bring a sting that no one will forget. A sting, a poem, a verse, a painting, a picture, a song, an idea, a dream, a revolution… a… Time to stop floating… Don’t be forgotten…
LIFE CYCLE
24″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
Is it pre-determined? Is it all a matter of chance? Does everything happen for a reason? Why do the good ones have to die young? He lived to be 100 years old and ate oatmeal everyday. She was only 13 and had the whole world ahead of her. I can’t believe he’s gone. It seems like only yesterday. Do we all have our own life cycles? Is it written? Can we break the cycle? Can we change the future?