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SURF RIDER

11″ x 15″ Pen & Primacolors on Watercolor Paper

 

 

“…there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove the nine to five, shove the rules… we’re just going to follow our hearts, treat each other well, eat well and enjoy the ocean. It was not for money and it wasn’t for fame… that’s what we’re gonna do… purely because that’s what our hearts want to do. That was amazing.”  -Jim Banks (quote from the Switch-foot book)

eVeRYoNe SeeS iT

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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 WouLD Go

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EDDIE AIKAU

24″ x 36″ Mixed Media Metal

Eddie Aikau (May 4, 1946-March 17, 1978)

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…

THeRe WaS NoTHiNG

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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 DaY 7

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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 DaY 6

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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 DaY 5

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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 DaY 4

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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 DaY 3

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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?

LiFe DaY 2

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LIFE BEGINS

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

I bought a throw back box of LIFE cereal for this one.  That’s right, they made a box with the old LIFE logo font, a throw back.  Anyways, let me try and get a little philosophical.  This painting represents human life.  It’s like looking down onto the sidewalk from a skyscraper at a crosswalk in Tokyo.  Life is moving all around, faster than you know it can.  You see all kinds of life scrambling about.  Maybe you notice… okay that’s enough.  It’s just a painting… what you take from it is up to you.

LiFe DaY 1

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LIFE IS HAZEY

11″ x 15″ Pen & Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper

 

 

We only get one while we’re here and we can’t even remember most of the beginning parts.  What was I thinking about when I was in those first few years?  How were all of these things around me shaping the person I am today?  There are such high hopes for you when you are brand new.  Did my mother know that when she gave me a piece of paper and a box of crayons that it would turn into this?

HaRD To FiND

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DO YOU SEE IT

18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper

 

 

There’s really nothing in this painting to find, is there?  Unless you look hard enough for it.  Some people will see it and others won’t.  Like those magic eye pictures.  Can you see it?  If you can guess what it is… you win.  There’s nothing I swear.  Well maybe…

LaNDiNG HeRe

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HELIPAD

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

I have a huge tree in my front yard that loves to make a mess.  It dropped all of these helicopters on my driveway.  Maybe they were a gift though.  Maybe the tree had been watching me over the past few months out in the driveway and studio painting.  It must have wanted to take part in the project.  Thanks buddy.

uFo

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ALIEN GRAFITTI

22″ x 28″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

They have to be out there somewhere, who ever they are.  I should know.  I was just about finished with this painting and woke up the next day to find these lime green markings on it.  I know I locked up the studio the night before.  What are they trying to say?  Is this their way of communicating?

STaTe oF My MiND

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CALMER THAN YOU ARE

11″ x 15″ Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper

 

 

What is everyone so worried about?  Life?  Life goes on and on and on and…  Think about the hardest part of your day today and realize it isn’t really that hard at all.  Someone out there has got it way worse than you do.  People are dying of hunger while others honk their horns in line at the drive-thru because the service isn’t fast enough.  Back off the horn and calm down a little.  Calm is a state of mind, the state of my mine.