BLACK FLOWERS (GIFTED)
8″ x 10″ Mixed Media on Paper
Usually when I’m working on a large painting I have a smaller one going next to it at the same time. This is a smaller more simple version of some of the flower paintings I’ve been making.
Tag Archives: Mixed Media
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COILS
10″ x 10″ Mixed Media on Paper
Coils is called Coils because of the… coils I used to make parts of it. The coil part is from the base of a Christmas decoration my wife found at the Salvation Army. It was one of the many used gifts I’ve been using to create these paintings.
CLiMBiNG TReeS
IN THE TREE
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
I remember climbing trees all the time when I was younger. Testing the limits of each branch while I tried to get as close to the top as I could. If my mom saw this she probably would have had a heart attack. Don’t worry ma, now I play it safe and will just try to paint one here and there.
MoRe CiRCLeS
SIMPLE CIRCLES
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
Simple Circles is a gift to my brother Marco. It is filled with circles of paint that were created with various sizes of cardboard tubes. I see an overhead view of open paint cans in this one. How ’bout you?
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OVALS
26″ x 38″ Mixed Media on Wood
This painting is one of my favorites so far. The wood was actually a box for a 24″ x 36″ brass plaque we had sent in for a customer at work. The box was going to be trashed, but I saved it and painted it up.
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mijumi Peace T
Mixed Media on Fabric
This the other shirt that I sent down to Georgia for my little bro. My friend Bodley said on the right fabric, in the right store that these shirts could fetch around $100. That would be something, but I’ll leave the sales up to him. I feel like I’m getting robbed paying $12 for a t-shirt. I might buy mine for $11 though.
GeTTiN’ KiNDa HaiRy
HAIR PIECE
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
If you don’t know it yet, I am obsessed with hair. Hair styles, beards, wizard beards, afros, braids, locks, cornrows, fades, etc. I had to try painting something with some big hair in it and here it is.
iN WHeRe?
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.
HaPPy BiRTHDaY
RNM
20.75″ x 32″ Mixed Media on Poster
Happy Birthday to Robert Nesta Marley!
So, I find an old Bob Marley poster (pic on right) in my art studio and I’ve got no where to put it, because my office is already a Marley museum and Nicole won’t let it hang in the living room 
The most logical thing I could think to do was to draw on it. But that would be sacrilegious wouldn’t it? I turn on my ipod and get to the Reggae genre and hit shuffle. There are over 1,200 songs on my ipod in the Reggae genre, over 1,200. Which song (Marley fans) do you think pops up first? GUILTINESS by Bob Marley & The Wailers. What the??? I still couldn’t help myself and kept drawing. Thank you Mr. Marley for all the beautiful music, the fight for peace & equality and for inspiring so many people throughout the course of your short life. Your legend will endure beyond this world.
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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.
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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.