GeT FuNKy

FUNKY TILE FLOOR

48″ x 96″ Mixed Media on Wood

 

This is the largest painting I have made so far.  The more I paint the more I enjoy working on larger scale pieces.  They do take way more time and probably don’t suit what I’m trying to accomplish, but I can’t get enough.  I guess it’s a win win either way.

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.

MJT2

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.

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.

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.

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.