Tag Archives: Painting

LiFe DaY 6

Posted on by

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

Posted on by

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

Posted on by

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

Posted on by

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

Posted on by

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.

HaRD To FiND

Posted on by

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…

uFo

Posted on by

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?

BaNG BaNG

Posted on by

 

 

 

mijumi Gunner T

Mixed Media on Fabric

 

 

I have t-shirts I wear while I am working that I wipe excess paint on.   This one had reached its limit and was ready to be made into something else.  I trimmed a circle out of it and bought a fresh white t-shirt.  Then I hand stitched the design onto the new shirt.  Pretty cool, huh?  If you think that is cool, listen to the next part of this story.  *I got a hold of Mike Tyson’s mailing address (with some good stalker… I mean PR work) and sent him the shirt.  I stuck a note inside that asked if he would take a photo wearing my shirt (if he liked it) and email it back to me for the site.  Well, I received an email back with the picture above!  How cool is that?  * I made the t-shirt, but the Tyson part is all made up… it would make for a weird story, maybe I’ll give it a shot…

THe NeW SCHooL

Posted on by

RED SCHOOL

18″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Paper

 

 

I want to live in the sea.  I want to be a small fish and travel the world with my family and pack of good friends.  There’d be no jobs or house/yard work and we’d eat our meals along the journeys.  We’d get to see so many cool places and meet other schools from around the world.  They would tell us where they’ve been and what they’ve seen.  I want to be free in the ocean drifting around with nothing to worry about.

JuST a DooR

Posted on by

PADDLE BALL DOOR

32″ x 84″ Mixed Media on Door

This is just a door.  It has hinges and a knob just like every other door.  It is made of wood.  It opens and closes.  It keeps things out and lets things in.  It locks for protection.  It unlocks to greet.  But,  this door didn’t want to be normal.  It is showing all the other doors what its really wants to be, what it is on the inside.  It went and got some artwork done to express itself.  It’s no normal door anymore.  This door is unique.  It is strong.  It is powerful.  This door will blow your doors off.  This door is…

oNe LuCKy WiNNeR

Posted on by

THE ATTACK

16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas

 

 

There’s a battle going on.  Millions of soldiers march with fury in the pursuit of one goal.  Many will die along the way and only one will be strong enough to get beyond the outer walls of the fort.  Good luck brave soldiers.  Fight hard, be strong and remember… this is for the greater good of the world.

FLoaTiNG oN ToP

Posted on by

 

 

 

 

AROUND the SURFACE

24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Canvas

I’m beginning to believe I am obsessed with circles.  Have I said that before?  They are the perfect shape though, aren’t they?  They’re continuous and never ending.  Maybe that is why I use them so often.  I would like my work to be that way.

GiRaFFe + DooR

Posted on by

GIRAFFADOOR

24″ x 84″ Mixed Media on Door

A skinny tall door was the perfect place for this giraffe like pattern.  So, Giraffadoor was born.  I like painting on doors now.  They are a good size canvas and there are always people on Craig’s List getting rid of them.  If anyone has any extra doors layin’ around let me know.