Selfportrait

Selfportrait
4.1.2018
12" x 9"
Conté crayon on paper

Three 'I's

Three 'I's    acrylic on canvas    10" x 10"    2010 (?)

One from earlier days. I really got going there for a while, proud of these (will post another soon), surprised I didn't get them up before.  Apologies for the crappy photo, it's my flip phone!

Time To Surf

Time To Surf  2017  mixed media on paper  9" x 12"

Existentially yours,

TV Watcher

TV Watcher   6/2017   oil on canvas   20" x 16"

Me, as I usually was, then.

Earth Healing 4

Earth Healing 4   8/2017  oil on canvas  30" x 24"

Finally this is online.  The developing idea of the Earth Healing series is, I will do ~24 of them, and hang them in a room encircling the viewer, about 6-8" between them. The viewer will become the Solar Entity, watching the Earth revolving around him/her.  I will call it Earth Orbit Room (or Solar Healing room? the healing will emanate from you). Serial, interactive, installation art, yuck! Me and my big ideas..

VENUS series: No. 1

VENUS: Olympus/Night  2017  oil on canvas  20" x 16"

This is the first picture of the VENUS series, don't know why I started but I'm determined to finish it; a series is kind of a trap. You can only exhibit it once, if someone buys a picture integral to the concept: like this one.

Why Venus? She rules my life and yours; every man wants her and every woman wants to be her. Nice line for a perfume, but I'm a painter. I've got about four of this series in progress and am waiting for more ideas. The concept such as it is, is Venus' place into my life in this century (how a gallerist would find that interesting I don't know). 'Birth' takes place in my childhood bedroom, sort of, but I'm leery of making jokes on the time/space dichotomies.

Venus is here summiting Mount Olympus in the middle of the night. This is the one canvas in my life where the initial picture in my mind of what it could look like, at the end it happened! I gave up half way through, you can't imagine my surprise. Am I an artist?

Woman at the Sea

Woman at the Sea   5/2016   8" x 10"   oil on canvas

I really didn't try to make this. It was an abstract painting, she just showed up.

This is the first painting I made where I really thought, 'this is Art', as opposed to 'artistic'. Maybe the 1000th, but this time, there was 'meaning'.

I've been 'final' touching up some paintings from years past, more to come. 

Noelle Ascending

A dear friend has made a transition and now rises, with wings. Note: she has passed on since I painted this. RIP dear one.


Noelle Ascending    20" x 16"    oil on canvas    5.27.2017