2014
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The “Four Eyes: An Optical Collusion” exhibition opened tonight. This is the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance’s latest show and the theme is all about celebrating collaborations. Lauren and I painted this for the show. You can see it at the offices of Boise State Public Radio, 200 E. Parkcenter, Boise, Idaho from June 6 through…
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This is the painting that’s been on my easel for the past two weeks. The first phase was all black and white and Payne’s Gray. Now I’m adding color through glazes. It’s very slow going, very meditative, and tons of fun, actually. This technique was used over 500 years ago and I’m not quite sure…
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Every weekend, I take Sirius to the Dutch Bros. drive through and get treats for everyone in the household. Here are the in process pictures of the newest houseghost painting with her breve latte. (Some have been Instagrammed, so that means I played around with the filters and effects.)
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For the upcoming “Four Eyes” show, Lauren T. Kistner and I collaborated on a painting. A couple weeks ago we started brainstorming, which escalated to exchanging emails and lists of possible approaches, and finally got to The Moment of Truth in the studio. A blank white canvas awaited. After more talking and not painting, Lauren…
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This is Ruby, the muse in my studio. I painted her way back when and she’s been watching over things. On the back of the painting is Li’l Buck. Buck’s keepin’ a eye out fer thangs.
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This is how it happens sometimes. They just appear. We don’t know how long they are going to stay. We don’t know what they want. Well, we do have a pretty good guess.
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My buddy René Magritte painted a pipe and underneath it wrote: Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (This is not a pipe.) In that spirit, this is my newest painting in progress. This is not a House Ghost.
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Back in the studio today, working on a painting of a bike, of all things. It’s called Caravaggio’s bike because: I met a guy in college who after 3 years of so-so figure drawings adopted a renaissance glazing technique and his work suddenly blew me away. I’m drawn to that technique now. ‘Bout time. Maybe…
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Today Melissa and I worked together on an image for the next exhibit for the artists’ alliance. The show’s called “Four Eyes: An Optical Collusion” and requires each participant to work with another. Here’s what we came up with to help get the word out for the show:
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Over the last 4 weeks, I’ve been having a high ol’ time remaking the website for the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance. I immersed myself into the project and learned a ton about WordPress and a wonderful theme called Salient. You can view the new website here, but it hasn’t really “gone live” yet. That’ll happen…
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I fell off my bike painting cycle, but jumped right back on. I dream of making a thousand sweet paintings of bicycles, so getting unsaddled every now and then comes with the territory.
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This little painting has special powers.
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The next show by the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance is called “Metamorphosis,” opening in March. I haven’t ever made a triptych and I haven’t told a story in my work in years. So, I thought I’d tackle both and make one last collage before returning to painting. This piece focuses pretty obviously on spirituality. Well,…
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Why do I paint doors? Long answer: they are rectangles so they make a nice, solid composition on a rectangular or square canvas, they are a perfect symbol with lots of meaning for me (passages, portals, thresholds, opportunity, and more), and because one of my formative moments in art school was listening to Dr. Walter…
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I’m kinda gettin’ into the collage thing. It could be just a phase, but I have found it to be a great way — on so many levels — to spend time in the studio. Putting together a collage makes me think differently and faster about composition because it’s so easy to change the balance…
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I’m just having a great time working on collages. It started with wanting to do something fun, and I revived the Princess Feather Hat image. When my daughter Lina was visiting over Christmas, she and I made collages together and I finished the second Princess F.H. This weekend I worked on the third in the…
Angels on Bikes 