2015

• Ha, ha! You said underpaints

  May 2, 2015

  After a 2-month break on this painting for a soul-inspiring trip to New Orleans, this painting is now underway. Again. Part of my process is that just when I think I’m finished, I go back in to fix something or make it better. Just a quick little change, I tell myself. Shouldn’t take more than…

  

• Scullery digging

  April 19, 2015

  I recently visited my dad and Caci in Florida and took this photo. I painted this several years ago when I was doing mostly figures. After the figures the easels, windows, doors, and floors took over for a long while. Now, I’m circling back around and, as you may have noticed, re-introducing figures into the…

  

• Waiting in the wings

  April 17, 2015

  This painting came out of a conversation between Melissa, Carol Robinson, and me. Collaboration is a wonderful thing!    

  

• This coffee drinker has a certain je ne sais quoi

  April 7, 2015

  I’m a fan of cinemagraphs. Especially the ones that I don’t know are animated and then surprise me with their movement.

  

• Emergence Alley

  April 5, 2015

  I used Photoshop to combine Jo the Houseghost with Bike Alley in the Fall.

  

• Realized houseghost

  March 28, 2015

  Here’s what a houseghost might look like in your home.            

  

• Altered easel ad infinitum

  March 14, 2015

  Recipe: start with a painting of an easel called “The Forbidden Red Wing,” clear the negative space, create your text path, cogitate for a spell, wiki till you find that perfect something and obfuscate with a liberal dose of latin. Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cujus fidei merces est videre quod credis. — St.…

  

• I dream of Milan

  March 13, 2015

  Here’s a new painting named for our neighborhood in New Orleans between Baronne and Dryades.

  

• Li’l Minnie

  March 1, 2015

  Here’s Minnie, the first painting to arrive at the Nola studio.  

  

• Nola Studio

  February 25, 2015

  I’ve temporarily relocated my studio to New Orleans. And after a few small repairs back in le Boise, my trusty old French easel has now re-entered the fray. Time to get busy. Seven Years Later Those trips to New Orleans played out on multiple levels. The most reality-based level was the experience of being in…

  

• New painting coming into view

  February 7, 2015

  I just thought I’d give you a peek into the studio. Here’s what I’ve been working on over the past few weeks.

  

• Memorial chairs

  January 4, 2015

  I finished painting these two chairs for a friend.  

  

• Make art

  January 4, 2015

  Alyson Stanfield says “If you don’t make art, you have nothing to market.” Melissa read this sentence in Alyson’s blog and observed that all the letters in make art are in the word market. She then suggested we create an animated GIF to illustrate the idea and so I banged my head against The Photoshop…