Digital Art
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One of my favorite things to do is to read the Goings On section of the About Town page in the New Yorker. In this week’s issue, I came across the word soubrette in a description of an actor’s role in an Off Broadway play. Loving new words, I looked it up and discovered that…
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I remember reading a story about Jackson Pollock going into a house where someone had one of his paintings and he insisted on making corrections to it. Apparently that may not have actually happened, but it always stuck with me because I feel the same way. Sometimes there are errors that I simply didn’t see…
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I’m having fun working on this new drawing of a youth. Is he a he? Is she a she? Are they they? Only the model can say for sure.
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Last time I saw an angel I was out on Shore Drive right by the lake. I looked over to a stretch of houses overlooking the water and she just flitted by on her bike. Wish I had a camera, but all I have is my memory to paint from.
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Just close your eyes Cool Blue Roderick says — or seems to say — “Just breathe.” The Backstory This image was featured in Character Development: Portrait Studies at the Trueblood Pop-up Gallery at Boise State University. Take a virtual tour of the show! PURCHASE ON REDBUBBLE
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Boise State produced this awesome virtual tour of my show, Character Development. You can walk down the hall, pause in front of a group of portraits, zoom in and enjoy the fantastic details. All without getting out of your pajamas! This exhibit is made possible by the Idaho Commission on the Arts and Boise State…
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Buy this tee shirt on Amazon I’m ready to get outside! My poor bike, the Bee, has cobwebs in the spokes. What is it that keeps us from doing the right thing? Ennui! What day is it today, anyway? Blursday! What’s keepin’ me from hoppin’ into the saddle? The Devil! What would the Bee say…
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The poet Amanda Gorman was so inspiring this week! She reminded me of the power of words. So, with the help of Amanda’s muse, I wrote some stories for each image in the Character Development exhibition. Farnsworth: “He’s awake to the past and dreaming of the future.” Julie in Progress: ”She’s a work in progress.…
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This exhibit is made possible by the Idaho Commission on the Arts and Boise State University.
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I’m excited to announce a new show for 2021! About 40 of my new digital art images will be displayed at the Trueblood Popup Gallery at the Student Union Building on the campus of Boise State University. The show will run from January 10, 2021 to March 14, 2021 and was curated by Fonda Portales.…
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I decided to break out of the box a little and go below the shoulders. For the past year and a half I’ve been concentrating on faces and I wanted to go beyond that and work on the whole person. This is my first in, hopefully, a long series.
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I’m kinda falling in love with AutodeskkAutodesk Sketchbook. As my internal processing of the questions “so, what are you gonna do next?,” “what kind of artist are you, anyway?,” and “is it okay to just, well, play?” chugs away I find myself going down the digital art path.
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Apparently I’m totally into this Ruby series.
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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…
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Here’s what the block looks like fully carved. … and here’s a view of some of the printed cards. Cut, carve, gouge, slice, nick, nick, nick! (That’s the sound of the linocut carving in progress.) G strings for Christmas… along with E, A, D, and B. And the dogs go, “Woooooooo!” I finished the drawing…
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I was just playing around with Photoshop the other day after re-discovering a favorite Edward Hopper painting, Automat. Here’s my version of a metamorphosis using my favorite Chicago girl, Lina Lou.
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Over the past several months I’ve really started using tools like Photoshop and Instagram to play with the images I paint. It’s a great way to while away the hours in the evening, re-coloring, changing focus, adding details, stretching, and trying out new stuff. When I re-discovered collage earlier this year, I started to think…
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I had a stroke this week and I am okay. I just wanted all my friends to know this. I really am okay. It was a scarey week but with love and support from friends, family, co-workers, the Ada County Paramedics, and the hospital staff and doctors at St. Al’s, I am now relaxing at…
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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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Each month I make a little image to decorate the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance website. The site needed something to help remind people that the content was changed at least monthly, but it was also an excuse to make word art. I finished December today, warmed by our fancy fake fireplace and with the help…
Angels on Bikes 