Digital Art

• New Year’s Resolution: learn GIMP

  February 23, 2013

  Yeah, I know there might be better resolutions to choose from, but this is what I came up with. GIMP is a freeware photo manipulation tool (like Photoshop) that has a wonderful user community of contributors like this one. It’s kind of a complicated interface and since I hate reading help files and user manuals, it’s…

  

• It all started with a simple pencil drawing

  February 4, 2012

  It all started with a simple pencil drawing…

  

• The prince of Saturday and Sunday

  June 27, 2011

  Sure, mowing the lawn is great, but it’ll never beat the feeling of completing a new varied series of thirty awesome four-color block prints!

  

• Musing on a new print

  June 18, 2011

  Today I printed 38 backgrounds.  Tomorrow I’ll print the chair, floor boards, and halo on top of the background colors and I’ll discard the ones that don’t work. I hope there’ll be about nine left to frame once all the discarding is done and the dust settles and the sound of cussing fades away and…

  

• Grant’s tomb

  March 26, 2011

  I just found out that I will not receive a grant that I applied for from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.  I was hoping to get the grant to help pay for the expenses of my upcoming show in July. One of the good things that came out of the application process, though, was my…

  

• I would cut a woodcut… would you?

  March 6, 2011

  This is my first ever three-color woodcut made especially for Amy Nack’s Leftovers print exhibit at Wingtip Press.  The image isn’t all that complicated, but it still gives a great sense of accomplishment to a guy who has never done more than two colors in a single print.

  

• Surfing for Doors

  August 18, 2010

  

• Where’d the Time Go?

  August 14, 2010

  The art blog is missing quite a chunk, I noticed.  My pals and I asked the Oracle of the Universe where the time went. Came back this reply from the OOTU: “The daggone Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance done whittled it all away, Amigo.  Now, get back to paintin’ or I’m just gonna hafta slap yuh.”

  

• Find the Newbie

  April 4, 2010

  

• No more artists underground

  March 7, 2010

  I’ve been workin’ on the railroad, alllllll the live-long daaaaaay! The railroad in this case is the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance and all the live-long day in this case is every single spare minute I’ve had, all day, every day for the last three months with no end in sight! The pros The art in this town…

  

• You say you want a Resolution

  January 2, 2010

  Last year Carol Robinson presented my show “Making Room for the Muse” in her beautiful gallery in New Orleans on the corner of Magazine Street and Napoleon Avenue.  It was good to see so many of our old friends and to make some new ones.  Melissa and I went to our favorite restaurant, Liuzza’s, and I ate the best beans and…