Painting
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Over the past couple weeks I’ve been thinking of the sound byte that starts the TED radio hour on NPR. There are several snippets from various TED talks in the intro, and one of them is Regina Dugan talking about her passion for pushing the boundaries of flight. She says, “We’ve had to believe in…
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Nobody’s really sure where they come from. Probably Portland. Or Boise’s North End.
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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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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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My painting Florence Doors made its debut last night in the Foray III exhibition, the new show put on by the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance. The show runs through February 20, 2014. This painting appeared in an earlier form at the Thresholds show two years ago, but I put it back on the easel and…
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I took an image of a painting from several years ago and worked it over a bit.
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A tradition at our house is to make Christmas gifts by hand. I came across this composite image of nine tiny little door paintings I painted a couple years ago. Good inspiration for this year’s gifts.
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Here’s my first “angel” painting that I completed a while back. It was one of those days when I was painting and wiping away and painting and wiping away…. my typical, frustrating approach to working. I wiped away the gown but the paint came off only partially. It was just one of those moments when…
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One of the cool things that an image editor app like GIMP or Photoshop does is to give me a chance to view a painting in process with new changes, new lighting, new effects, and a ton of other crazy stuff. In some cases — in the best of cases — I get an idea…
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This little painting is almost done.
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This piece was painted to help raise funds for Boise Contemporary Theater and for their production of Red, by John Logan.
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Bike Alley in the Fall, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches This piece is based on the original Bike Alley that was the announcement image for Coming Into View earlier this year at the Carol Robinson Gallery. This bad boy shipped off to Carol this week to be included in the annual Art for…
Angels on Bikes 