one character

one million becomes one character
oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches

painted over one million which used to be vertical or upright

how to massage a cake

Originally a vertical painting (bottom right, last painted in October 2009), turning it on its side (bottom left) for a change.
How it ended up today:

Show at Blackfish Gallery, Dec 2010

Recent paintings at Blackfish
Interviewed by Kanetaka Ikeda

figurative to abstract

Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches. Mostly oil on camvas, a bit of Sharpie marks toward bottom.
On the left is the after with oil impasto totally abstract and on the right before it got painted over. Figurative, much easier to latch on to. At least I have a picture of the piece before it became abstract. I can see why abstracts have a much smaller audience.

are we there yet?

After some more touch-ups this may be it for this painting, at least for today

Lower left-- after about an hour or so of painting, all covered except for face of standing figure and eyes of figure on the left... Like the texture, the oil impasto, but doesn't quite jell as the original does. May have another go at it... cover the whole thing?

Lower right-- before I started painting it over, oil sketch in 2009

dog afternoon

Repainting one of 4 small sketches from a 2009 live model session. Wanted to keep the dog, figures and Sharpie pen doodles... just to see what happens. Here's the after:

And the before:

sitter

My first painting since installing my show at Blackfish over a week ago. Oil on canvas, 10x8 inches. What I like about small paintings is they don’t take much space and can be hung just about anywhere. And they can be painted fast. For now, call this 'Sitter'.

 

How it looked before I painted it today. It was a quick oil sketch done at a live model session last year.

Installation views at Blackfish Gallery, December 2010

Installation and panoramic views
Dec 2010, Blackfish Gallery
Pictures of individual paintings in my Blackfish page
Closeup pictures of escutcheon paintings

six degrees

oil on escutcheons paintings take installation to a lower level

oil on wood & frame

Oil on wood & frame. Bad cold painting session #2.

the persistence of desire

Oil on canvas. Continuing a painting from late August 'Centers of something'.

show coming up

Showing in 2 weeks with my old friend Kanetaka Ikeda at Blackfish Gallery. Check out his blog.

PADA cover 'Terra Illumina'

collateral fun

2 more abstracts, oil & sharpie on canvas
'collateral fun' and 'twinkle'

iNipples

Possible titles: Zigzag Creek and iNipples
Abstract paintings, oil & sharpie on canvas, 11x14 inches
First attempt with FingerLite Piano app

east & west

oil & other media on canvas

touch up

oil & sharpie on wood

more amore

painting over an old painting
oil on linen

doggone it

latest painting

gogol & godot

2 small paintings, 14 x 11 inches, oil & sharpie on canvas
possible titles 'gogol' & 'godot'

tig, a painting

oil & strapping tape on canvas
taking a 1984 painting into 2010
possible title: 'the internet is a godsend'

'here to play'

oil, sharpie on canvas & wood
using reelmoments iphone app

terra illumina v2

Replaced Louis Armstrong song with one by Torley Wong.
Oil on canvas.

one step forward

one step forward... or, one step closer..
new oil paint & sharpie on old painting

yes kangaroo

'yes kangaroo' painting in progress or is it done?
oil, sharpie, mixed media, wood, canvas
iphone video edited in imovie app

oil on steel

oil, enamel on welded steel
welded and painted originally in 1998

redoing a small painting

oil and sharpie on wood,
using iphone 4

recent stuff

recent paintings, walk through using iphone 4 camera

virtual

possible title: 'virtual reality'
oil on canvas, 54.5 x 41 inches

centers of something

calling this any of the following: 'centers of gravity', 'centers of levity', 'centers of something', or just 'centers'
oil on canvas, 54.5 x 41 inches

east & west

'East & west'
Oil and mixed media. Wood divides the painting vertically in the middle with plywood triangles top and bottom. There used to be (still underneath all the paint) masking tape running horizontally across the painting.
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