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Osage House D

Bus Stop Dream

2019

12 3/4" X 14 5/8"

Acrylic and Markers on Newspaper Ads on Panel

$200.00

STUDIO SALE!!!

First Seven Paintings of My Studio Sale Summer 2023

All prices include shipping, lower 48 states only

Sorry, I currently can not ship internationally  

 

New Found Drugstore Happiness

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints on MDF Panel on Custom Fir Cradle

14 1/4" X 15 1/2"

2014 

$300.00

(1st started and completed painting from my studio at the Katz Drugstore in KCMO)

Untitled

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints on Panel with a Custom Cradle

11 1/2" X 11 3/4"

2013

$200.00

 Untitled

 

Various Acrylic and Oil Paints on MDF Panel on Custom Poplar Cradle

 

15" X 16"

 

2015

 

$300.00

Russian Bathhouse

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints on Panel on Custom Cradle

8" X 11 7/16"

2013

$150.00

Corvette Cornfields

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints on Poplar Panel with Custom Cradle

7" X 10 7/8"

2013

$150.00

Mercury Reflecting

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints on MDF Panel on Custom Cradle

8 1/2" X 8 1/2"

2013

$150.00

 Leisure Seekers

Various Acrylic & Oil Paints, Paint Markers on Panel on Custom Cradle

8 3/8" X 7 15/16"

2013

$150.00

Of Course I'm Late for the November Post!!!!

So yeah I'm a couple of days late it happens, LOL!!!

                                        Boulevardier                         Dirty Fingers from sanding Paintings

My drink for the month of October was the Boulevardier, and I have been sanding the surface of a bunch of paintings. The end results with the discoloration of my fingers and hands. I'm digging the new paintings they are very much in progress & I'm working on some new projections as well as using some flocking on these beauties.

Here are a couple of terrible fotos.

So Drawing class is going well
So here is a pic of a bunch of tree drawings from October!

Fat February

Okay! Month two of 2015 is going slow, so slow that I am posting this on the first day of March.  I am hoping my students will be finished with their first project by the end of the month, so they can get started on project 2 and 3. My studio is plugging along with nothing in the works as far as a show.  Generating future plans for future paintings. I am really just building things that are of an interest to myself. I have been cutting more vinyl stencils so far this year and am happy with the outcomes right now. I have decided that the size of the paintings I have been making could get a little bit bigger, the smallest dimension should be fifteen inches.  

 New shape panels

Size varies

These are going to start to develop into something more meaningful than just random shapes. I am researching places I have lived over my life and the boundaries that are meaningful within.  But until I have the research done on these I am just going to have fun with shapes.  

Here's the 'works in progress' wall, really liking what's going on but really ready to move to the next phase with some oil paint.  Would really like to find somewhere to show this body of work in the future.  Also I have been making some new panels and have been really working on the craft part of it.  Plugs for screw holes, maybe some lap joints, and I really want to give dovetailing a try both by hand and with a router.

I'm really into ponchos right now. Just to catch you up on my graduate school status, here are the results so far; two schools have said no, one has said I am #2 on the wait list and I have not heard from the other two, which makes me feel like I may be on their wait lists as well. 

Good Thoughts People, thanks.  

First Post of 2015 THE JANUARY POST

New Found Drugstore Happiness

Mixed Media on Panel

14 1/8" x 15 3/8"

2014

So all of my Grad. School Applications have been submitted and the waiting game has begun.

Above is a painting I was able to finish just before the new year and am quite happy with it.  Looking forward to getting into the studio more this Spring, I have a pile of panels started and need to finish.  If I can save some money I am going to start sending out flyers to find representation outside of KCMO. Debating with myself if I should apply to the Midwest addition of New American Painters this year. Most likely will have plenty of good images and it really doesn't hurt to apply just a little $$$. 

Process shots:  I have been working on this painting for about year the top image is really close to the beginning of its start the lower image is from 1/19/2015.  This painting is one that has been fighting me to find its finished state but I am pleased with where it is headed and I hope it gets finished this spring.  Metallic Enamel Paint is my new best friend now!

So a little while back the Charlotte Street Foundation was looking for images to turn into buttons and I submitted this little fellow above.  I never heard anything about these buttons after that. So I am going to try to get some buttons made and give out to my friends and whoever wants one.  Will keep you posted on these I may need to make some variants. This all will depend on taxes and if I can save money and make money.  But I really want to make these.

Okay last but not the least here is an in progress image of one of my shaped paintings these are really something different to work with, still researching the shapes and where they need to come from. The progress of this one has been quite enjoyable for me. I have only been painting on it for a couple of  sessions.

Selfsies

 Image courtesy of E.G. Schempf

Image courtesy of E.G. Schempf

If you missed the Selfsies here are two  install shots of the show.

Colab Details

Here are a couple of details from the newest colabs between Sike and myself.

New Work for 2013

Six new paintings 

Mixed media on panel

small paintings

Here are 3 small paintings that are in progress all of them are mixed media on panel.

They are part of an on going group that I am hoping to show soon.

Paintings on Canvas

Splashdown Takeoff Stump in the Yard

Acrylic and oil on canvas

38 3/8" x 29 1/2"

2012

Oh Inverted Firebird (Circa 1973)

Mixed Media on canvas

38 3/8" x 29 1/2"

2012

in the collection of Waseem Touma

An install, and the studio in July

This is a quick installation shot of one of my curve forms(maquette size) that hangs on a wall in its new home.  Thanks to Mrs. Kim Higgins for providing the new home.  It was installed this past May.

  

And here is the July studio shot.  I have been trying to do one of these a month.  This is the east wall.

Maquette groups, a painting, & a list of music

1st Photo is of a group of maquettes that I would like to make more of they are mixed media on wood forms dimensions variable.  The 2nd Photo is of a group of maquettes that I am working on and may make into wood forms but are right now made of mixed media on cardboard & paperboard.  The 3rd Photo is of a new painting on paper I am working on, that I happen to enjoy right now it is mixed media on paper.

And here is my list of music from the other night while working on these works and contemplating the collaborations between Phil (SIKE) Shaffer & myself.

1. Gogol Bordello                   Gyspy Punks
2. Gnarls Barkley                    St. Elsewhere
3. Flock of Seagulls                 I Ran (single)
4. Fleetwood Mac                   Landslide (single)
5. Smashing Pumpkins            B-sides box set from Mellon Collie                                                                 & the Infinite Sadness

First Look at Collaborations

Ok so me and Sike (aka Phil Shaffer) have been working on making some collaborative paintings.  And here are two of these paintings in an early state.  We are going to be making around 15 of these bad boys and girls but just 5 to start with.  These are the first 2 they are about 24" x 48" and 48" x 24" mixed media on plywood panel.