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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

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!

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.

Install shot from Selfsies

Selfies With a Small Fry 

 Mixed Media on Panel 

48” x 96”

$4,000.00

2014

Image courtesy of E.G. Schempf

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.

New Studio Space

Hi all here is the first view of my newest studio space.

(photo courtesy of Kendra Werst)

This is the cleanest it will be and was I have been busy since moving in around the beginning of last month.

Makes My Head Hurt

Small painting in progress for the Spring Show that is Untitled at this point but is at City Ice Arts.  

In Progress

mixed media on panel

2013

Make Me An Offer

This painting needs a good home, so will someone please make me an offer on it that I can't refuse.  The title is: Splashdown Takeoff Stump in the Yard

mixed media on canvas

38 3/8" x 29 1/2"

2012

email: luke-firle@hotmail.com

Kiosk Gallery

This past June I had this little puppy up in a show titled Currents, Abstract at the Kiosk Gallery 3951 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, behind Open Fire Pizza.

Title: Double Drebol Gold Standard

Mixed Media on panel

2013 

Bunch of New Panels & a Surface Planer

15 Panels in progress plus a Cigar Box taking on the after effects.

Most of these are under 10 inches both dimensions.  Town Pavilion Studio, Luke Firle.

 

Planing down solid wood surfaces for more panels at the Style Lab outdoor work space.

Man I love the smell of sawdust this photo is deceiving on the pile size.

Thanks to Sike for the use of his outdoor work space.

Wish I Had a Dinosaur

Wish I Had A Dinosaur

Mixed Media on Panel

New Work for 2013

Six new paintings 

Mixed media on panel

Mural with paintings

Here is a shot from Open Studios again.  I painted a mural and installed eight paintings on top.  The mural is something I am considering doing in a future exhibition.  Half of these paintings are finished and half are not.

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.

new DETAILS yeah!!

This is a DETAIL of a new painting I am working on its mixed media on panel

 

And this is a DETAIL of a tester, I am trying out a new stencil I call 4 arm octopus.  Also this tester has a new kind of paint that I am thinking about using its the silver and it is an oil based enamel, hoping it works out am digging it right now.

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

Some Small Paintings & Lunch!

 So here are a few of these small paintings on panel in progress in the Town Pavilion Studio.  Just for a size relation the biggest dimension on these is less than 15 inches.

 

And then I had lunch it was Planet Sub, which is a must for me so good.

OH, my these are small paintings

So these two paintings are super small for me no side over 12".

The image of the one on top is finished but still needs a title.

The image of the one on the bottom is not finished but does have a working title Victorian Dinosaurs.

 I also have two more of these small paintings that at this time are very early in the works.

All of these will be on view at the UCP open studio's on the weekend of May 18-19, my studio is in the Town Pavilion Building at 1100 Walnut St. Kansas City MO, for more information about the open studio's go to www.charlottestreet.org or www.urbanculturestudioresidents.wordpress.com.