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.

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.

New Groupings and Reworking of shaped surfaces

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

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.

just a diptych (in progress)

This is the left panel,

and this is the right panel.

This is a piece I started this past fall the panel sizes are about 18" x 24".
As new layers come and go I will post more of this piece. It is the first piece
that I started using the vinyl cutter to cut stencils for.

More in Progress

If ya go back a couple of post you can see these 2 paintings at an earlier stage.
Both are acrylic and oil on canvas. With no working titles yet.

New Curve Maquette Chicago Barrier Style

So here we have one of the Curve Maquette's that I have been working on for some time, this is my fav of the bunch no title yet, and you are looking from top to bottom center, left and right shots of this piece. It is about 2' x 3' x 1' , oil and mop marker on wood form in a Chicago Barrier Style.