Here’s the show card for the WWA show. Click the image to take you to the galleries site to see all who is in the show as well as to sign up to see a preview of the show.
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Jan 12
About Face
This next friday I have a piece in a group show called About Face at WWA Gallery . It seems to be a good show with a bunch of good artist representing different perspectives on portraiture. So if you’re in the Los Angeles area I’ll be at the show so stop in and say hello. Here’s some images of my piece. I took some detail shots to give an idea of how the painting looks and feels in person. Oh and yes, I do mix my paints on aluminum foil. It makes my cleanup so much easier.
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Dec 11
Tiny Baby, Big Room, Small Incision
As I said before I’m a bit behind on work since my daughters birth, which I’m completely enjoying but I am itching to get back to painting on a daily basis. My daughter had to go into surgery the other day due to a small internal complication but everything is ok and she’s doing fine. I saw her in the pre-op room and I was struck less by fear of what my child was about to go through and more of a feeling of how odd the juxtaposition of her size in the room. A sweet baby in good health means it’s time to get to back to painting and both things are good news to my ears.
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Nov 11
Wrong Key
I was going to put a up a new post and in a moment of oops I erased the the last post. I don’t exactly remember what was said in it but it went like this. Blah blah blah blah blah, painting, blah blah blah blah. Ok, and then I showed these two paintings.
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Oct 11
Time Thief
I haven’t been posting new works because I’ve been a bit busy getting a few things in order in my househould for the past few weeks because my wife and I were expecting the arrival of a new family member. Well 7 days ago that new member arrived. I have quite a bit of paintings I still need to produce for some upcoming shows but my art time is being delegated to my new daughter at the moment. Babies are cute, but don’t be mistaken. That cuteness that babies are wrapped in is just a disguise, a disguise hiding a small dragon that instead of feeding on the flesh of either human or animal carcasses babies live only to eat up hours and minutes. Sure the baby at the breast may look as if it’s feeding on it’s mothers milk but again don’t be fooled, it’s just consuming seconds off the clock. Without the consumption of your time the baby cannot age. That’s why people without children look and feel much younger than those with children. They use their tiny facial features and large eyes to seduce you into happily handing over all your time and attention to them as they suck away those precious seconds of freedom you’ve accumulated over the years before they’ve entered you life. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and have a child and you’ll see. I realized this almost immediately unlike many others I know whom took years to realize this was happening to them. I also realized immediately it was the best thing I’ve ever done. I create paintings of women on a daily basis but this little woman I created along with my wife is the most beautiful thing I have ever had a hand in making.
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Sep 11
Attention Disorder
I think I’m overworking myself on paintings. I haven’t been posting half the paintings I’ve been doing and most of what I’ve worked on I just ended up painting over anyway. I get on these streaks where I just draw and paint which seems non stop. For instance last week I painted 4 in a day, I get compulsive that way. If I sketch something on a piece of paper I then think, “I should just put this on a panel”. Then I see the drawing on the panel and think, “Well, since it’s on the panel then maybe I have time to paint in the eyes at least”. As soon as I paint anything I can’t seem to stop. I know if I put off painting the rest the next day then I will come back to the painting no longer interested in what I had put down previously and will immediately look at the drawing and begin to paint over it. I have no problems with my attention span in other parts of my life but when it comes to my work I have a very short one. I’m always thinking let me get this one over with so I can get to the next one because the next one, that one is going to be good. In fact as I’m writing this I have this feeling that the next one (the good one that is) is right around the corner. I might have to muddle through a large batch of paintings to get there but when I do it’ll be a good feeling and when that one’s done I’ll just go on to the next painting. I realize finding those paintings I look at as successful when I’m done bring a pleasurable feeling but not half as pleasurable as the process of painting itself no matter what the outcome is.
