A Cross Section From the Summer

I finished a few more paintings the other day.

Outside This Summer

Spending more time outside doing artwork this summer. I figure if I toss in a bit of outdoor pieces that makes that much less time making more artwork that just sits in my basement studio. This one is at Frankford between Girard and Delaware Ave. on what is called Bookspace. With their permission the good people in Bookspace allowed me to do whatever I wanted.
I love working outside. People come by to talk, just watch, offer coconut water and other pleasantries. Bookspace's neighbors "The Lighting Emporium" proposed a piece outside their space. More on that soon I hope.

Paintings Together at Last

At last I have all my paintings organized a little better together on my flickr account as follows:
Oil Paintings
Watercolors
Puddle Paintings
Stencils
I'll be adding more to these folders and reposting these links as I go.

Handletterer's Crafts

I have been obsessed with the sign painter lately. At work I stare at the lettering brushes everyday. They call out to me and whisper potential everytime I walk past them. This is the first of many projects I expect of myself this summer.

Art Energy

Father's Day got me thinking of responsibility to my new daughter Jonesy. Helping her on her way to realization of the universe. To feel and be a vessel of creativity just like Daddy does but in her own special way. This takes a lot of energy.

Here Come the White Horses

Whenever I open a tube of white, mix it in my cup and slop it on a surface I always get chills and excitement. Everything's gonna be OK and all the bad guys have been defeated for the time being. In this instance I anxiously squeezed the entire tube and feverishly exploded all over several paintings I haven't touched in over 10 years or so! I can't quite explain the moment when you've been so confused and uninspired by something that's been staring at you in the corner of your studio. Its not bad enough to destroy it and you can't do anything with it either. Then all of a sudden its so "in your face" obvious that you can't get to it fast enough to take in the moment. I'm not saying these are done, just celebrating a revisitation to an old friend.

MAKE SURE YOU EXPAND THE SCREEN WITH THE OUTWARD POINTING ARROW BOX, ON THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SLIDE SHOW BELOW, AFTER YOU HIT PLAY.

Two Cats and a Sea Lion

Two Cats and a Sea Lion!

off the street and onto our walls

Summer Puddles on Spring Photos

Adding more dimension to the single layer stencil from the previous post

Portraits in the spring of 10

I've been having an interesting time loving photography again but in a much newer (to me) context. Departing from my previous experience shooting for the sake of a moment captured, I'm purely shooting it for the print. I haven't had such a good time "printing" since the early darkroom days. There's a sense of not knowing what these blobs of area are going to really look like until I lift the stencil up. There's a magic in that moment for me.
I can see it on the digital camera display when I shoot it. I can see again it on my computer screen, networking sites or whatever. These pieces hold for me an unmatched example of my love for the process, the creation of color, and the selection of negative space.

Supreme Demeanor

This Friday I'm showing a few new works of art. I've been consumed by the idea of stencils lately and converting a photograph into a print. See where I went in the first exciting chapter. The "paint ship" is lifting off. Consider this the opening ceremonies.
The show is $7 to cover the bands and beer (beeeer)
Friday June 4th 7-11pm
Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Ave)

Thanks for the support

Mr. Stencil meet Puddle Monster

After spending weeks preparing. I spent a few hours today making a few paintings. I wanted to link my photography to my painting. I haven't printed my work lately in the traditional sense. What I have done is started making stencils of a few average photographs that I've noticed got pretty interesting once translated into a stencil and covered with paint.

This one has a stencil I made from a photograph of a music space I had 10 years ago.
I still love the unintentional that surrounds.
Please dry ok.

SOLD!!!!!!

That's right ladies and gentlemen puddle painting known as "Ice Capedes" has been sold. Drexel University's 6th Annual Art Auction on Friday March 6th was a huge success. My little painting sat alone with no bids at the silent auction for about an hour until someone offered a bid. I noticed someone shortly after was convinced of the same idea and upped the bid another 5 dollars! I waited the hole night, entertaining a few unexpected friends and sucking down as much free food and drink as I could feed myself. If you look carefully in the flicker link above you may be able to find me doing just that. Congratulations to the Dupont Chemical employee that was moved by my piece enough do drop 45 big ones down on my piece. I was moved by the fact that he was a chemist at Dupont and wanted to hang his piece in his office at work while he dreamed up ways to protect peoples' carpets and ways to reformulate polyurathane that could help my paintings!