I’m finishing up paintings for the next month, then I’ll need a break just to try to sell some things. My inventory is building up to ridiculous levels! This is in progress:
Yes he'll be nude, but not entirely.
I have three art shows next year that are not part of art crawls so I have a lot of work to output in these next five months. I am not panicking yet but I probably will be doing just that in about two months.
Meanwhile, I am doing some small things just to have a few things to store and use if I need them (they are not necessarily what I’ll be putting in any show, but they very well may be used.) The first is above, called “Solar, Duh” for now. I’m sure I’ll name it something better later. The second is below, and I’m calling it “Memories of Ice”. It will have a companion canvas finished soon. They are both in 3D! (But you don’t need the zany glasses to appreciate them).
This is 8″ x 8″.
The third is below that and has no proper title yet either, because my brain has already moved on and now I’m painting a steampunk spaceship in a purple sky. (And believe it or not, doing absolutely no drugs of any kind, except caffeine of course). This is 8″ x 10″.
I don’t know if I’ll post again before this weekend because I’ve been lazy at blogging lately. I’ve been working on my new website called MN ART BUZZ and trying to design that with a look that is more exciting than the current one. If you know of Minnesota artists who should be featured on it, let me know. And I’ve been trying to get some of my paintings posted around on all the internet sites I exhibit on. This is frustratingly slow and requires me to have something to say about everything, and sometimes I have nothing to say about a painting at all, believe it or not. So I have to come up with some fascinating gibberish and that’s not always easy.
So anyway, if I do not write more before this weekend, Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all ! who stumble upon this blog. May your 2012 be wonderful and happy and all of that.
I’m painting more ocean scenes, mainly because I like them, and like a lot of northerners, I wish I lived by the ocean — somewhere in the south. Specifically though, I have always felt an affinity and connection to oceans. Here in Minnesota we are 100% land-locked, though we have a lot of lakes. Lakes are pretty, but they are not the sea. They are totally different, more like ponds compared to an ocean. The closest thing we have is Lake Superior, and that is 300 miles north of me. Every now and then I try to take a trip of some kind to visit the ocean, but it’s too expensive to do that every year.
These are smaller paintings. Rough Seas is 12″ x 12″ and Purple Seas is 8″ x 10″. Both are acrylic on canvas, and both are for sale. I will have them listed for sale on Fine Art America soon. I plan on starting a lot of small paintings this month, mostly having themes of sky, storms and night skies.
Purple Sea
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Be sure you check out the last art crawl in central Minnesota before the holidays… the November 18th Art Crawl. This is the first time that Artists at 701 (Dona Koshowany and myself) are officially participating in an advertised capacity. As a result, we have a new website for Artists at 701.
You can meet us and see our art (and more) this Friday, November 18th, at the next downtown St. Cloud art crawl. Come and see us at 701 West St. Germain, from 4:00-9:00 pm. on the 2nd floor.
There will also be a guest artist for the November art crawl — watercolor artist Deb Vander Eyk. 
All of the artists you can meet this Friday at 701 work in water media, which means acrylic and watercolor, but our work is very different and varied.
We will also have things besides paintings at the art crawl to look at and to purchase, such as cards and other hand-made things, and a few good things to eat too. Yes, that means cookies. Stop by!
These are two small paintings I was able to do in one day, inspired by, let’s say, outside influences. The first is named Paranoia. I didn’t realize until it was finished how much it resembles (in subject) the movie poster for “North by Northwest” which was a Hitchcock movie I didn’t even like very much. The other is a little decorative picture I named “Whip”, and it is a 3D raised tile surrounded by a wooden recessed frame. It was originally a Japanese decorative art piece with a picture of Mt. Fuji in the center, and authentic Japanese writing on the back. I got it at a garage sale a long time ago, and never like the Mt. Fuji part of it, so I painted over it. The writing in the back is still there. Now it’s both more cheerful and odder. Nothing wrong with that.
My philosophy of art is, in part: the more unusual, the better, especially if it makes you think. Art should be all about cognitive dissonance. I don’t achieve that here but some day, something I do will convey exactly that.
