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04/28/12

Of Wolves and Women

This is a new painting that is in the upcoming St. Paul show sponsored by WARM.  It’s taken me a week to get it here, but here it is. See the real thing in St. Paul next Saturday night at our opening reception.  (See post below this one.)

I wonder what this painting is about, you are thinking.  Well, I painted it literally the same week I heard that wolf hunting might be made legal again in Minnesota. I think this is a horrible idea. I’m not scared of wolves at all, and they deserve to be here in Minnesota. When are we going to stop destroying the habitats of wild animals, and the animals themselves?  I worry about them, and all wild animals, for the future.  Wolves were just brought back from the brink of endangered status in Minnesota; let’s not send them back there.

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04/13/12

Bits of One

Here are some fun shots of one unfinished painting that look pretty good in their individual smallness. They are part of a painting meant for an art fair this summer here in St. Cloud.

On an unrelated note, I need people to join my mailing list! I have a lot of art show postcards to send out, so please send me your mailing address. I know it’s old fashioned but some of us still send out real actual postcards to announce shows.



I like the parts better than the whole, but it’s not done yet so that might change. Oh yes, the WARM show — It’s called Kinetic Connections. I have one or two paintings left to finish by next Wednesday but it’s not a problem. I can paint fast under pressure if I need to. Wish me luck and come to the reception May 5th!

01/25/12

Stating the Obvious

Every now and something on Facebook gets it right and is actually worth sharing on a real website. (My appreciation to the artist who produced this drawing, PearlEden on deviantart.com)

Sure, finding something of value on Facebook happens at least once a week, but this one is really a great reminder to the general public. Here’s the message: Artists work, they are not fooling around with a “hobby” left over from childhood. It’s real work to produce art, and it’s also something that most people can’t do, so it’s valuable. Because few people can do it, it’s actually more valuable than most work. Yet, most artists do not make much from their work.
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10/25/11

Habitat Finished and In Progress

I finished the Sunset Woman and Habitat paintings today and began work on a few other things . . . . for one, an older mixed media piece that is a portrait of an Afghan girl.  I took these today with my Blackberry.  The painting on the right is Habitat.

The painting below is the Afghan girl who is in a war zone in my painting (though this was not her environment in the reference photo). I began this over a year ago and it’s been sitting in my studio since July.  I have a few of these I keep meaning to  “get to”.  The bright yellow colors bothered me today to the point where I painted over much of the yellow (which was everywhere) and now it looks much better, though it is far from being finished.

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05/24/11

Genesis

A blast from the not-too-distant past.

This is a watercolor called Genesis II reflecting my love of science-fiction. It’s about 24″ x 27″. (There is also a Genesis I featuring a woman in a similar scene.) I have this on Artspan.org too. Soon I’ll have my things on Zazzle so people can get them on items other than prints. It’s just a matter of finding the time to list them there.

04/14/11

Isle of Elsewhere

Formerly quasi-named “Garden of Decisions” this is finished (as of today) and is now “Isle of Elsewhere”. This is another not so great photo, this time of the finished version.

(This would be an excellent, sharp photo if it wasn’t a windy day and I had a tripod on even ground and my battery hadn’t just given out.) This is going into an art show in Hopkins MN this weekend, along with Pumpkin Beach, which I am renaming to Citrus Sky. See it at Artspan.org.

All I have left to do on Isle of Elsewhere is knock it into the frame — with a hammer. I got a new bamboo frame for this one and it’s just the tiniest bit too small, so I’m having to gradually force the painting into the frame.

03/20/11

War Monster

Tank Monster is now “War Monster”. It still eats babies, but it looks a bit different. It took a while to finish because I had to draw the babies with a marker (it’s a very small painting) and it was hard to find archival ink in a small pen point. I finally found a .005″ archival ink pen at Crafts Direct, and before I finished using it my dog chewed it half up (eating ink in the process). But I was able to finish it after taping up the pen and voila, War Monster. I’m not adding it to the usual places, but instead, it will go to AntiwarArtists.com.

02/24/11

Tank Monster

This is an antiwar painting (haven’t done one in a while) with a monster that will soon be eating children. After all, that’s what war does. The trick is to make sure the monster doesn’t devolve into a cartoonish appearance.  I’m working on it later tonight, along with a watercolor/acrylic of an Afghanistan girl.  Here is “Tank Monster” so far.  It’s not nearly this colorful yet, and probably won’t be when I’m finished.