Been painting... yada yada yada. Been busy and can barely post this picture. But here's the first go at a painting of my friend Sean. Needs to be worked on, but it's a bold, bright panting style, and I'm having a lot of fun!

More! More! MORE!

More of these little beauties! That's right! There's a show coming up October 14th at the Back Bay Center with Gallery 212, and I will be selling and displaying my "Quote- based" paintings with several interesting and admirable quotes like last time. I'm playing with shadow images, images I'm making by theoretically erasing paint and seeing what animal or face comes out of it. It's fun, for sure, and why not? There's so much to explore with the paint, I can't help but want to try it all.

Here are some finished, some in progress. Enjoy.

Self Portrait

Working on a Portrait show. A show of portraits. This will be with my fellow artist and partner in crime, Mellissa. Here's some progress, of course it's out of order but who the heck cares?! Take a look into the uncanny valley and see my head on a wood board. That's not me, I swear. More to follow, when the piece is finished!

Logos

Some logo comps I made for a friend from Denver. He's coaching a debate team and they wanted a classy logo with the denver skyline and city structure included. Denver was a great time--- just got back a week ago. It felt likt time had stopped while I was over there, but when I got back, so much had happened!

I've taken myself away from my daily life in order to get a few things done.

1. Write some darned music.

2. Finish the dummy for this Children's book, already!

Here's some progress pictures. They are both rough color studies, but I can't believed I've never done studies before- they're going to make the finished work so much easier to map out.

I'm having fun here. Playing a lot of music and having the free time to go for bike rides, paint, watch a lot of TV which feels quite wrong but, hey... things that are scarce should be enjoyed and valued once in a while, even if they aren't the most productive of things.

But I realize life is what you make it. I know this fantasy of free time can't last, but I can make time for all the stuff I love, and it's definitely important to be able to do what you love, and not live to just pay your bills, or make the next purchase. Time time time. It's an illusion I know, but it's our functioning world.

Well, love to all. Peace and fun for sure! I wish these things for you and me. See you soon with a finished dummy!

Love and WAR!

Oh the labor and love of making a children's book. It's the coolest project I've ever attempted, yet it's so difficult to pull the time together to actually do it. When one starts a children's book, I think one should make it their new wife/husband. You must nurture it so that it can nurture you. You must pay it attention, give it time, give it love, understanding, but most of all--- time. This is the problem here people. But I've become aware now, so....

In other news, my album is going to the printers very soon. We're waiting on them to start asking for which files and what files. Release party? Yea! There will be one in Orange County, and one in Napa. It'll be a big "to-do" and art will be around, friends, fun, food. I can't wait to share it with everyone. It sounds nice, you know? It sounds real and nice. Real nice.

I've been laying around with this image for my band, "Orphan Annie". We're on facebook. Look us up, please. :) I want to go all out with this dooder, so I'm taking me time. Think psychedelic, think little orphan Annie, think eyeballs and faces and butterflies and sunbeams. Our music is that.

Starting to do color studies!!!