Gumballs

Gumballs 11″x 11″ oil on aluminum panel

Snow Globes

New painting, Snow Globes 12″x17″ oil on aluminum panel.

Pocono Mts.

Pocono Mts. 6″x8″ oil on aluminum panel

Coo Coo

Coo Coo 12″x12″ oil on panel. I am in love with this painting, I am not entirely sure why, I just love it. It is such a goofy clock, it is fun to mix low and high art, assuming I can call my own work high art.

Clear Headed

Clear Headed 8″x6″ oil on panel. Ba Dum cheee, I couldn’t resist the title, what else are you supposed to call a head you can see into?

Blue Dog

Blue Dog oil on panel 10″x8″. I found this hilarious 70’s bank. I like that it is so anthropomorphic, it plays back and forth between a deadpan, almost documentary still life and a character that begs for an emotional connection.

All Fall Down

All Fall Down 11″x14″ oil on panel.

Sheriff

Sheriff 8″x6″ oil on panel.

Output

In my studio I will work on several paintings at once, I don’t go back and forth between paintings, I really work on several paintings at a time. With practice, I have trained my ear muscles to gently grasp a brush and apply paint. So between my ears and my belly button I am able to sling a lot of paint. This degree of output makes it especially necessary to maintain a high degree of concentration so I will burn some sandalwood incense, put the Enya or Maybe some John Tesh on in the background and then I tantric paint for sometimes two or three hours in a row un-inturupted. Exhilarating!

Smoking Monkey

Smoking Monkey 7″x5″ oil on panel. Cool trompe l’oeil subject, I remember these from when I was a kid. I love toys in their wrappers, they are kind of melancholy unused waiting to be opened. I don’t think this toy would go over well these days.