Merge

acrylic on paper, 18.875" x 27"

Tread

gouache on paper, 18.75" x 26.75"

Turn

watercolor on paper, 18.75" x 27"

Beta Bugs

Every now and then I’m invited to test out some site before it is live. I figured I’d give so-called bugs a visual representation. To keep my image interesting, I decided to vary the color of the bugs and the background. Also, I varied which way the bugs turned without worrying about exact symmetry. Using the medium watercolor pencil, I drew and then applied water with a brush. I glazed the piece with several layers.


watercolor pencil on paper, 18" x 27.125"

Viral Mutation

Over the last few years I have been interested in the viral phenomena online. A video will suddenly become a sensation that spawns remixes and parodies. I decided to take a shape of a virus and let it change color and spikes as it repeats across the page. The first one is green. The other ones follow a continuous rotation around a pastel color wheel.


acrylic on paper, 18" x 27.125"

Tweetmania

To capture the spirit of the exploding Twitter phenomenon, I repeated the shape of a bluebird soaring upward. To render my watercolor painting, I used several of the blues available including: cobalt blue, phthalo blue and ultramarine blue. After much thought, I decided to not add any other colors to this work. I figured they would be more a distraction then an improvement.


watercolor on paper, 18.875" x 26.125"

Crop Addiction

A few months ago a friend on Facebook invited me to try a game called Farm Town. In short order I was addicted to the game. Since then, I also became hooked on a very similar game, FarmVille. Anyway, here is my gouache abstract painting celebrating both games. I can’t escape grids.


gouache on paper, 19.375" x 15.875"

Keys

watercolor pencil on paper, 14.5" x 19.5"

Change

watercolor on paper, 11.75" x 14.625"

Drops

Here’s the first of five pieces I completed for an art show that goes up on June 1st at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, LA. It is gouache painting. I haven’t done that many with this cousin-medium to watercolor. Since there was such a short deadline for this show, I stuck with ideas that could be generated very quickly. I only received notice on the morning of May 18th. The pieces are currently at the framers. Look for the other four shortly.


gouache on paper, 11.75" x 14.625"

Premonition Pink Sold!

Well this piece is no longer in my possession. A fellow artist bought this shortly before Thanksgiving Day. That means I only have one left of the three pieces I created.

In the meantime I did start a new one. Unfortunately the paper I used did not work out as nicely. Hopefully I'll find a solution. I'll post it at some future date.


mixed media on paper, 17.5" x 24"

Super Flat Stool

After reading The Inevitable Japanese Experience and Super Flat, I painted a stool based on characteristics from animé and manga.





acrylic on wood

Three New Paintings

Well I finished these three paintings this afternoon. I took forever to decide on what I wanted to do in the very beginning. Then it took forever for me to work through them. Originally they were going to be like some Japanese paintings I have seen, but they just were not working out. Midstream I had to do something else. Maybe these will lead to some other paintings. I just know I had to do something other than dots.

Fountain

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Patio

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Wall

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Dots, Grids and Expressive Lines

This piece brought together three types of imagery found in my artwork. Below are two sketches as well as the final piece.


colored pencil on paper, 5.5" x 8.5"


colored pencil on paper, 5.5" x 8.5"

At The Decordova Museum outside of Boston, I saw a kitsch show back in 2005. There were lots of sentimental objects and garish pieces. When I got back to Metairie, I started working on this piece. In each square of the grid, I picked six colors blindly. I then chose which ones to make the background in a square and which others to color the dots. Then I'd pick six more again and again until I had used all the colors in the set.

Normally instructor artists will tell you to use a limited palette. I was determined to use every color in the box of 120 colored pencils. I kept pulling six colors until I went through the whole box then started over picking six colors at a time.


colored pencil on paper, 21" x 26.5"

Artwork in Circulation

In March '06 many of the pieces on this blog were placed at the Friends of Rivertown Fine Art Gallery. In mid April '07 the gallery closed for good. Since then I have circulated the art to other venues around town. I've even entered some of the works in competition.

Although I have concentrated on the production of my dot artwork, I do plan to continue on this tangent I began in late '04 - that is keep what I do more random and continue to experiment. These works represent a different direction for me and I hope to continue it. Like most art I do, I just have to jump in and see what happens. Making art spontaneously is always more exciting. I don't who said it but it goes something like this: "If all you do is what you did, than all you'll get is what you got."

Agrow Sold

Today I sold this piece to a friend I knew from high school. She intends to hang it in her daughter’s bedroom. It was great to sell to someone I’ve known that long.


watercolor on canvas, 12" x 12"

Premonition Orange Sold

Today I sold this piece to another artist. It’s always more exciting to sell to someone who likes making art too.