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This is an expressive largely finger-painted canvas. It’s rather diminutive at just 8″x24″, but it’s got a lot going for it. It reads as a landscape, a field of grain with the sun setting in the distance. There is a rather complex underpainting which you can still see in the middle of several of the troughs created through fingernail scraping.
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I’m delving into further abstraction and this painting is heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism. I’m trying to avoid my old tricks like adding cute little monsters or octopuses and putting thick black lines around everything. This painting was made without any brushes, but instead the paint was applied with my bare hands. It incorporates a part of a red color field painting I had made earlier.
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I’d painted all the energy out of the painting with that mellow field of white and tried to spruce it up first by adding patches of yellow and magenta and when that left the painting feeling more like a background than anything else I decided I’d cut up this other painting I’d made on bristol, which was really just a sort of color field painting of reds and dark oranges. I drew the three lines with black paint and then pasted the colored shapes on with white paint. For a while I was pretty happy with this, but I couldn’t accept it as finished yet. It was too cleaver, too pent up. Like there was this fierce energy in the painting but it was all being forced into the background and this weird abstract fish bone like composition was like trying to distract the viewer from what was going on inside the painting. Finally I tore back into the canvas, literally throwing paint onto it and scraping at it with my fingernails. A cathartic release which denies the cover story of the cut out shapes and digs in to release the energy of the painting.
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The black biomorphic sort of deflated heart shape in the center left with two white oval eyes is a female dreamer, her head silhouetted by her pillow, her upper body outlined vaguely, the two white shapes below the head are her breasts. In the upper left her lover stays up drinking. To the right is a world of dream images featuring a inuit style totem pole with a flying anthropomorphic figure on the top, silhouetted by what could be northern lights and a jumble of spindly trees from the Alaskan wilderness (I grew up in Alaska) but also reads as stained glass. Stylized fish swim towards the totem. Below and two the right a yellow cornucopia shape serves as the body for another fish whose head is being devoured by a sort of disfigured fetus monster. This yellow shape also serves as the body of a flying spirit figure, grinning like a fool. Fins become tiny, probably useless wings. Below the fetus monster are a series of of other fetal images, their various parts outlining a circle like an egg. On the far right a donkey/human monster ejects pink sperm like creatures. Two shadowy figures in the lower right poke their heads from out of the picture frame, as if observing. In the upper right a front of messy clouds are moving in, threatening to scramble the entire picture into pure abstraction, and in the lower left a suggestion of dirt people threaten invade.
Growing up outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, I saw a lot of totem poles. These massive sculpted object generally feature a number of sculpted faces of gods or spirits, anthropomorphic animal heads and such. The ones I remember best had a bird like creature in them, usually at the top, its wide spread wings turning the totem into a cross shape but with a suggestion of flight rather than the christian cross which to me suggests being nailed down to it. Fish are loaded with meaning for me. Salmon and halibut were staple foods while I was growing up. I have memories and pictures of being compared to salmon my father caught in terms of height. One of my proudest moments when I was five years old was catching five rainbow trout in one fishing trip. I remember going on camping trips with my family where the impression I had (it may not have actually been the case) was that if we didn’t catch any fish during the day, we wouldn’t have anything to eat that night. So in these ways fish equal sustenance. In college I developed a serious aquarium keeping hobby. I had a fiery and emotional girlfriend and we set up a 45 gallon aquarium in a public space in our dorm to keep large cichlids in. We had varying degrees of success with that tank, it would often turn green with algae and dead fish were not uncommon. We also had a rather hot and cold relationship and my friends claimed they could tell how my relationship was going by looking at the aquarium. Clean water and healthy fish meant the relationship was going well, dirty water and dead fish meant we were fighting. In this way, fish symbolize mental health.
That relationship ended and later, with another girlfriend, I moved on to keeping saltwater tanks. The girl left but the aquariums have stayed with me. When I have been prosperous enough to buy the things the aquariums need and organized enough to do the regular maintenance they require these tanks have been strikingly beautiful and a point of pride in my life. When I have been poor and unable to buy the things the aquariums need or to busy to take proper care of them their beauty recedes; algae starts to take over, corals bleach and animals die and the aquariums become a reminder of the mess my life has become. In this way, fish symbolize prosperity.
Now, did any of that come through just from looking at the painting? I hope at least a little did. This painting is painted on a 1.5″ deep gallery series canvas and is supplied with a wire for easy hanging. You can have it framed if you like, but you don’t really need to.
This painting is a diminutive 10″x10″. It is painted on stretched canvas and supplied with a wire for easy hanging.
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My favorite part of this painting is the play of bright reds, blues, greens, and magentas in the upper third of the painting, and the contrast to the dark background and bottom segment. It evokes a sense of exoticism and danger while retaining its sense of humor.
I’m going to try something new here in this post. You see, as a starving artist I can’t hardly afford to buy myself as many Apple iPads as I would like to own, the number of iPads I would like to own being equal to or greater than the number one. So if any of you people out there in the world have an iPad, and think you would rather have this painting, I propose a trade. Leave a comment if you’re interested. This offer is valid until I have traded, sold, gifted, burned, or otherwise destroyed this painting or until I have obtained a number of iPads which causes me to no longer desire increased iPad ownership, whichever comes first. (iPad must be fully functional and not excessively scratched up or otherwise damaged. I’m not picky about the model, but if you’ve got one of the 3G ones you’re looking to get rid of I could maybe throw in a couple of matted prints)

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Here’s a painting that is about a cat who may or may not be a real space-cat, and how when a cat who may or may not be space-cat looks through the mouth of its secret lair-cave dream scape it may find that the heavens are full of constellational mice. Seraphic is a nice word which I just learned in trying to find a word that rhymes with “electric” and means celestial, as in living up there in the space-sky. The dictionary on my Mac defines seraph as “an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity.” I’m not pushing Christianity here, though to be quite honest I am now rather curious about this ninefold celestial hierarchy. I had always thought Christianity’s mythology to be rather bland when it came to the cast of characters that got to live up there in space, but now it seems there is a ninefold!
This is an acrylic painting on a 16″ tall by 20″ wide gallery depth canvas. That means the canvas stretcher is an inch and a half deep and there are no staples or nails on the edge. It’s ready to hang without a frame, though the edges are unpainted aside from that paint that sort of slopped over from the front. If that’s the kind of thing that bothers you, you’ll probably want to put it in a frame.

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In this painting I am exploring some of the compositional ideas from Sunrise of the Phoenix with a different pallet. I think I put a bit too much paint on it, to be honest. Where Phoenix feels light and dreamy, Shouting feels heavy and tied down. There is a bit too much paint on it, really. I should have stopped early on.
That being said, I do really like the little red guy in the lower right. He’s there mostly to balance the red patches in the upper left, but I love how he seems to be rolling his eyes at the action going on in the rest of the painting.
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If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that much of the work I have produced this year is on paper, or bristol, which is fancy really thick paper that is acid free and all that so that it won’t fall apart or discolor over time. It’s what the paper pushers at the art supply store call “archival.” Part of the motivation for working on this bristol is that it’s easy to deal with, it’s no great tragedy if a painting doesn’t turn out, and it’s fairly inexpensive compared to stretched canvas. On the down side, in order to really display a work on bristol properly it has to be matted and framed, which dramatically decreases the economic advantage of working with bristol vs. canvas. Also, larger sheets of bristol become less easy to deal with, and larger frames get to be prohibitively expensive. So: I’m making the leap to working on canvas. A canvas can be hung without a frame. The edge of this particular canvas are rough, by which I mean I didn’t pay any particular attention to them so there is some paint on the edges close to the main surface, but the edges are mostly white. This is a so-called gallery canvas, meaning the stretcher frame is an inch and a half deep and is free of staples and nails. Of course, you can also put the canvas in a frame to hide the edges and to make it look fancier. The point is you don’t really need to. Also, you don’t really need to put it under glass, and when framing you can use glass-less frame. The acrylic surface can be wiped down with a damp cloth from time to time to remove dust. If you accidentally get like chocolate or spaghetti sauce on it you can just clean it off. Best to keep it out of direct sunlight, but this is true for most of your beloved material possessions.
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Hello friends. If you’ve been paying attention you know that I’ve been working on a giant 30″x40″ painting. But that doesn’t mean I can also make some smaller paintings. I’ve been feeling like I try to cram too much junk into a lot of these, and that it might be nice to let some space into the composition. I really like the way so much of the action is in the background of this painting. I love hte yellow pushing against the orange and red. This weird twittering bird thing emerging in profile. An audience of little green dots.
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Here’s a little painting I made over the weekend while at a lake house in Pensilvania. For those who are unawares, as I was until recently, a lake house is a house which is right up next to a lake. In this case the lake was called Lake Sunshine or Lake Sunset or Sunrise or Sunstroke or something but it has Sun in it I’m pretty sure. It’s supposedly a man made lake, and it seemed to be lined along its entire circumference by little and not so little houses and docks with canoes and boats and such. The water was disgusting to be in but pleasant to be around. So many diatoms growing in the water column that your hand would turn brown and then disappear about a foot down.
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This 11″x14″ painting is framed in a 16″x20″ frame with an archival mat and backing material and a glass front. It is part of a set of paintings I am currently shopping around to potential exhibit spaces. If you know of a place you think would like to show this work, please do let me know.
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This painting started out as a pastel drawing which I mostly painted over with acrylics, then going back in and rubbing some pastel dust over the still kind of wet acrylic paint to get the nicely contrasted brushstroke effects like the blues and whites on the far left.
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“No, You’re a Fruit Salad” is a kind of play on that type of lover’s quarrel that involved the two parties saying things like, “no, I love you more” back and forth, or “no, you’re the cute one” or “no, you’re the one who doesn’t hysterically over react to the tinniest little thing” or “no, you have a pretty smile.”

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So you may know that a couple of years ago my two Ocellaris clownfish, Willy Nelson and Orange Crush started laying eggs. Every two weeks they lay a nest of 300 to 400 eggs. So I decided, hey I know, I’ll raise baby clownfish and make a fortune selling them back to the aquarium industry. This worked for a while, I was regularly selling baby clownfish to a store out in Revere called Sea Creatures and making dozens and dozens of dollars, most of which I spent on fish food, salt mix, and exotic marine animals. By most, I mean all. Then Sea Creatures closed their doors sometime during the terrible economic collapse and I have not found another store to sell my babies to. This did not stop me from raising more babies, at least not for a while, and so now I have a tank with a few hundred clownfish in it. I also have another tank, 55 gallons, with a pair of maroon clowns in it. The maroons host in a family of small bubble tipped anemones, but there is also a hadon’s carpet anemone in there that would probably benefit from having a few clowns hosting in it. The maroons have never shown any interest in it, and probably never will as they natively host in bubble tips. So I figured I’d add a couple of my now not quite baby Ocellaris clownfish to the tank.
We named them Bunny and Skeleton. Joan, the large female maroon, wasn’t happy about her new neighbors. We found them on the floor a couple of hours later. Bunny went first. Since I have basically an endless supply we quickly replaced him and named the new fish New Bunny. We thought Joan would calm the fuck down but she didn’t. Skeleton was ejected sometime during the night. Skeleton 2 the next day. We tried putting Skeleton 2 and New Bunny in a mesh enclosure to protect them from Joan while she settled down. After a day or so I cut a hole in the mesh big enough for the new clowns to get out but small enough to prevent Joan from getting in. The idea was that they could come out, explore the tank, and run back in when they were attacked. Unfortunately, clownfish are not the smartest animals and they never figured out the part about getting back in the enclosure to hide from Joan. They both jumped out of the tank. We found New Bunny in time to save him, but Skeleton 2 didn’t make it through the night. The next day I caught Joan and put her in the mesh enclosure. Then we added Skeleton 3, Spider, and Chastity.
Joan stayed imprisoned for about a week while the kids made themselves comfortable. When we let her out she seemed to have learned her lesson. She barks at the kids and occasionally makes like she’s going to attack but mostly leaves them alone, instead directing her aggression towards her mate John. New Bunny, Skeleton 3, Spider, and Chastity still haven’t hosted in the anemone, but sometimes it takes a while.
This painting features depictions of Chastity, Skeleton 3, and Spider, as well as the anemone and another made up anemone. New Bunny, as is often the case, is nowhere to be found. He’s probably just hiding behind the powerhead again.






















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