July 2008

article on pheromones and their power to attract

religion as a vice

the age of innocence and playfulness

(these are all sketches from photos, altered to an extent, but drawn just for fun, it’s the same kind of line drawings i do when staring at people on the bart or a cafe, quick, loose and simple, these are a bit more refined because they aren’t moving, but same concept)

small sweet people busy with life get distorted by my pen

This piece was a collaboration with 3 other artists, Donovan Clark, Casey Cripe, Forest Stearns and myself. It was in Humboldt at the annual fire art party out in the woods on someones property. They gave us a big wall and we each took a section to paint. I painted the giant woman and various patterns across the piece. Of course being Humboldt it rained which gave us a bit of a challenge. There was continuous live music behind us and fire balls shooting into the sky periodically and people juggling and eating fire.

seriously.

This is a series of paintings completed a couple of years ago, but they are still worth sharing. I spent 3 weeks on the road with Forest Stearns and when we got back we locked ourselves into the studio and spent a furious 7 days completing 15 or so paintings. We started with a printed black and white simplified photo as a background image on paper, glued to wood, glazed shiny and then each added one or two elements on top with acrylic paint. This is just a sampling of what we did.

Some are still available, most have sold, but it’s always great to collaborate with other artists.