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rain and tangled

June 27, 2011 Acrylic and metallic dust on canvas. 17x20 inches.

Napoleon In Rage (and the language that he used)

June 5, 2010 I glanced a few times at this image, while painting it. At some point, a memory of rendering a large pen-and-ink drawing based on this image when I was 15 or 16 came to me. I think it was shown in a county fair 4H art show. I remember it was matted and placed on a wall across from the prize goats. On the album cover, his t-shirt prophetically shows a Triumph motorcycle. A couple of years later, he would wipe out on a Triumph, disappear from the public eye for a while, and re-invent himself. I am also shape-shifting... so perhaps that is why I painted this image. However this is an artist rendering an image from 1965 in the year 2010... and so the final painting has some of his 2010 shape in it: Click here to see a two-minute film displaying more of my paintings.

My Paintings - A Short Film

New Painting; "Center"

As I grow, I see ever more clearly that the essence of staying centered is to allow yourself to constantly shift and reconfigure. This set of four square panels I painted in December of 2009 is designed to fit together in any orientation and sequence. The paint was applied on each panel using a different tool and technique, brush, rag, sponge, and fingers. The design was inspired by a cool toy I picked up at the Chicago Art Institute in 2008. The word "Center" is written on one of the panels. Can you find it? Here's three random configurations (click to make larger):