Hey everyone! I already sold these paintings but I thought I would post them, if only so that people could see them on the blog.

Two versions of Herzog. The second one is the final one. It’s almost the same, but the eye and lips are slightly different.

It’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve been working on a landscape (for my brother Will who just got married) as well as a whole new kind of project. I’ve been attempting to “sketch” using publisher and chopped up digital images to make a collage. If this is successful, I’ll be able to…

….and, we’re back. That’s right! For those of you who might not know, about five years ago I set a goal of making seven great dragons before I died. The first two dragons were made of wood. This red one: And this Green one: (Also, does anyone have a better photo of this? I can’t find…

I have a backlog of photos that I’ve been taking, thinking I’d paint them. I’m a little stuck, so I’m uploading the photos to my computer and thinking about them. If anyone has any input about what I should paint, I’d love to hear it. I’ve been meditating on making a knobbly self portrait. While…

Recently I’ve been reading a book about Kandinsky. I went to an Impressionist exhibit with my fiancé in Philadelphia. I had forgotten, maybe, how good paintings could be- I left in a weird state of altered consciousness. I felt kind of elated, melancholy, and discouraged. I realized that the paintings I was enjoying I would…

The Parking Deck I took this picture while hanging out with Jeff Song (who might have his portrait on this website soon, stay tuned). What I I like about it is that I think I got at the beautiful/slightly ominous nature of the parking deck when painting this picture. I tried this before with No Man’s…

So, since making that enormous tree with my team from church, my regular painting has not been happening as consistently. This is the first painting I’ve done since the tree project was completed. I’m really happy with this. I’ve been reading books on Van Gogh, color theory, and mixing colors. This painting enjoys some of the…

The very first thing to say about this project is that I couldn’t have gotten this far without the help of Stuart Diller and Amanda Shepard. This is being made up for my church, the Upper Room. The expenses for the materials have been generously provided by the church, which is a hug buy in…

So, this year I’ve been more disciplined than ever. Surprisingly, then, when I counted how many paintings I had made, I had to stop counting at seven. Why is that? Well, I’ve been trying to figure that out, and I figured that as I do I could post about where my painting time has gone….

I’m not sure what to write about this painting, because I like it so much. Over the last two years, I’ve responded to finished paintings by immediately moving on from them to knew paintings I wanted to work on. While that’s a pretty efficient strategy, it skips the stage where I enjoy having made something….

Part two- this picture was taken a few weeks ago, this painting has developed a whole lot more since then. I think you can see better with this close up shot on the right how I’m doing a sort of hidden picture effect in order to make a cool sky background. Can anyone see that…