The third entry into my rust belt futurism series, this is probably the most carefully constructed. I did number of sketches beforehand, trying to get the angle right and my use of forced perspective was a journey of trial and error. I was surprised at all the math and angles I was happy to think…

So, five portraits so far, four glass paint hybrids, one more of a regular wood based portrait. I’ve been experimenting with backgrounds. The first portrait (of Jonathan) I made sort of a vague version of what was actually there. In the last portrait, I took out some of the complications of what was there to…

I made this painting in my series of acrylic/caulking/glass portraits. I’m still experimenting with how to combine those elements in an engaging way. I’d like for them to eventually be more than the sum of their parts. I like this portrait, but I think I still want to push this style forward somehow I’m pretty…

After every huge painting (see “Trains/Dragons”) I promise myself I’ll never sink so much time into a painting again. Usually, my huge paintings end up being weirder and more experimental than my little ones. This painting is both weirder and more ambitious, in at least content, than most of the rest of my work. It’s…

COVID 19- blowing things up. In the meantime, I thought I would do a miscellaneous post. Looking back, I wrote less than nine blog posts this year. I guess I decided that some of my paintings weren’t worth the attention of my elite, committed audience. Now that the art show is postponed to August, 2022,…

I finished this painting a few months ago, but didn’t post it. I have three finished paintings I haven’t posted- I think I got discouraged about blogging. I realized, though, I need to blog so I can remember all the thoughts I had while making the work. I made this painting in thinking through the…

I’m halfway to my art show and here’s what we have: Six abandoned houses:       Making the abandoned houses is a ton of fun and it’s pretty comfortable and easy for me. I could make a ton of these, but I would hate for it to seem that I think that abandoned houses…

I’ve made these two Braddock spaceships as part of an idea I think of called “Rust Belt Futurism”. I am trying to find a way to articulate the way we implicitly think of the future as non-specific and non-local. The weirdness of seeing Braddock- as it is- in space is funny, but I hope that…

  Here’s House #6- maybe the last of the abandoned houses. We’ll see- they’re easy to do and they turn out really good. Every once in a while I like to put on the site ideas I’ve half way thought through. We’re about a year an five months away from my gallery show at Unsmoke,…

Meet King Fear! He’s as big as he seems! In my head, when I was sketching this painting out during a work meeting, the painting was mostly chess board. But real life has physics and solidity and how can I fit a chess board into a mouth that’s…smaller than the chess board? Maybe M. C….

For my art show in May, 2021, I’ve been returning to ideas that I did years and years ago. In the next couple weeks, I’ll probably post about my London traing portraits and how they connect with what I’m doing now. This week, I want to highlight some of the elements of what’s going on…

This week someone was staring at me in my car and I thought “Well, of course- I have a dragon on my car,”. Surprise twist: I was driving a big white minivan because my dragon car is gone. I’ve been processing losing the Dragon Wagon for a week now, and it’s been a weird reverse…