So I finished four houses in five weeks, instead of six houses in six weeks. This was largely because my son started going to daycare and we got a virus that he got. We’ve been referring to it as the plague- it took four weeks to fully boot it out of the system…

  These pictures put my at 1/3 the way through of my goal to do six paintings in six weeks!  I recently got a show at Unsmoke Systems Artspace for May 2021. The deal is that I have to have a whole show of paintings that haven’t been displayed before. Two years is a long time, but…

This painting is a second in (at least) a trilogy of paintings that goes: Grocery Knight (or, My First Socialwork Paycheck) Starbucks Astronaut (or, the Infinite Emptiness of the Drive Through) Angels over Taco Bell (or…(TBD)) I’ve been painting semi-autobiographical metaphorical paintings about my very boring, normal life. I posted about Harrisburg- working at Starbucks,…

Second of two recent grocery store paintings, I’ve been thinking about box progressions and how they can be used to create a painting that’s more than the sum of its parts. Not sure if I’m there yet, but this is the latest attempt. I wanted this to be about remembering someone when seeing them in…

Been kicking around experimentation in short paintings. I feel like I launch pretty regularly into 6 month long projects. Does anyone remember the huge Gawaine painting I made? How about the 12 foot dragon sculpture I never finished? After a while on one of those, I feel like like I’m driven by sheer sunk cost…

Before I begin- the picture for this with me in front of the blue/yellow colorfield is the only other selfie I took that day I went back to get some of these photos. Not a huge fan of it- a little misleading, I know. In my last post, I wrote about all the paintings that…

This might be a long one. I’ve wanted to spend more time blogging as a way of developing my ability to articulate what all art is about and, downstream, what my art is about. I have something of a guilt complex about disliking a lot of modern art. I know I’m not alone in it-…

I’ve been working on portraits (per this blog- I mean, you’ve seen it faithful readers). I think this is progress. Portraits mean a lot to me. I think when I was younger I thought they were the best kind of painting- I liked the theme and variation very much. I remember in college one of…

    Something I’ve never tried to do is make an abstract painting. I’ve been regrouping after the huge church building- doing experiments, thinking, taking pictures, doing drafts. Usually during this time I come around to wondering if I should branch out by doing a still life or a pure abstraction. If you look at…

  Someone recently said to me that my painting a knight was off the beaten path of what I usually do. Since a high percentage of people who go on this site are people who have lived with me, I’m guessing you, the reader, know that I’ve done a whole load of knight projects. One…

So, not 100 percent done with this painting, but I’m practically done and I’d like to blog about it. I had a lot of fun with this portrait. It’s both a portrait of hands, and a reversal of the last painting I did with boxes, the one where you see the woman from far away…

BOOM! YEAH!   It happened about 3 weeks ago, and I’m still feeling the lift of having meaningful validation. I won for a piece I put in my guild’s show- Pittsburgh Society of Artists. It was a juried show so the person who decided I had won was the owner of Boxheart gallery, which is…