So, years ago, when I was painting halfway as a joke/wait I’m actually serious guys, I made my good friends Jeff and Elyse Hackman lions for their wedding. ….and then they started having kids. The two lions beneath the big lion picture are for their two boys. Recently, they had a little girl, and they…

Two posts, one weekend. I was looking through my website, and I realized that I’ve never posted about my finished car. I thought I would start with this car portrait- because it’s the only legitimate self portrait I’ve……ever done? Flight goggles, starbucks smock, real tired looking. Three planks in my self portrait platform. It’s interesting-…

  Hey everyone, I’ve been working on the cabinet on and off for a good 3 months now. In between, I’ve done quite a few little experiments. Above is an attempt at rethinking and remapping how I do portraits. I think I’ve felt stifled in that I have felt obligated to create more accurate looking…

  This painting had about 5 finished versions.     What’s the difference, you ask? Well, color balance was really difficult. I really wanted to use purple and stay away from blue and yellow, which are my fall back colors. I ended up, though, overcompensating and doing just too much purple. I tried to cut…

      Have some highlight shots of how accordioned this painting is. Abs bought this painting and has a wonderful wife. This painting captures the feeling of his apartment before that change for him.

One of my favorite paintings I’ve ever made, Trains/Dragons is sort of an intersection for me of two big themes: The train as a meaningful companion during a certain chapter of my life. I lived in a small apartment and a train would go buy multiple times a day out of my window. While I…

  Trying to get back to portraits- my portraits have been a little weak for a long time, and I’m trying to think through what direction I’d like to go in next. Had a lot of time in New Orleans to try to sketch this stuff out. Some of the less accurate ones have some…

    The first picture is what will go inside the cabinet, the second painting is the outside of the cabinet, and the third painting is the the religious art I’m trying to echo with my broken down church painting. Pretty excited! More later.

  Wanted to follow up with something to Trains/Dragons. I’m thinking of calling this Garbage Trucks/Black Bears. Not a hundred percent sure about the name. I know what I was trying to do- and I got somewhere good. Happy with this one.

I made this painting because I’ve been thinking about how more and more churches are losing congregations. I think there’s a lot of reason for this- first, I think there’s genuinely less interest in traditional Christianity. Secondly, I think that many traditional churches are opting for non traditional spaces. As someone who has a traditional…

  So I decided to do baseball paintings while doing my painting “Mcdonald’s World!” You might be wondering (if you are a bi-yearly reader) where is “Mcdonald’s World!”? Well I broke it! I broke it so hard! If you keep paintings in your car and then also you glued them together with (apparently) really bad…

  This painting is an effort to create a more turbid, tense living room scene than the one of me in my apartment. I used blue and red and green to create a sense of tension. The couch and the lamp start a sort of triangle of objects/motion that move towards the door into the…