Birds of America

A Rose from Rusty's Garden

Just so you know I'm still painting...

Unopened Daffodil from the bike path

The sky over Athens in October

Tiger Lily from my mom's garden

The Last Time it was like Old Times

This series is acrylic on 5 different canvases. Most of them came to me used and incomplete and I repurposed them. Enjoy!

Sunflower and Bee

I took pictures of sunflowers that I grew this summer and discovered while I was photographing them that they were covered in insects--this one had bees buzzing around and others had ants everywhere. I spent part of my week off painting this one. It's 2' x 3' acrylic on canvas.

Ecotoons

So I've been doing cartoons of ecological disasters that have happened or are continuing to happen around the places I've lived. When you live in poor areas, people are inclined to use the land, air, and water to make a quick buck and create a few jobs for one generation, but these decisions are usually costly. They create a debt that can't be paid back. It's like check cashing businesses--you get hooked by fast money, but then you're in the hole for good. I thought it would be appropriate to paint them on cardboard boxes. Click on them to see them much bigger!

Need Cash Fast?: Appalachian Deforestation

100% Approval: Dupont C-8 Spill

Payday Advance: Mountaintop Removal

Cash Loan: Bayer Cropscience Explosion

Emergency Cash: AEP Cheshire Water Supply Contamination

Georgia O'Keeffe

In tribute to Georgia, young and old. And also so my charcoal skills don't get so rusty.

Here they are side by side. I'm not sure why I like them that way, but I do.

You work on comission, right?

So my mother in law is paying me (apparently) to do this painting that I finished last night. It's for my father in law, Chris, who took the photo that it's largely based on. Chris frequently goes to Hawaii to help his parents and he photographed this flower in their yard. The painting is for his birthday in October.

Paintings for the kids

Here are the 2 latest installments of painting for nieces and nephews.
Abbey requested "A butterfly! That's pink! And green!" Which doesn't exist, but I improvised...
Liddy asked for "The Universe!" and wanted it to glow in the dark. The universe is a little expansive (get it? Ha ha. Sigh.), so I went with part of the solar system.

Winter Leaf

That's it. That's the end of the series. I took the photo on a walk with my friend last winter. It's a maple leaf with ice frozen onto parts of it. Some of the brighter spots on the leaf are metallic paint glare--It doesn't necessarily have that much glare face to face.

Knots!

About a month ago I re-learned how to draw knots. Here are the ones I've done at my house (there are a few others that I did during various staff meetings that I'm not going to dig out of my work stuff).

Click on them to see them bigger.

They appear in the order in which I drew them.






This last one is for my friend, Bill, who LOVES dragons.
My favorites are the ferret biting it's own tail and the vine.

Birds!

I've been working with pastels lately. I love it. They're great for things like feathers and fur. These are a couple of birds from national geographic.

Black Eyed Pea-king

This is a black eyed pea peeking out of it's pod. It's from my garden over the summer. When you open one of these pods while it's still green and lush, before it dries, the spot on the pea is deep crimson and purple, and the pod is speckled and technicolor. The painting is 18" x 24". Click on it to see it larger.

A new cartoon! (An Unholy Last Supper)

This is "An Unholy Last Supper." I painted it for the farm down the street on some salvaged wood that they sanded for me. Click on it to see the image larger.
My favorite characters are the turkey and the pig.

Some long awaited cartoons

So, this first one is older. Like a year or two old. The text is a pretty famous international workers of the wold slogan, "Workers of the World Unite! All you have to lose are your chains!" Maybe you can tell--if the flash hasn't washed it out too badly, that the lobster has freed himself from the thick blue rubber bands that had once restrained him. This is painted on the surface of an end table. It's about 1' x 2'.


Click on this one to see it larger. The text of this is:
Whale: Pie. I made a pie.
Stick bug: What kind?
Whale: Vegetable.
Stick bug: I don't eat meat either.

This is painted on remnants of an old dresser, and is hanging up in my friend's apartment at White's Mill.

Thelma Sanders

That's the name of this kind of squash. I painted this for my sister in law's breakfast nook. I believe it is "homey."

Wild Grape Vine and Ice

I painted this (18"x24") from a photo I took a the West State Street park. The bottom photo is more true to the colors in the painting. The snowy background was especially fun to paint. Enjoy!

Collard Greens

I drew this bunch of greens over the last couple of weeks. Soon I will trade them for actual delicious food.

A taste of things to come...

Meet Terrence, star of the children's book Anne and I writing. The working title is the Dino-Rama.
That's his mom holding the tea cup. We made all the furniture and set by hand. It's one of the best projects I've worked on.

Fall

This is FALL--currently on display in the front office of the Timothy House. I took the photo there and the flash washed out the center, but you get the idea.