FREAK FLAG

A painting I recently finished 12 x 16 gouache on canvas

NO FISH NOAH

painted over the course of 2 unseasonably warm and rainy days in early Feb 2020

A time-lapse from the painting process

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NO FISH NOAH TIME LAPSE LINK

busy summer in the studio

A view of my new work in the studio.

An (almost) finished painting.  I don't have titles for this yet but it's part of a series of paintings I have been working on overlaying a Star design with a Marijuana leaf design 

Another painting in progress.  I have been working on a  series of paintings using the "peace dove" design I developed over the spring.  

A "peace dove" painting in progess

They Made a Gruesome Discovery

Some newer work from the studio. Gouache on paper and photographic prints sewn together

mural proposals

Here are a few photoshopped pictures of empty walls around the neighborhood with sketches I made this week.  Do you own one of these walls? HAHA JK

My favorite 1.  This could happen pretty easily in 1 day with a cherry picker.

evolution of a design

I've been really obsessing over doing my own murals lately.  I worked on these designs for a proposal in my sketchbook over the weekend.  The ideas start out really flat then gain some depth.   My favorites are 4 and 7.  I've only done 1 or 2 murals/signs in spray paint but I think it would be really cool to try to make some of those textures you get with pencil and marker with the spray paint.  

  

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Anti-Drone Battalion

This design is called something like Anti-Drone Battalion, Peace Dove Brigade, Bleeding Heart Division.   I hope to different parts of this design in multiple paintings and prints. The one with the yellow background is finished but I still need to finish the drone on the red and blue background paintings.  I like working on multiples and using this graphic style.

Shadow Profile - stages of production in the studio

I worked on this piece, Shadow Profile, in April and May of 2018.  These are some process shots from inside my studio showing different stages.  The whole piece was made by sewing 7 pieces of standard printmaking and watercolor paper together to make 1 larger "quilted" piece of paper.  On this piece of paper I glued down inkjet enlargements of images I had selected for this piece.  Once the images had been glued down onto the larger piece of paper I painted out the lighter areas with black paint, leaving an overall dark piece with the sewn lines still exposed.   Once the lighter areas were painted out with black paint I used a mop and painted a faint blue swirl over the entire piece.  I always wanted to experiment with using a mop to paint after seeing Warhol's large skull paintings.  Once the blue swirl dried and I repainted some of the black I cut the piece into vertically angled strips and sewed them back together at a staggered angle.  I wanted to reference the way rocks are stratified during earthquakes with these vertical angles.  

Inkjet enlargements glued down to the larger piece of "quilted" paper

The lighter ares partially painted black with a blue swirl painted over the whole piece.

More light areas painted over with black, the piece laying on the floor.

All the lighter areas painted over with black and whole piece of paper cut/torn and partially sewn back together.

almost complete but still a few more vertically angled cuts to make in the whole piece

completed and hanging on my studio wall

When We Are Gone

Small Sewn Pieces

I've been working in the studio on some new small pieces.  These are all under 25 inches, some as small as 6 or 7 inches.  

Guitar Finds Home

My Guitar painting has found a home in suburban Seattle!

Guitar 

40 x 30in Oil on Canvas

Installed

Happy Art Collector

Below the Surface

I was happy to be apart of this show at the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn and to have sold this piece, Former Swamp

install shot

Former Swamp

New sewn paper constructions

architecture of the past

so far untitled

untitled

detail right

untitled

detail left

time crystal

time crystal (detail)

time crystal (detail)

Former Swamp