lower edge is 4″ off floor
view from the stair landing
view from the second floor of the office building
I had a chance to go see and photograph the installation of this corporate commissioned painting I completed this summer. This piece is huge. With five 8′ tall panels, five 4′ tall panels, and five 16″ panels, and [...]
I have been thinking about what sort of car I need to purchase when my gigantic old sedan finally fails. I love my big automobile. It is comfortable on long trips, can haul an amazing amount of stuff for shows, seats six, and while its appearance of luxury is no more, it still feels [...]
I continue to build depth and blend and soften with thin washes. This photo shows the eight foot panels on the ground and the four foot panels on the wall with the squares directly on top of them. It is a bit distorted, but I can only lay out a few at a time and [...]
Still working on the commission for the atrium of an office building. It is about halfway done in these photos. I took these shots with a flash and the colors are a bit off. It is less red and more brown than it appears. It’s just a quick shot of it as it develops. [...]
I drew some lines for reference on the canvas and sketched in the dominant forms on each of the 15 canvasses using a thin mixture of cadmium red light and medium and referring to my gridded sketch for placement. These banch-y areas will ultimately be the chocolate brown my client wants to see in this [...]
The rolls of canvas finally arrived and I had to stretch it. Each roll was 63″ wide and 9 yards long. I lay the canvas on the floor, reminded myself to measure twice, cut once, and cut the panels. I used a staple gun to attach them to the canvas. After three of [...]
Last weekend I took on a commission for a very large painting and I have been working on it quite a lot. There will be five sets of panels across, each measuring 16″ wide and three panels top to bottom, 16″, 48″, and 96″. The overall height will be 14′. The client is working with [...]
Well, I had a melt down at the Eureka Sunday Market a week ago Sunday when the extreme wind knocked over everything in my booth for the kajillionth time and sucked the canopy cover inside out and bent the frame. I had not been feeling well all day and was really run down and then [...]
