Sometimes our personal life bleeds into every aspect of our lives, despite our best efforts to stop it. For me I've had a bad case of "Artist's Block" the last several months, and that has recently changed. You see, we have been trying to conceive a child for the last three years, undergoing infertility treatments for half of that. It has been a long and arduous journey, that has taken it's Read More
I found inspiration for a new project in an email, if you can believe that! A friend and her daughters tried to rescue a baby squirrel, they named Tiny Tim. Attached to the email were several pictures she had taken of him with the family (see below).
“…we fed him a banana last night, and he fell asleep in the palm of my hand. We put him in his
Read MorePuppies are Biodegradable Artist Statement I started working on pieces for this show to help raise awareness about the horrors that go on in Puppy Mills. In the beginning I knew bad things were happening, I'd heard rumors, but I wasn't really prepared to see for myself. The research for this show was the most gruesome and difficult thing I've ever done for my art. There were many Read More
I finished "St. Bernard Rescue Dog" a few nights ago and I'm focusing my attention on "Scenic Puppy Mill" now. Once I finish both, I'll post images. Oak Leaf Artist Guild Update: I have the layout and overall design of the website figured out, in most part; I'm just waiting for the domain to be transfered to get started. In the designs I showed the guild for the website Read More
"What I think is lacking is a sense of believable light. Everything feels too evenly rendered - and your perspective has to be perfect with this kind of realism. However, areas are exquisite especially the card - shadow, reflected light, lettering all perfect." Eric Shultis - judge from Look of Love Show. I really appreciated his comments; they were straight forward, to the point, and helpful. It's Read More
It's been a busy Holiday Season this year. So much so, that I haven't had a chance to post in a while. With the exhibit downtown at the Fleischman Hillard Building for Art St. Louis, and the Holiday Show at Framations I've been very busy doing finishing some new work, framing, matting, and getting everything ready (Pictures coming soon). With the hustle and bustle of Christmas I'm going to Read More
The meet and greet last Sunday went well. I'd like to thank everyone who stopped by to say hi and see my artwork. I found a way to make great looking prints of my smaller works and had some 5x7 and 8x10 prints ready for the show last Sunday. I'm thinking about opening a web store to sell some of them, but I'd really like to get my process Read More
I've been busy adding little blerbs for each piece in my gallery. It's difficult to describe art, so in most cases I just explain what I was thinking when I painted them, or what they mean to me now.. hopefully entertaining if not enlightening. My to do list from last week. Find a place that prints professional business cards and pamplets relatively cheap. They should arrive tomorrow! Finish creating a promotional Read More
Today I went through and added dates, medium, and dimensions to my gallery. I have a couple more to do, but it's a start. I'm going to try and get some background info and interesting tidbits about each piece soon.
There has been a lot going on lately, which prevented me from entering the other two shows last month. I really want to keep this website up to date, but I don't want to bog it down with personal stuff.. so I decided while I'm in this slow period I would work on this website more, as time allows. Today I added personal comments to each of the Read More