Inventing Trees: Skeletons

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

When bones dance and hands can see...

Friday, October 31, 2014

Sunset and skeletons

Happy halloween. Rage against the fading light...The brightness will come back again soon.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

More birds keep appearing...

Gathering
(currently in process)
watercolor, graphite, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper
42" x 60"

This is a painting that I am working on for a show in April at the Mayo Street Arts in Portland, Maine: Dr. Goodweather's Dreaming Attic. Things keep showing up in the painting: eyes, birds, cages, bones, hearts, plants, eggs and a large ghost bird. Appropriate, I suppose as it named itself "Gathering." I had little to do with who is showing up here. I am just the conduit. I am just the painter. I am the dreamer.

I just hope they will all stay long enough for the show in April.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

From one to many (progression drawings for January 2014)

January 12, 2014

January 13, 2014

January 14, 2014

January 15, 2014

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The Love Windows...

"You be the king who digs me and I will forever be your queen of hearts."
working prototype/ sketch of interactive puppet windows

This little prototype is fragile and still in process but it will be going down to the Meg Perry Center for the Secret City of the Absent Sane show, opening this First Friday. It is VERY crude and I want feedback and information on what works and doesn't work about it.

I am wondering how easily it will break (or not)? What is about it that draws or repels the viewer? What more (or less) does it need? Does the story need to be interactive? Is it interactive enough?

If you wander into the show (and I hope you will) I'd love to know what you think. If you are not at the show and are looking at it online, I'd still like to know what works or doesn't about this little foray into puppetry.

Thanks!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Creepy little sideways boneman...

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Irreproachable ambiguity: Unknown keys and skeletons

January 4, 2013
3.5 inches by 4.5 inches
graphite
Found Object: key tag (actually it was my key tag that fell out of my pocket before I walked into a school today and then I found when I was leaving the school later in the afternoon.)
Word of the day: Equivocal

January 5, 2013
3.5 inches by 4.5 inches
graphite
Found objects: ribbon, paper with "Name and Date", and staples found in various locations
Word of the Day: Canonize

Sunday, December 30, 2012

End of the year bits...

I am trying to work on several things at once today in the studio and not really succeeding at any of them. My mind is scattered and I don't want to focus.

I have been cutting out choice phrases from a trashy novel for the narrative for my Sketchbook Project piece. Always an amusing thing to do. Now to place them into the pages of my drawings.

I have 32 small pieces of paper prepped for my Fun-A-Day. I intend to create small assemblages with a daily found object and an illustration of the nexus of a word a day and that found object. We'll see what comes of it.

Currently, the follow three paintings are occupying my studio walls. They are mixed media pieces using pastel, watercolor, graphite and acrylic paint on paper. I have a fourth paper waiting to have an image ready to go as well.

Exorcising some Demons
Mixed Media on Paper
22" x 30"

The Heiress (Work in Progress)
Mixed Media on Paper
22" x 30"

The Heart is a Fluttering Bird
Mixed Media on Paper
30" x 44"

Here's to hoping that the new year will be a productive and happy one. I'll be sending Monday evening painting and dancing with my sweetie hoping that it will seep into the deep recesses of 2013.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Death and the Maiden

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Death and the Rabbit

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The things that are subtle are not usually my ideas

February 18, 2012

My interpretation of the fox in Timothy's dream

February 19, 2012

February 20, 2012

No Wire Hangers!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A BirdWoman, Death Lovers, and the Radish Stealer ...

Bird Woman
February 5, 2012

Carrying Death
February 4, 2012

A happy mutation on death?
February 3, 2012

The Radish Stealer
February 2, 2012

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Pushing the image with a blade

For now I am going to continue making both at least one paper doll and one drawing per day. Perhaps these endeavors won't be as publicly executed as they have in the past, but I feel like I can't stop.

I need to push the dolls to whatever it is they are worming themselves into down deep in my psyche. They are trying to say...I am trying to say something with this media and I can't quite figure it out yet. Perhaps I want to push all the saccharine out of the imagery of the dolls and have them be something else...something stronger and slightly menacing.

I have continued drawing but it is private and perhaps not as focused. I pull images from last years crops of drawings to hone down further and finer...waiting for when they will be ready for the larger page...ready for more time.

These paper dolls have forced me to think in terms of pattern and composition. The lines that the scissors cut are more a a commitment than the line that the pencil scribes. This forces me to visualized the doll before it is done, which is something I don't have to do while drawing or even painting. This is good for now.

And for now Rabbit Rabbit.