artwork
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still a character
Here are a few of the artworks I’ve recently sent to Joseph Gierek Fine Art (www.gierek.com) for the upcoming Holiday Art Show. I’m sure you’ll notice my “still life” object practice work now combined with characters. Yes, I’m trying to make every element count toward the visual story. You know, like a writer tries to…
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peppers and burgers oh my and artist books too
Chef Kim Mahan came to my studio for a visit and made some decisions about recipes. We are cooking with real butter now! Meaning major progress towards having a real live published cookbook has occurred. It is an artist book. Which means it’s an unconventional cookbook. It’s not bound in the traditional sense. It’s artwork…
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Heroes Journey arrives at WSU Vancouver today
In my last post (here) I was packing up a new public art piece for delivery to Washington State University Vancouver. In my post I was planning for rain. It was a good thing I did because it rained today! Very light rain as we walked the art from the car to the building where…
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packing public art for delivery
Soon I’m delivering art to the Washington State University Vancouver campus. I’m excited! I’m also delivering the artwork incognito. It’ll be unveiled Oct 4th so the art-content is top-secret till then so only a teaser peek allowed here. There’s no rain in the weather forecast for delivery day but I’m not taking chances. I’ve protected…
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feline fuzzy
It’s finally begun raining regularly here in the Pacific Northwest and I love it. Today the rainy cool air made me think of contentment and fur. Here’s artwork of Persian cat that is drying on my worktable. The cat’s name is “Harold”.
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art messes math mistakes and teachers
I’ve had the cold/flu/crud for the last week. I’m feeling better now and wanted to “do something creative”. Trouble is I still suddenly sneeze and cough so using sharp xacto knives, loaded ink brushes and glue laden papers is more hazardous and messy than usual. What to do? Then I thought – I know several teachers…
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the inspiration lab
A neighbor asked me to take care of her three Labradors while she was away. Each time, as I served up doggy dinner, one of the dogs “sang” in a sweet baritone – thus inspiring my artwork pictured above titled “Lyrical Lab”. This is one of the artworks that will be in an exhibit opening…
