so close. I painted until exhaustion and am happy with where the painting is... I resolved most compositional issues and now the finalizing. the cage form needs a bit of tweaking, its interior spaces, the thicker areas of "drapey" paint, and the interior of the large orb needs building up of paint / reds / oranges / perhaps some refining of ( Read more... )

so I forced myself into the studio and into the painting tonight after a good but exhausting day of other art-related meetings, etc.
I need to take a few minutes away.
I actually like those moments where I open up to "things" and the emo floodgates slam open.
this painting is excruciatingly delicate and forcing me to be less aggressive in some ways ( ( Read more... )

ok I am sharing this:

everything is accelerating and intensifying.

the painting I am working on is quite possibly one of the best if not the best one to date. it's surely taking its sweet time and pressuring me with its demands of hyperfocus, subconscious journeying, and detail work. the levels of difficulty with each subsequent piece build if I let ( Read more... )

finally there is more paint applied to canvas. I'm at that crazy high pressure point where I am just deciding to not sleep tonight / now this morning / to get at least a little more painting done and my show invites for tonight at Souk. I am about to completely lock myself in for 2 to 3 weeks, and judging by my timeline and deadlines, it looks like ( Read more... )

Painting No. 2 has begun.

breakthroughs are happening.
no pun intended.

happily I am on my way back outside to resume work on painting 1... progress has been made tonight... 
I have made a breakthrough in certain ways with it... am hitting some difficulties still, but working through them... 
it is demanding its time.

other things today and tonight include some impromtu art dialogue and mentoring. time consuming but ( Read more... )

  Conceptual foundation ~

A continuation and further exploration of the following themes and bodies of work:

~ the crossover. a crossover of relationships. where does one life cross over the next? where is the dividing line? what elements are in each separate space and which are shared, merging together? what is on the crossover line itself (or plane ( Read more... )

it's time ( Read more... )

http://launchpadgallery.org/upcoming-shows/Read more... )

so I have transitioned more and more to private art dealer contemplating a space at some point soon and future ventures ( Read more... )