I be Strokin’…or just Painting

Soon after drawing begins to become stagnant painting comes in as the next obvious step. It’s drawing with color. Its the next leap into the world of creating imagery that will take you places out of the monochromatic realm (mostly). It is beautiful. I DO NOT claim to be any type of master nor do I lay claim to be one of the best. I simply enjoy what I do and will always do it. This will be my personal painting post. I will be listing paintings that I have done in categories of medium used. I feel it necessary to warn you that some of this is completely absurd and some of these pieces may be found to be inappropriate by some viewers as well as advocates and what-nots-or-the-others. These pieces do not always reflect my true personality, however this stuff did enter my head at some point so I’ll leave you to be the judge. I, simply stated,  have a ridiculously twisted sense of humor. So please check them out . I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed painting them.

First I will start with Water colors. This is a medium that I have yet to explore all the possibilities with. I have studied and understand them and want to go for the gusto with it eventually. Here are a few that I have utilized the medium with.

101_1326 Kurt Cobain finger painting 11×14 circa 1994

101_1320 untitled finger painting 11×14 circa 1994

101_1032 “Artist’s block” aka “headache” 18×24 This piece has a great personal story for me and came out on a whim completely at random.

Acrylic paintings.

101_0652 boba fett 11×14 1998

101_1270 “the struggle” 11×14 circa ’98 or ’99

101_0638“Some dogs go to hell” 11×14

101_0602 “A wing and a prayer” 18×24

101_0590 “Peep this” 16×20 Currently owned by a good friend.IMG_2075 Beetlejuice 18×18 2013

IMG_2022 “One king” Bela Lugosi 18×18 2013

IMG_0882  Julio Jones fast painting 16×20 2013

101_1219 this was a large commission piece at least 3×7′ 2007

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101_1334 John Lennon finger painting 11×14 circa 1994

IMG_1840 Commission for The 6th Street Pier in Griffin Ga roughly 2×4′ Located on the front of a metal portable bar not currently in plain view at the restaurant.

Oil paintings.

101_0778 “A view from Gan’s” 18×24 This piece actually took a blue ribbon in the Georgia National Fair amateur art show.

000_0026 Jesus 16×20 2003

101_0974 “Throwing away the future” 24×36

101_0922 (detail) This piece has tons of personal meaning and zero resale value. Just had to paint it.

IMG_0886101_1609  “Need Some, Spare Some” 2 pieces approx. 24×24 each (sorry about the bad pic on the first one. Will try and get a better one soon) 2008

Here you have a chunk of examples and there are still tons more to add to all of these! just need to find and/or take pictures of more. I think its boring to give it all up at once though, don’t you? Stay engaged and keep looking. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

Gotta hand it to you

One day I sketched this tiny two inch picture of a grotesquely deformed creature hand. IMG_4177

Years passed by and I saw it again. I wanted create a larger sculptural art piece with massive work involved. I formed a base line for it using wire aluminum foil and deer antlers (I don’t hang them on my walls I destroy them and turn into much creepier objects)Below is my armature form.

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Pretty cool I thought. Again years pass by. Clay was finally put on the piece and it began to take form. Another long period of time passes by, I know, this is ridiculous right? Of course it is but, it’s all true. 2013-2014 arrives and I’m finally ready to detail the darn thing. After some minor reworking it is finally sculpted to completion. Here it is in the works (first five pics)and then finished (last seven pics.)

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A little bit of fine tuning to the detail has been done and the piece has been baked. Yes I baked it in the oven. For this piece I used super sculpey which is a type of polymer clay that can be baked to harden to a ceramic type stiffness. Also can be found at your local big box craft stores.

The piece is now in another static state of waiting for paint and finishing work. 🙂 I’ll have to get back to you on this one.