"Piggymandias", 9x12... New beginnings, honoring endings.

 

I regret that time between updates has been measured in months or even years, due to circumstances, but hopefully that issue has come to an end. Recent changes in financial circumstances dictate that I simply must paint, period. So, painting and selling should be a regular thing again, starting about now.

 

Ironically, the new start is posted in honor of recent endings (Breaking Bad). I finished this up not too long after a ride to New Mexico... Originally I was going to call it "Awesome Pink Pig", since that's what I thought when I saw the piggy bank for sale in Target, but the artsy side won out, so with a nod to Vince Gilligan and Percy Bysshe Shelley, look upon the new title, ye mighty, and... Enjoy!

"Piggymandias" - 9" x 12" oil on Ray-Mar canvas panel

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"Juniper Cow" 8x10, while re-modeling

 

A series of minor disasters over the holidays had me running around for a bit. Total net change for the last six weeks of life is that I gained a nice vacuum cleaner, and I lost my car. Since New Year's I've acquired a nice new easel, too, which has required a full week-long tear out/clean/re-organize of my studio space.

 

I finally made use of a cow-shaped butter dish I picked up at German Deli, which is nicely located right up the road (in Texas terms) from my residence. The juniper sprig is a clipping from a decorative tree in the parking lot of the Costco where I bought the new Dyson.

"Title" - 8" x 10" oil on Ray-Mar linen panel

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The Bear is Back. "Chrome Bear On Red"

 

Here again is my holiday friend, the strangest ornament ever to grace a Jo-Ann's shelf, the Chrome Bear. The berries were trimmed from a bush in downtown Grand Prairie just across the street from the farmer's market, and I have no idea what they actually are. I think the red is out of my system now, and I'll work on blue paintings for the next week or so.

"Title" - 8" x 10" oil on Ray-Mar oil-primed linen panel

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Back just in time for Thanksgiving.

 

I hate long haituses (hiati? haitii?). I've been squeezing art into the cracks of chaos whenever possible, but fortunately things seem to be settling down around here. I have some temp work coming up between now and December, meshed in with the usual end-of-year reorganizing and resupply.

 

The first thing I'm pulling off of the "Things I've Done Since July" pile is called "Three Sizes". These apples were indeed wee, nae'-sa-wee, and f-in' HUGE! I have some Scottish heritage, but you won't find this sold at Everything Scottish. It's up in my shop instead.

"Three Sizes" - 8" x 10" oil on Ray-Mar linen panel

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"Jade Buddha's Apple"

 

My schedule is still a bit volatile at the moment, which makes it difficult to set up still life paintings with perishable subjects. At the moment apples are the only thing around that last for more than a couple of painting days. Here again is my little jade buddha figurine (difficult to depict as ever) with a "Southern Rose" apple.

 

"Title" - 8" x 6" oil on Ray-Mar canvas panel

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Six Weeks, Second Job, "Plum Buddha" 8x10 - SOLD

 

Six weeks plus is far too long to go without posting... I've picked up a job after eight months of looking and that has bitten into my painting schedule a bit.

 

I purchased a 10-pack of 8x10 double oil primed Ray-Mar panels last month and I think I've fallen in love with these things... They even smell good. It's frustrating to finish a painting and have it not seem as good as the surface deserves. I've painted a bunch lately but there are only a couple of survivors that I'm not going to immediately recycle through the "Paint Over This" pile. I picked up this Buddha statue at Whole Foods, of all places, and right near it was a bin full of "Texas plums". The plums tasted awful, but they were good subjects.

"Plum Buddha" - 8" x 10" oil on double oil-primed Ray-Mar canvas panel

SOLD!

 

"New Lily" sketch to get back in the swing of things - SOLD

 

That creaking noise is the sound of rusty artistic gears beginning to turn again... I've been away due to lack of supplies, and some time well spent with other people socializing (gasp!) this past weekend. I'll have pictures of that event up on Flickr later. In the meantime here's a leftover mother's day lily - really a quick painted sketch of a late blossom, painted cautiously with some new paints:

"New Lily" - 6" x 8" oil on Ray-Mar canvas panel

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