tiny Spam

Spam 004 / 5" x 7" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at: High Desert Gallery, Bend Oregon

First Solo Exhibition

My first solo show was a success!  Great turnout and pretty good pre-sales and sales on the opening night.  I am humbled and grateful.  Thank you, A Gallery for giving me the chance!  And thank you all, for taking the time out of your schedule to attend the reception.

Laundromat 023

Laundromat 023 / 40" x 25" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Gas Station 002

Gas Station 002 / 84" x 16" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Urinal Row 001

Urinal Row 001 / 48" x 12" / oil on canvas / 2010

This was loosely based on a men's restroom at JFK Airport in New York City.
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Whole Foods 009

Whole Foods 009 / 96" x 15" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Subway 002

Subway 002 / 60" x 14" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Homeless 001

This is definitely not one of my best executed painting technically(not that I ever have painted well) but it is a subject matter I had to get onto the canvas. There are alot of subject matters and ideas and spaces that float around in my head that seem very interesting to me but not necessarily translate successfully on canvas.  Obviously I am not so much interested in the figure itself, but rather, I am more interested in composing as a whole: the figure, the setting, its essence and its position in context.  This was something I just had to get off my chest.

Homeless 001 / 16" x 20" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Beer Can 001

Beer Can 001 / 12" x 9" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Tribasco

4" x 11" (tryptich) / oil on panels / 2010

available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Pilsner, Wheat, Amber, Stout

Pilsner, Wheat, Amber, Stout / 5" x 7" (4 set) / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Subway 001

Subway 001 / 30" x 24" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at: 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Spam 003

Spam 003 / 14" x 11" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at: 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

Laundromat 022

Laundromat 022 / 16" x 12" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at: 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City Utah

New York Taxi Cab 001

New York Taxi Cab 001 / 48" x 12"/ oil on canvas / 2010
available at : 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Laundromat 021

Laundromat 021 / 20" x 24" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at: 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Laundromat 020

24" x 16" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at: 'A' Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Laundromat 019

Laundromat 019 / 40" x 30" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at A Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Laundromat 018

Laundromat 018 / 24" x 30" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at 'A' Gallery

Cheez-It

This was another commissioned piece.

Cheez-It 001 / 8" x 10" / oil on canvasboard / 2010

More Tabasco

Tabasco 004 / 9" x 12" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at : http://www.agalleryonline.com/

Stables

This was a commissioned piece.
54" x 14" / oil on canvas / 2010

Theater 002

17" x 27" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

BICA show

Great turnout.  Thanks everyone!

Trailer Park 001

98" x 18" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at BICA

Union Pacific 026

72" x 14" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at BICA

More glazing

This painting has a mixture of a Transparent Earth Yellow and Transparent Gold Ochre glaze.

Glazing, Gravity & Godspeed

OK, after being under the heater for a full day, the painting is dry 'to the touch'.  I usually do my glazing with my painting lying flat. The reason for this is that I am relying on gravity to pull the pigments into the cracks and valleys of my brush strokes.  This contributes to the grungy feel that I am after.

I have a few days to finish my last 3 paintings for the show, including this one.  Sometimes i wish I painted in acrylics, as it dries instantly......nah, oils is still my favorite medium.  It's funny when something was introduced to you at 18, it tends to stick with you.  I was listening to Echo & the Bunnymen while I was doing this, by the way.

Dry painting,dry!

I threw out all my driers back in the 90's knowing that they were all very toxic: copal medium, cobalt drier, and Japan drier.  So nowadays, I speed up the drying time on my paintings by heat only, and of course time. As you know, oil paintings do not dry by evaporation of water but rather oxygenation of the oil and pigments.  After some research the only methods that would speed up the oils to a degree of solid form is to add heat and alcohol.  So after I am done with a painting and need for it to dry quickly, I will spray a little alcohol and sit it in front of a heater.  Titanium white and all cadmiums takes the longest to dry and surprisingly Yellow Ochre too!  The reason for the rush is that I still do a glazing process after the painting is dried to the touch.

If anyone knows a better method, I'd love to know!

Laundromat 017

24" x 16" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at: http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Final glazes were Sap Green and Transparent Orange.  Then a Burnt Umber and Ultramarine glazes to the right and bottom.

Santa Monica Freeway 003

84" x 14" / oil on canvas / 2010

available at http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Steel Bridge 001

Not so pleased with this one, but I need to move on.  This is based on a bridge in Portland, Oregon.
24" x 12" / oil on canvas / 2010
Available at: http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Garage 021

27" x 17" / oil on canvas / 2010
available at: http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

More Tabasco paintings

Tabasco 003 / 8" x 10" / oil on canvasboard / 2010

Available at http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Spam 002

8" x 10" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
Available at: http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Union Pacific 025

I have two big shows coming up this year:  a four-person group show in April at my new local representation, BICA Gallery, and my first solo show in October at the A Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah.  So you will notice images that may or may not be familiar.  When there is a specific request by clients, I will paint an image again, and this is an example of it.  Although it may not appear that I am exploring new visions or continuing on a linear, progressive path, part of that journey is to revisit an old painting and doing it again to make it better, at least try to.
8" x 10" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
Available at: http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Laundromat 016

This painting's compostion was based on the Golden Section.  As you can see, I didn't stay strictly to the golden rule's divisional lines.

48" x 30" / oil on canvas / 2010
Available at: http://www.agalleryonline.com/

Garage 20

Garage 020 / 14" x 11" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at http://www.bicagallery.com/beta2/

Garage 019

14" x 11" / oil on canvasboard / 2010
available at http://www.stewartgallery.com/