Tribute Complete

Rememember: This is not the greatest painting in the world, this is just the tribute.

The Tribute

Finally, I have posted something unfinished. See if you can follow this story (it's kind of like that Tenacious D song):

This is a sketch of a tribute painting to the greatest painting I have ever worked on (which is M.I.A.). The original work was a large-scale collaboration created for S.P.P.'s Hidden Paradise show/dance event in Saginaw a few years ago. The title: "Two Celebrities Puking into each other's Mouths". It was a stark stroke of perfection...

I hope to work on this and complete it in between baby feeding sessions.

Long Drive Champion

Here is a portrait of a European long drive champion. He looks confident about his golf abilities, whoever he is. As always, click on the picture for INSANE DETAIL.

Animals Reclaim Detroit

Apparently, the word on the street is that no one lives in Detroit anymore. For the record, that is false. But I read an article online that explored the recent trend of animals and foliage retaking the worn-down city. This painting is loosely based on that article and was as part of a series for Motor Detroit Magazine, a new publication designed my my friend Mike Leser. Check out the website here.

Matt Anderson or someone else much more successful.

I'm not really sure where this one came from. I guess I was watching too many Tigers games back in the spring and they seeped into my subconscious. Make sure to click on the image for a large detail. Some of the color and texture change is pretty subtle.

Nonsense creatures are typically the best type of creatures.

This is one of two artworks I did for NeoMu 7 - a strange little publication - back in 2004. I don't have a digital version of the other one anymore but it was made of Playdough and later scanned in against the glass.

A Stray

This painting is a little different than what normally comes from me, but I am happy with how it turned out. I must have finished this sometime around May. Becky hates birds, so I had to hide this one from her. 

...catching up continued.

Here we have two paintings I worked on earlier in the spring. Both are based on fuzzy 8mm home video stills from 1982. The upper painting is of my father and the lower painting of my mother.

I have some catching up to do...

Well, it has been a year, so I figure I should go ahead and post some more art. It's not like I haven't been painting or anything. I will start with a painting that is years old, but I just recently finished it. (More to come in the next couple of days.)