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Zombie horse Hana!
Zinefest with the girls today!!! Here’s some of our favorite loot. Great talking to all the amazing artists.
For about a year, in the 80’s, my mom, brother, and I lived in a little living space in the Odwalla Warehouse in Davenport. It was spacious but we slept on couches. The owner was mean but it was good roughing it fun times. Every time we eat at
The Incredibly Strange Films book was a Bible to me in high school and beyond. As a young man I had the amazing fortune to work with and befriend Herb Robins, Ted V Mikels, and Ray Dennis Steckler. I learned about all three of them from that book. Th
All That Could Have Been
I’m getting there. I can’t paint a straight line to save my life but it’s looking pretty good. I hated the vampire mask I was going to paint. But it feels weird and loaded to not paint a head. I’ll figure it out. Frustrated
I know there’s a good dirty joke in here…..
Last night’s progress. It’s a start
That “interesting” feeling when you gesso over a painting on a $500 canvas only to remember in the middle of the night that the background was all done in oil paint. Not happy is putting it mildly.
Broken
It was an Andre kinda day
Updated my website a little. Link in my bio. I’ve added some of the horror and realistic paintings I’ve been doing the last year or so. There are so many voices on fb and Instagram, thanks for listening
I didn’t know much about Diego Rivera outside of Frida Kahlo. Cool to dive in. #diegorivera
All Those Things They Told You About Love
Just getting started on this one.
Finished a painting this morning! It’s Getting Late.
Went to @mattieleedspottery ’s for Doon Arts today. Creature 2 got a pig pot. First pic is of Creature 1 in 2017. Mattie showed me what he’s been working on lately: wild, dysfunctional, some figurative, pots. Super inspiring!
Started a new painting tonight and I don’t paint faces very often but I’m just in love with this one. Looks haunted to me.

Finishing up a commission

We Live in a Cave II. Mixed media on canvas. 48"x36"

We Live in a Cave II. Mixed media on canvas. 48"x36"

Just finished up a commission of We Live in a Cave II. This one is varnished, wired, and ready for delivery. Yes, I will do commissions. Ask me.

This painting was done a little backwards. Normally, I paint a background, let it dry, and then paint the figure over the top. With this painting I painted the black background last. Below are some phone camera pics of the process. I did the fire ladies first, painting about fifty layers of reds and oranges and yellows with paint and a glazing medium to keep the layers semi-transparent. Then, I chalked in the figures, and painted the dark background in thin brown and black layers.

The pics below are not really a step-by-step but give a bit of a glimpse of the early process.

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