"G TP #4"
4"x6" Gouache, Bathroom Tissue, Glue on Board
2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Portrain of Keyu Brownley
"Portrait of Keyu Brownley"
26"x28" Oil, Oil Pastel, and Marker on Unprimed Canvas
2012
(Detail)
Monday, July 2, 2012
Portrait Painting of Corinne Khabbaza
"Portrait of Corinne Khabbaza"
16"x24" Oil on Recovered Wood"
2012
Corinne Khabbaza grew up on the Illinois River in a small town called Meredosia. This is where all those "flying" Asian carp are, but she wasn't much into fishing. Corinne loved cottage cheese as a kid. She would eat it every day and as she grew older she discovered she could taste the slightest differences in every batch. Now as an adult she is the worlds top cottage cheese taste tester. Corrine travels the world taste testing cottage cheese for the industries top producers.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Portrait Painting of Rummage Clarke
"The Legend of Rummage Clarke"
24"x36" Oil on Canvas
2012
A bit of a neighborhood legend Rummage Clarke was the best at what he did. No one questioned it. He untied knots for a living. If it was a tough knot, people came to Rummage. I’m not sure if Rummage was his real name or not. Nobody knew. He had no family that I knew of, no mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, or uncles.
Rummage was a Lebowski like personality. He came and went as he pleased, never questioning his first instinct. He was quick to give a friendly wave and hello, but not much for sparking up a conversation. Folks in the neighborhood loved having him around. The kids loved him because he would take a second to stop and play as he wandered down the street. The adults loved him for his inexplicable knack for defeating the most horrendous, unbelievable, and incomprehensible knots in their shoes in a matter of seconds. People would often come to him just minutes before they had to go to work begging that he conquer the knot in their shoe. He never let them down. Rummage never asked for anything in return for this act of talent and skill. People would just know to give him something when he was in need. A few dollars here and there, enough to pay the rent (there were a surprising amount of knots in this neighborhood). A meal when he was hungry. Do you need a new pair of pants they would ask? The next day they would be waiting at his doorstep.
Rummage enjoyed his craft and took it very seriously. He would approach a knot like a painter agonizing over a color that was just right. He was living the good life. Free from the worries and hardships of the outside world. Amongst all the happy days, Rummage could sense something was about to change for him. It was like he could feel it in the air. Like when you walk outside and just know its going to rain even before you look up to see the dark sky. Change was coming, that much was clear. Rummage just had to figure out what this change was.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Elisa's Giant Squid Story and Painting
"Elisa's Giant Squid"
24"x60" Oil and Enamel on Canvas
2012
Elisa Minton was five years old in 1990. She was from Sheyenne , North Dakota
Her class went to the library once a week. Elisa and each of her classmates were allowed to take home two books a week. She sat down at a table at the center of the large room and began to look at a book about the ocean. Elisa loved books about the ocean and its creatures.
The library had dark blue carpet and she often daydreamed that it was the deep blue ocean. The wooden table that she sat at was her vessel and she was the captain. Elisa looked at the book, mostly at the pictures. She would try to make out as many words as she could. A picture of a giant squid that washed up on an ocean shore in Japan
Elisa began to imagine the giant squid coming to life and swimming around in the blue carpet that surrounded her. The squid was quite ugly in the picture so she imagined it as something that was a bit friendlier. She imagined a pink squid with pretty blue eyes.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Character Growing From Flower Pot
"Character Growing From Flower Pot"
7"x28" Oil on Repurposed Wood
2012
A bird landed on a flower pot in front of an abandoned building in Detroit
Something began to grow from the soil (what did it look like in the early stages of growth?). A plant with large leaves grew over a few weeks. On night (or day) the leaves spread open to reveal a creature the likes of which no one had ever seen.
In the morning when people walked by to go to work they heard a voice giving them complements (I like your hat)(you look wonderful). Peopled turned around to see the creature growing from the flower pot. They asked who are you? What is your name? Where did you come from? What are you?
My name is ________, and I come from ________. Why are you so happy? Why do you say these nice things to us? (why does he/she say all of these nice things?) Because it is what I am meant to do.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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