Eagle Gate Progress

This is a painting of a sculpture called Eagle Gate that spans state street (a 6 lane road). I am making a little faster progress now that I have mapped out the perspective which took a while but has proven worth the effort. I am getting ready to really go to town with bringing in the texture wish me luck.

Buddha

This is a small mixed media piece I recently finished using recycled magazine pages. I thought the soft silhouette was most fitting for the subject matter. Being only 8x10 and fairly simple shapes as well as shading it went really fast. I was able to complete the whole piece in about 5 hours which is lightening fast for this type of piece. Some of the larger more complicated pieces can take 50 or more hours to complete.

Central Park West

I just finished this piece, something a little different from what I have been doing. This is from a photo I took in Central Park its the view from my friends favorite picnic spot. It took a lot of pushing and pulling the tones to get the effect to work but I m happy with it. 

Fancy Dancer Abstract

This is the latest addition to what I hope will eventually be a series of abstracts based on Native American pow wow dancers. This is based on a photo of a fancy dancer I took at a pow wow at the University of Utah a few years ago.

Jefferson Market Library

This piece always bothered me it just always looked more like an architects rendering then an actual real place, not to mention some other concerns. As I worked through the Bodhi Tree piece I finally figured out what bothered me most is that it was missing the garden at the back of the building.  So I went in and made myself a garden and fixed a few other small details that have been bugging me and I think I am finally happy with it (if not the picture which came out a little flat..sorry)

Abstract

I just finished this abstract based on a Native American dancer at a pow wow I went too. I have taken a lot of photograph's at pow wow's but I can never seem to catch the incredible flow and movement of the dancers with a simple photograph.

Duck Duck Goose

I finally finished this peace after several delays. It has been a really fun process and allowed me to reconnect with an old friend and mentor (thanks for the orange feet Bob). I associate the game duck duck goose with fond childhood memories which is what inspired this rather silly painting. If you are not familiar with the classic kids game duck duck goose the game is played by A group of players sit in a circle, facing inward, while another player, the 'picker' (a.k.a. the 'fox'), walks around tapping or pointing to each player in turn, calling each a duck until finally picking one to be a 'goose' The 'goose' then rises and chases and tries to tag the 'picker', while the 'picker' tries to return to and sit where the 'goose' had been sitting. If the picker succeeds, the 'goose' is now the new picker and the process begins again. If the 'goose' succeeds in tagging the picker, the 'goose' may return to sit in the previous spot and the 'picker' resumes the process. Anyway it was a good break after the vary long process of the bodhi tree piece. I really like those pieces but they can be very consuming to complete.