Progress....

Well, I made some progress today, but not much. With my wife at work and my 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter running rampant throughout the home like wild beasts as I try to paint, I'll take what I can get. I had to paint in bursts. During one of my breaks chasing the kids down I got sidetracked by some older work I came across. I shot some pics and will post some later. Very different than the murals and kids art that I've been painting but I am interested in discovering how that older work informs the stuff I'm doing now. Anyway, here is a pic of what little progress was made on "The Ice Skater and the Ermine."

Moany and Lalla's

I've been at the computer the past two days getting the new paintings ready for Moany and Lalla's over at Etsy. The prints look great and I think they show really well on etsy. I was hoping to have this series "Daydreams for the Ice Skater" done before the Olympics were over but I only have half of them complete and two more partially started so that's probably not going to happen. Where does the time go?

You can buy prints here.

Will the arctic paintings ever be finished?

Probably not before winter is over. Thought I would post a progress pic of the next one. I have painted over this one several times. I don't think my initial plan is going to work. It is an ermine leading our girl out of some underbrush. There is a lot of work left to be done on this one.

Sheep Sketches

I did these sketches for a client interested in a couple of paintings for their home. Should be some fun paintings if they go ahead with it.

Valentine's Day!

Roses on a budget! My wife loves white roses so I took some tissue paper we had in the basement and spent a ridiculous amount of time making 2 dozen paper roses. No water required.

T-shirt designs

I am doing some design work for some t-shirts. This design was rejected but I thought it was pretty cool.

The first three

Here are the first three arctic paintings.

Another Arctic Painting

The third painting. Our ice skater makes her way slowly across a creek in pursuit of an arctic fox who may or may not know the way to a nice frozen pond to skate on.

Ready for Spring

With spending all the time on the arctic paintings lately and the dreariness outside, my mind has turned to spring. I started doing some sketches for a new series of paintings about a first grade play about spring.

More Arctic Art!

Our little heroine meets a friendly polar bear who helps her on her way.

I have been doing a lot of house painting to pay the bills so I haven't had as much time on these as I had hoped. Slowly but surely.

Arctic Painting

The first in a new series of paintings. These are following a little girl through the arctic as she looks for a place to ice skate. There are six planned pieces. Since mural work is pretty slow hopefully I can get these finished up fairly quickly. My basement studio is freezing so I'm working on the dining room table which thrills my wife and kids.

Holiday Slowdown

The holidays have pretty much brought my painting to a standstill. Hopefully, once the new year rolls around things will get moving get moving again.

Here is one half of the flowers I painted for a lucky girl. It will continue over the window and onto the other wall. The paint was very thin and took about 4 coats of paint. Needless to say, a little more time-consuming than I thought.

I did some stripes for a jack and jill bathroom between two very pink girl's rooms. I'm going to be painting silhouettes of flowers in one girl's room and polka dots in the other. Not quite murals but still fun.

I had a pretty good day at the J-Town Holiday Bazaar despite the low attendance. That's the last one for a while. Time to get back to painting.

J-Town Holiday Bazaar

Thanks to a late cancellation, I'll be participating in the J-Town Holiday Bazaar at J-Town High School. It is from 9 to 3 on Saturday. Sorry I don't have much more info but they just called to let me know. I do know that there are over 120 booths. Should be a good show. I have plenty of holiday art, prints and cards left from Winterfair! so hopefully I can unload some of it. If you are in Louisville come by.

Winterfair!

I had a great show at Winterfair! I decided to be Bold and Cold and it was really freaking cold but I will definitely be back next year. I will have to bring a lot more christmas cards though as I sold out early on.

Faux Finish in Shiraz Bathrooms

After the menu and logo I started on the bathrooms. I did a really cool textured finish in some very bright colors.

Shiraz Logo Painting

I got the logo put up at Shiraz. After I finished their menu at their Frankfort Ave. location I took down their old one and painted their logo on the back. Here it is.

WinterFair!

This Friday and Saturday I will be at WinterFair selling some original paintings and prints for kids as well as some holiday stuff I've done. If you are in Louisville swing by and say hello. More info can be found here.