A Drive with Jack

This is a "series" of paintings done for an art show I had at my house, and, frankly, the deadline came up too fast. I want to redo these with black birds done in enamel at the top of each painting. Will most likely complete the series soon. Or will work on a series of illustrations for a book I have in mind. Hmmm...

Narwhals!

Well, folks, below are pics of two paintings of three that I made for the "A Murder of Crows" show curated by my friend Linda at Gallery Meltdown (inside Meltdown Comics) in Los Angeles. Each artist invited was asked to do a painting based on a grouping of animals, and I was assigned, "a pod of narwhals". I should note that there is now a gleaming highlight in the rainbow-y narwhal's eye. There is also a third narwhal painting. Having a deadline has been great, but I really need to just paint way, way more, with or without a deadline. More posts to come.

The first paintings on the blog!

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Just FYI - I will shortly be posting some pictures of artwork I have made. Just have to scan and photograph some. I have not shown art in 10 years, but suddenly had one art show and then a quasi-art show in the space of two weeks! I did six peices in about a month. It felt great to show some work. After a decade of completely dropping out of the gallery system, I feel very free of the whole art school preciousness thing - the quiet gallery: haunting sounds coming from a video monitor somewhere, echoing against a concrete floor. Young people looking waif-like and miserable; older people that all remind me of Steve Martin, or have the last name, "Levinthal" (no offense!). Overuse of the word "juxtapose". You know what I mean. Ugh.
No! I have discovered illustration! Comics! The beauty of a really well-done line! This is my taste right now! In finally looking around again, I'm a little taken aback by the proponderance of big-headed people and of robots, but, hey, it's all good! All stuff I love to doodle. Rainbows! Humor! Something small! Something from Etsy!
I'm sure much of this can get old sooner or later, but I am sure of this: If I don't create something, I don't really live a good life. It's good to pop my head up and look around. The ideas I have in my head are still reaching for something sort of new, I suppose - or something that at least feels new to me - but it's not associated with any kind of art-world anxiety at all anymore. I am waking up.