Woot! Two days in a row for the first time in forever.

Feeling normal again. Actually spending time painting, and not totally immersed in websites. I mean websites are cool and all but I love painting. It's been weird not doing much of it.....I guess that is what happens when they turn you down from MCAD. Ha, don't really know why I wanted to go anyway. I'd rather just go to Minneapolis and hang out with my friend kelly.

But anyway, not to disappoint, I finished my second painting for the boutique in New York finally. I think it's pretty rad. The bird house series is starting to become more extensive, and that is allowing me to get more into the character of the birds. Good stuff. Also helps me to build more character into the bird houses themselves.

Anyway....

The blue bird rock continues. I don't know what it is about blue birds but they sure rock...maybe it's the state bird of new york thing, or maybe it's that all of the school buses were blue bird buses. I don't know, but blue birds rock at least as hard as the stones do. Or rather at least as hard as sixty something year old rolling stones.....



I was just invited to be in the May show at the Hive Gallery, and this is my first sketch for my piece. It's my first attempt at one of the more exaggerated looking birds. It also goes right along with chinese poetry.

until then....

New Paintings, Growing Used to New Hampshire and Starting a Web Design Business

So I know I know, I haven't put anything up here since February.....

Slacker!

It's not that I haven't been working though. Although, truth be told I've mainly been trying to teach myself how to be a web designer, which by the way I am not doing to badly at. I've been working on www.tincanwebworks.com, (TinCan Web Works is the name that Beth's brother and I have been working under) So far so good, just need to update things so as not to be ripping people off.

Here's a banner off a site that is never going to launch because the guy that was trying to put it up was absolutely crazy......

I really like the banner, but that is about all that I am absolutely sold on.

I've also been working on a few paintings. Mostly for the "After the Ice Caps" series, but I've also been working up a couple birds with birdhouses for a boutique in New York, and a couple paintings for the Hive Gallery in California.

This is one of the two paintings that I will be sending to the boutique in New York this week.
I am so in love with this series. This is supposed to be a male house finch. I've started only doing birds in this series that I see at my feeder this summer. Sounds like a plan to me. Did I mention that I am glad that it is finally spring.......

This is the painting that I did for the "Avatar" show at the Hive Gallery. My Avatar is the Mighty Sparrow. Half mighty mouse and half Run DMC. The idea of having an Avatar is kind of ridiculous and I love it.....

This is a self portrait that I drew out shortly after walking around the ICA in Boston. A guy was doing a bunch of pieces using speakers as different voices representing different cultures in urban areas. Interesting concept but I chose to take it a completely different direction.....

My computer is finally up to date and I'm painting more and sleeping less so I'll probably have some more stuff up soon......

Mattie if you're reading this I've been working on the *expletive* ark.