I feel so old.......

For folks that usually come here just to check new paintings out, I apolgise. At this time I feel like I've got no one left to talk to and like I've dug my own hole. So I am hashing this out on my blog, who is frankly a voiceless and awesome friend to me at this point.

There may have been a time that I thought that starting your own business might be easy. I really can't remember now what my perspective has been over the years. All I know is that, If that was what I thought, I could never have been more wrong.

The pizza shop fired a cook this week, which means I will have to pick up a shift. I now work three doubles a week. I have three days "off", these being days that I work on the web. This morning which is essentially two hours before I go to the pizza shop, I have already been the recipient of two emails from a business guy in Mass that wants updates made to his site.....

I have devoted my creative time to a business, that I now no longer care if it survives.....and I feel so old, like this guy, that came into the shop the other day. It started as a drawing of him, but turned into how I felt like I should look, tired and ready to quit. Sometimes it takes something harsh to realize how much you really liked what you were doing.

Tomorrow is the Concord Arts Market

Tomorrow is the Concord arts Market. This will mark the first time that I go to an art market with an actual tent. It will also be the first time that I am offering prints. For those of you familiar with my website they are the two pieces available through Stella Gialla.....

Rocking House Finch
Blue Bird Rock #3

The prints will be a measly ten bucks ( you know you want to buy both for that price ....! ) I will also be showing about fifteen to twenty originals including several of my sketches and selling copies of my zine that I did with Ivy Page, writer and grad school whiz...... Halo

by the way we are planning another book soon.....It will be bigger faster stronger and better.

But for now, here is a piece that I finished for the show tonight. If you've checked out sketches up on the blog lately you might recognize the character, and the pose for that matter......


Hope to see a bunch of you tomorrow.......and if this included a surprise visit to nh by one awesome K Belly, I would be most pleased......(miss you)

Had to share my new robot

So here we go again....I will be showing my work at the Concord Arts Market in two days and what am I doing? Yes, you guessed it! Scrambling to get some new work done for the show. I don't ever feel prepared, no matter how much work I have to take with me, and this particular show, I haven't had time to prepare for as much as others due to web work.

But here it is, my thoughts on exactly what wearing a tie means to me......or perhaps just a whimsical piece. Either way it is another robot and I am excited about him. There are also a couple more pieces to come in the next two days, so be sure to check back.......

Until next time......Bahwidda bah dih dang dih dang diggy diggy

A New Painting on its way to California

So I just finished my first piece in a long time that actually sports a human being in it. It feels pretty awesome, let me tell you. Who am I kidding? I just finished my first piece in a while anyway, say nothing of with a human being or not......I've been rocking out in my sketchbook, quite a bit and I am starting to feel a little better about presenting my art here....(new hampshire)

There is not a whole bunch of artists working in my genre here in the boonies......I'm sure a lot of you are saying "duh" to that. But either way here is my new piece...

So this piece has been kind of waiting to happen. Not only have I been having trouble painting in this state but I have really been at an impasse with style and subject matter as well. I am somewhere in between a career longing to do birds doing everything and feeling a little more urban.....and supporting urban style and tattoo culture and the like...so this is where I am going with that....

Also I just recently went to New York to see the stupid Mets.....who need to stop sucking in september......but meanwhile while waiting for the game in Flushing Meadows, I attacked my book a little bit and came up with these two guys trying to place a call. Perhaps they are trying to catch the bus they missed for migration or something.....that would be a cool way to take this.....or maybe they lost their purse, haven't decided yet, but I am excited to be incorporating new bird ideas and multiple bird ideas.....

And this last sketch is for John Buck. May he keep thinking of Pork......

There is actually stuff going on now....so look back from time to time, I'll be updating the beer van slowly but surely.......

Rock out with your Oktoberfest out!

A Monster Piece!

At long last in my book, I got to paint a monster again....Oh yea, I love monsters! I didn't realize how much I missed painting these guys until I made this piece. I cranked it out super quick, so into it.......



So I hope all of y'all like it, cuz if not I'll be sorely disappointed. Kelly, the derby is for you. 'Jaunty' Somebody quick and grab a websters collegiate....


Also going up today, some randomness from my black book. I'm going to sculpt these bad boys. Bird totems for everybody. No really, everybody......



Actually that is probably a little bit of a lie, I'm going to try to work that out with my buddy reggie. he's awesome.....check out his stuff www dot rm3 studios dot com......

I've never used so many ellipse in my life so I think it might be time to go. Besides I was so excited about painting this morning that I forgot to brush my teeth, so I gotta go..........

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Awesome Robot Sketches.......(or mike is excited and stuff....)

So I'm listening to Girl Talk and chillin' with Ivy who is presently waiting for me to leave my house and all that jazz but I started doing this and I am going to finish darn it......

This is my new series that I am trying to make into a robot totem pole.....the bird totem pole is soon to come as well. Too much time visiting museums in the northwest....

I've also started a project that was kind of a rip off of a project that Roger Demuth a professor at Syracuse had the class prior to mine do. Scan in a really tiny drawing and blow it up, print it and paint that. So I've been working on it and it's starting to look really cool. the line seems way more expressive this way.

This is my newest sketch for the show next April. this show is going to be pretty rad. Everyone start getting your tickets to seattle..........

Back by Popular Demand

Seems like every time I end up blogging lately, it begins with "so it's been a while" . This I can't dispute this time either but nevertheless I've been busy and having a good time with everything.

There is some new stuff waiting in the wings, and everything will be coming to fruition within the next couple months. Perhaps there is a move in my near future and perhaps a new job, perhaps one of my business ventures is starting to fly. We'll see what happens and once it seems more concrete I will let anyone who comes here to this blogspot know.

In the meantime......



Here is one of my first sketches for the Blue Bottle show next april. It's kind of an ode to a paining I saw at http://www.rrobots.com/. This guys paintings are pretty rad. I thought his robot arms reaching would be better served looking after a bird though.....


This is a sketch for one of the first pieces in my "big show" I mentioned last blog posting. I'm going to be cutting out a bunch of these mini trees....I'm thinking they might represent seasonal changes as well, so there may be some with leaves and leaves changing color and buds as well......all in good time.

My parents are coming tomorrow....we'll see when next I post....probably another well it's been a while but......