Old Boys Club

Old Boys Club

24 x 24

acrylic and charcoal on panel

Another recurring theme, houses on fire, this time replete with a bunch of men standing around not doing a damn thing. While The World Burns. Some have suggested that the houses on fire are due to an experience in my youth, my family's duplex burned. I guess that could be partially true. The burning houses are about the sense of "home" being lost. I think there are parallels with economic collapse as well, mother nature taking her toll, ..

I don't know if this painting is complete yet. It feels like it's almost there but needs some refinement however I don't want the refinement to come at the cost of the immediacy of the painting. These are the dilemma's one faces!

Shirts, Skins, Wieners, Pee

Shirts, Skins, Wieners, Pee
24 x 36
acrylic and charcoal on panel

Part of my continuing obsession with riffing on vintage yearbook photographs.  Identity: group dynamics, gaining something, losing something.

Emasculating men.

Do you know the quickest way to scare way an average heterosexual male?  Point out a man his age peeing himself.  He'll laugh at his discomfort and saunter on.  True story.

Dunce!

Dunce Boy
8" x 25"

acrylic and charcoal on panel

Say hello to this months obsession, boys in dunce caps!  I'm really fond of the way the chalkboard on this painting turned out, love those rapid brush strokes with a bristle brush.

Somebody asked me at last months street gallery show if my paintings were photo-realistic, I said "no" with a wry smile and beamed "they're too messy to be photorealistic!".  I then explained my process of drawing out an image with charcoal, painting a sloppy underpainting, refining the underpainting, messing up the painting by making it sloppy again, and then completing the painting with final refinement.