May 5, 2013 in Art
We are going to make magnets up. I am trying to decide which piece to make.
Should I do Self-Portrait with Guitar, or Piedmont Ave Lamp Post?
“Self Portrait with Guitar” 2010 Acrylic on Canvas 24″ x 36″ – $1500
Piedmont Avenue Lamppost.
April 12, 2013 in Art
I am working up my next painting. This is a modified version of an older painting I did about 20 years ago combined with another painting I did in 2010.
Here are the two paintings I am merging into one new piece. Who better to steal from than my past self?
April 6, 2013 in Art
Getting ready to load the paintings into the car. Hanging it tonight at Gaylords Coffee on Piedmont in Oakland. Jess and I’s first showing in the Bay Area.
April 3, 2013 in Art
This is a demented family portrait.
It’s about 50% complete… as far as I know.
April 3, 2013 in Art
I am releasing a run of 100 signed numbered 16″ x 20″ giclee prints (image size is approximately 9.5″ x 15″) of my newest painting. The look great. Starting them off at $250
Want one? let me know.
You can see the original painting here
Jess and I are having a show in October at Blue Danube. Will post reception dates soon.
December 31, 2012 in Art
Time lapse video painting “self portrait with guitar” 2010
December 30, 2012 in Uncategorized
You can see it in person Friday April 12 at Redux Gallery
Improved Print… converted to an original acrylic painting.
I found a picture of the print before I defiled it with my vulgar strokes…
Sorry Piet
November 15, 2012 in Art
just finished this up
November 6, 2012 in Art
So walking to get some coffee today I came across this large framed painting on the curb. It was still there when I came back so I brought it home. There was a 5 inch rip in the bottom right hand side of the canvas, which took a few minutes to repair with some acrylic medium.
Here is the painting as I found it. Standard 70′s deco furniture store garbage.
I took the photo and put it in photo shop to play with some ideas and came up with a concept that I felt improved greatly on the original work…
Happy with the concept, I threw it on the easel and got to work, here is a midway point showing progress.
And after a days work, here is the completed work, much improved I think you will agree.
Now I just have to find somewhere to hang it…
August 25, 2012 in Design
Excerpt from article I wrote for Designer Planet
2012 marks my 20th year as a professional designer and business owner. I started my career in design while still in high school in 1987, I was an art student and a club owner in Detroit saw me drawing on napkins and asked me to make some fliers for a few upcoming concerts. Eventually I was designing all their local magazine ads as well as painting murals on the building.
This lead to similar work for more bands and clubs in Detroit, St. Louis and Columbus. I have designed countless record and CD covers, band posters, magazine ads, as well as numerous murals. In 1992 I officially started to freelance on a permanent basis, doing work for local business’ and creating little coupon books and magazines for campus stores in Columbus. By 1995 I had moved to St. Petersburg, Florida and had started three local magazines with my soon-to-be wife who was also an artist.
We started the magazines to build design clientele, luckily one of our early advertisers was a local ISP who gave us some server space as partial payment for ads. This was 1995 and the web was still essentially unknown and more of a novelty than the dominant media force it is today. Once the ISP saw the site we built, they had a steady flow of design work to send us.
By 2001 we had moved our company to Atlanta and had established a solid reputation in the industry. I have since worked with some of the largest companies in the world as well as some of the smallest. After 2003 our company had pretty much phased design work out and concentrated primarily on back end development, creating custom enterprise level business applications.
I give you this background information so you know that I speak from experience. I have been involved in every level of transaction in the design industry, from designing band fliers for beer, to six figure development contracts. I have learned the hard way what works and what doesn’t work when dealing with billing clients. I started as a freelancer and ended up running a development firm with 15 employees and have overseen millions of dollars of development work. The last 5 years I was strictly handling business management, working on contracts and making sure projects were delivered on-time and to specification.
The lessons I have learned can apply to almost any service based business, from a logo designer to a remodeling company. Anyone who provides a custom service to a client can use these principles and techniques to make their business run smoothly. And if you are on the client end of the transaction, use this as a guide to ensure you receive exactly what you expect from your service provider.
http://www.designerplanet.net/succeeding-in-the-business-of-creative-services/