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Medicine Taste

Posted on February 16, 2011 | 1 comment

Oil on canvas, 5″ x 5″.

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“Wild Horses”

Posted on February 15, 2011 | 2 comments

Oil on canvas, 12″x 9″.

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Every Body’s Beautiful

Posted on February 4, 2011 | 2 comments

I’m delighted to be showing a handful of nudes in this show -which opens tonight- at Stoneheart Gallery in Evergreen, Colorado.

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The Horse Trader

Posted on February 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.

Brutally cold in Denver today.

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Beasty Boy

Posted on January 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 5″ x 5″. The dog is imaginary, but I like scruffy looking terrier faced dogs in general- and I think they bear a facial resemblance to some wolf spiders, the teddy bears of the spider world.

 

The tragic shooting in Tucson has been on my mind a great deal. I watched Obama’s speech and wept.  The invocation of “mental illness” and the attitude that this explains it all and we need look no further troubles me. Writing for Slate, Vaughan Bell addresses this issue here.

“…it’s likely that some of the people in your local bar are at greater risk of committing murder than your average person with mental illness.”

-Vaughan Bell, “Crazy Talk,” Slate

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Woodpecker Woman

Posted on January 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 26″ x 20″.

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Safe and Warm (as ugly as I seem)

Posted on December 15, 2010 | 3 comments

This year’s Christmas card – the usual quick block print method- had some surprises.

Hand-marbling paper is always a little unpredictable. The red and green paint I used in the marbling bath left a select few nutcrackers looking like they were dying in a bloody storm of gunfire. I sent those cards out anyway, but only to friends who would (hopefully) understand.

After a weirdly warm spell in Denver, it feels like our snow will come in tonight.

I’m ready for it. I’m making fruitcake tonight using a variation on Alton Brown’s recipe- no nasty jellied fruits, just good dried fruit, lots of nuts and even more brandy.

Trying very hard to be of good cheer.

Hope you are safe and warm who ever you are, where ever you are.

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The Hubris of Hare

Posted on December 14, 2010 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 6″ x 6″.

I will be showing a handful of new small paintings, including this one, at the Zip 37 Gallery Members’ Show, which opens this December 17 and runs until January 23.

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24th Annual Fine Art Market Show and Sale at the Arvada Center

Posted on December 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

for Arts and Humanities.

Many wonderful local artists display their wares at this show, and the opening reception is lovely; beautiful young people in ties walk around with trays of pastries and things, offering them up. I will have 13 pieces in this exhibit. Most are tiny and brand new. There is also a new thing this year for people who have cell phones (i.e., everyone on the planet except me). You can dial in a number and hear each artist say whatever they’ve chosen to say about their work. What a world!

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We Passed the Setting Sun

Posted on November 30, 2010 | 1 comment

Oil on wood, 12″ x 12″.

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