At Home In My Studio

With my painting babies. All hair and nose.

Many thanks to Tom Beaman!

Panic Attack Painting

The Dentist II, 2011, 12"x16", oil.

Red Dog

Clancey 2011. Warm up paintings from January.

New Painting

Oil on canvas, 24"x30"

It's funny, this painting started out with other kids in it, and a table cloth with plates and cups and the presence of other people, but it only started to make sense when I started to edit everyone out of it down to just the girl. It's weird to discover what works are about only after you are finished them. Like the rest of my paintings from this semester, this one is about something I fear. The disappearance and dissolution of family and friends and relationships, or more specifically solitude. It gets scarier the older I get.

Don't mind the ghost-chair just hanging out there.

More Studio Sketches

Studio Sketches

Dad

Backyard Swingset

A backyard swingset that my brother and I know all too well.

oil on canvas, 26"x30" (thereabouts)

The Tree Climber

Happy Christmas! Here is a new painting!

(4'x5' oil)

Ricoh FF-1s

Over a year ago my favourite camera suddenly disappeared with a roll of film that was almost complete in it. I remember the very last time I saw it and had spent months searching for it and even more months trying in vain to find a replacement for it. Three similar cameras (and a whole bunch of money) later, someone surprised me with this for my birthday:



Having my Ricoh FF-1s replaced means so much to me, here are a bunch of the photos I took with the old one before the universe mysteriously swallowed it up. I sure hope who or whatever found it can appreciate it the same ways I did in my day.