Category: General

I’ve had a hard time with inspiration lately. A little while ago I started experimenting with mixing my own paints and learning the science behind that and I just haven’t been able to get it right.  As I fought with that, suddenly months had passed and I hadn’t created anything worth showing. I got a […]

I’ve been doing a bit with poured paints lately but it’s always been to provide a background effect to a piece where some other technique was also in play.  This week I wanted to do some dirty pours that stood on their own. When I’m going for a background “marble” effect, I use a lot […]

I’ve been talking about revisiting my original “Legends” series since I did that work and started to do so when I was putting together my entry in the “Paint By Red Wings Numbers” contest last winter (also called “Legends”) before hitting technical difficulties.  Having solved those issues when working on some of my Ukrainian flag-inspired […]

I’ve had these pieces sitting around for a little bit but have hesitated on posting them. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, I was drawn to do some kind of art around it (as I’m sure many were).  Having done it, though…  It seems small.  Ineffectual.  I personally learned a little bit […]

Having finished off “Legends” and gotten into poured paints, I wanted to do something that combined that with with the spin art that I’d been trying out over the summer.  I had a cool, round canvas from a poured paint bundle that I’d gotten over Christmas, so I figured that made sense to try out, […]

I’ve had a piece in the works for over a month now that I can finally reveal. I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big Detroit Red Wings fan.  One of my early pieces was the “Legends” series, where I used a power drill to fling paint onto eight canvasses, each with a stencil of a […]

It’s been awhile since I completed a new piece.  Part of that was some health issues, part of it was life getting in the way, and part of that is that I spent a good amount of time iterating on this one. It was something that I felt like I just wasn’t getting quite right. […]

Unsurprisingly, “Water” is another one that didn’t turn out the way I was planning. I revisited the idea of using a leaf blower to move paint around and was going for something kind of light and airy with it.  I think I didn’t thin out the paint enough, though, which left very heavy blobs on […]

When I wrote up “Medal” I said that I wish it represented “the deleterious impact the Olympics have on their host cities.” I’d had that on my mind in the run up to the Tokyo Olympics and, after completing “Ring,” I knew how I wanted to represent that. There isn’t much new here as far […]

Awhile back I created something that ended up not quite right, so I filed it away as a sketch, but when Aims saw it she said it looked “like something from that video in The Ring.” That description stuck with me and, after I figured out a bit of my power drill spinning technique, I […]