Midpoint, Midpoint, Midpoint!

Last night at Midpoint was AWESOME! If you are looking for a group to hang out with tonight, we are meeting at 6:30 at Kaldi’s, 1204 Main St downtown . We are going to have a great time! Write me if you need more info.
There will be hundreds of musicians (from all over the world) of all genres of music playing their hearts out downtown Thursday-Saturday. Last night was awesome, so don’t miss Friday and Saturday!
You can also check out entheos at Below Zero Lounge upstairs on Saturday at 1130pm. (Below Zero is located downtown at 1122 Walnut at the building that once was home to DV8 and Alchemize.)
For more Midpoint info, click here: http://www.mpmf.com/
And here’s our CityBeat write-up where they compare us to the eurythmics (yay!): http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A146138

lots to do this weekend!

Check out Alison this saturday at the Midpoint music festival. http://www.mpmf.com/
Her band entheos will be playing upstairs at Below Zero Lounge this saturday at 11:30pm
Midpoint is always such a good time. Try and make it out if you can!

Also, there is a fund raiser a friend is putting on for ALZHEIMER’S at THE SCOREBOARD ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 25TH FROM 6-8 There will be free food and 10% of drink sales will go to the charity. I also gave a painting to be raffled off for the charity. Here is the address:
3783 Shady Lane North Bend, OH 45052 (right next to larosas in Miami Heights)

As I promised, here is one of my new abstracts. Enjoy!

Pics from Mason Art festival.

Here is what our booth looked like at the Mason Arts festival.
So much thanks to Stephanie Carson for her being so generous and letting us use her tent! She is a life saver;) Here is her website, check her out: http://www.stephaniecarson.com/I also wanted to thank everyone who stopped by and said such kind words about our work. Its always fun to meet so many people in one day, thanks.

I should be posting some new paintings soon. There is a sneak peak if you can find them in the photo above.

Mason arts festival!

We have been doing a ton of new work for The Mason Arts festival that is going on tomorrow.
Here is a link for more details: http://www.masonarts.org/
Ive done 5 new paintings just for this festival and Alison also have some new work. Come check us out.
Well, back to work for now. Have a great weekend!

We are back!

We just got our internet service back about an hour ago, and our lights come on last night at 2am!
Today I stretched and gessoed 5 canvases, so look for a lot of work to come soon.
For now I just have to get some things in order. Amazing how connected to technology we really are.
Hope everyone else is doing well also. It was a heck of a storm.

New frames.

I made Alison some new frames for her prints and they turned out really nice. Hopefully she can get a show with these prints and I will be making her a bunch more.
These prints are going into voltage furniture, and will be a big hit Im sure!

I also wanted to say congratulation to my cousin Jennifer and her husband Bob. They just had a new born baby girl named Ava. Ive already fallen in love with her! It was the newest born baby I have ever seen. I got to hold her when she was about an hour and a half old.

Here are some weekend dates you dont want to miss.
Tomorrow, Sayler Parks second saturday concert series continues. It starts at 4 and goes till around 7ish. Come check out some good bands and enjoy the beautiful setting. for direction click here: http://www.cincinnatiusa.com/calendar/event.asp?ProdID=86034
Also tomorrow night, Alison will be singing backup for Jane Andra at Rohs Street cafe. You can check her site out here http://www.janesmusic.com/
She is a really good singer and has a very good band!

Hope everyone is doing well, have a great weekend.

Tips!

I found a nice little video on the web about how to do oil paintings. Its almost as good as mine;) There are three in the series, so make sure you check them all out.
I love seeing how people work. Most are pretty similar, but all of us have different ideas that we can give to one another.

One other tip from me is this, if you want to be a better artist, seek out other artists to talk to. You wont only get great ideas, but you will meet some great people in the process!
Im going to try and give more of these tips in the future, so keep check back every week for more.

Enjoy!
From this video you can click at the bottom to find the second and third.
http://www.how-to-draw-and-paint.com/oil-painting-tutorial-part1.html

Alisons latest WIP

This is Alisons newest WIP.  It has a long way to go, but is already looking very cool.
With Alisons work you never know what the final outcome is going to be. Its fun watching her process. Enjoy!
Hope you all having a wonderful weekend!

WIP One day in

This is the same canvas I posted yesterday. I worked like crazy yesterday, on and off from 9:30am-12 midnight. Im really excited about this series. Im testing some different techniques, so I hope this one turns out.
This is in its very early stages, one day of work is all Ive done so far.

New series!

Im starting a new series of paintings today! Ive been coming up with ideas for weeks now, and its all starting to fit together.
Trying to put thoughts and concepts on a 2 dimensional canvas can be hard sometimes. Because of my abstract work, I finally feel like things are starting to fall into place. I finally feel like Im getting into a style of work I like. My thoughts will hopefully be able to be painted onto a canvas. I wont just be rendering a photo in paint. Not that there is anything wrong with that, Its just not what I want to do as an artist.
So here is the first canvas Im painting on. 40X30 inch, smaller than the rest will be. I want to experiment a bit before I go big.
Ill talk more about concept and style in future posts.

Also, Im looking for models still if anyone is interested. Clothed and nude, Im doing both. Contact me and I can fill you in on what I want to do.