New Figurative work

Here are some new pieces Evan and I finished this summer.

Here’s one of Dexter and Tiffany (great models) who were my characters for Adam and Eve.
This painting is called “Restoration” and is about human kind being healed and freed from sin, sickness, and death at the end of the age, and having unlimited love, life, and creativity unleashed.

Evan’s piece is titled: “How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you? I want you, why am I scared?”
I don’t want to speak for Evan, but I would wager that this painting is about facing fears. It’s a powerful painting that makes me think of the fears we have about trusting and fully surrendering our lives to our Creator.

“In the Flesh” at Bromwell’s Gallery

Evan and I are very excited to be curating the show, “In the Flesh” at Bromwell’s gallery.
We’re working with the lovely and talented Tracy McClorey to organize this exhibition that centers around the human form as its theme.
The show will be juried by Marlene Steele and also features a guest lecture on the history of the human figure in art by Tina Tammaro.
The opening is August 28th, so save the date! It’s going to be night bursting at the seams with beauty, talent, and fun!

Thanks for Saturday and yet another show!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out Saturday night, it was a blast!
Now on to yet another fine show. This friday, the 12th, @ Redtree gallery in Oakley. http://www.redtreegallery.net/
I will be showing there with three other wonderful artist. Hope you can make it!

Conquering the canvas!

I just made three stretchers and Im  going to make many more this week! Hope I dont scare any of the children out there with my morning hair due;)
So I should have some updates soon of some works in progress and some completed work. Alison also has a few that I still need to photograph.
Also, check back soon for a show update. Ill be showing some work at Taza in the month of April. Lots of brand new stuff!
In other news, our good friend Renan picked up some of our work last week and used it for a photo shoot. She is a designer and uses us for quite a bit of work! The cool thing she only took the paintings to the shoot, she didnt bring them back. Thats because four of them sold! Yes, we did celebrate this success! Renan REALLY hooked us up. We should have photos to post soon.
Until next time, I hope everyone out there is doing well. Keep coming back, I should have new stuff to post soon!

finished painting

so this morning, i went and dropped off the tree painting at art design consultants.  the interior desiner wanted something similar to my blue wing, but with a tree as the subject instead.  i’m hoping that they will like it!

the wing:

 

the tree:

pastels

i’ve just started a pastel drawing as a kind of study for a painting.  it’s part of the ’sides of adam/ faces of eve’ series i’ve been working on for the past couple years.  i’ve never really done any elaborate pastel work with the figure (just little bits here and there when teaching), so this new experiment is presenting me with fun and frustrating challenges.   i’m using a combination of blick pastels and nupastels, but they’re proving themselves to be very powdery, not creamy enough for my liking.  if anyone knows of a pastel that might be cheaper than rembrandt brand but comparable in quality, your recommendations would be more than welcomed!  thanks in advance!

alison

here’s what i have so far: 

White Death is upon us!

Looks like here in Cincinnati we are going to be snowed in for a few days. About 4-5 inches last night and a forecast of a nice wintery mix is coming our way.
In the spirit of chiling out, here are some cool websites to check out. Plus, dont forget our links page for even more!
http://blog.art21.org/
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
http://emptyeasel.com/
http://www.galleryhenoch.com/
http://www.paulmellender.com/
http://www.thisisreverb.com/

the art pocket has letterhead!

after a bit of brainstorming and deliberation, evan and i came up with a letterhead logo for the art pocket.
what we came up with ties in my love of red (although it could really be any color) and our love of printmaking!

evan cut TAP (the art pocket’s cute little acronym) into a linoleum block and made a stamp–pretty cool and fun to do!

i love the hand-crafted feel of the varying ink pressure:)

Talk about how Art and innovation can change the world, watch this!

Hopefully a sign of good things to come!

New Abstract!

Im freshly back from vacation and ready to work!!!! Here is the first one of a few abstracts Im planning on doing. Much more to come!
Oh, are they? 36X72 inch Acrylic on canvas