THATS ART AHHHHH
This is my current wip. It is the conceptual deisgn for both the painting and frame.
60"X84" oil on canvas set in concrete and steel with LED illuminated stars.
I seemed to have taken a turn towards Hopper meets Dali. I don't know if when I started to get up there in age my mind became a fertile petri dish for surrealism or if it's just that I keep looking for good things in the world around me but keep on finding more and more bizzareo things. Don't know, but this is where I seem to be going and not comming back. In the finished painting I think I will add party hats on the two rats in the bottom right corner. They should be partying!
The reality of the canvas is the act of painting is much more work than the digital design. After this one I plan on taking a break from the large canvas and working on small drawings and paintings
LOST IN TIME LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN ink and pencil on rag board set in concrete, steel and glass 42" X 55" over all
I take pictures cut and paste them, over paint them in photoshop and see where I wind up. I don't find too many ads on billboards or freight cars that I want to paint so I make up my own. The final scene of Blade Runner seems to be a fitting end for both of these vessels. "time to die"
Ah yes graffiti poetry on the billboard.
UNTITLED oil on canvas, set in concrete and steel 25" X 31"
Not much to say here. We all know how messed up things are. We main line oil and think it's as natural as the rockies. This ad acutaly existed but
the graffiti is my doing. I was searching for something to paint and never found it here. The frame was much more intersting to me.
PRETTY LIGHTS oil on linen 36" X 52"
I need to create a frame to shock this one to life. Like Frankenstein used a bolt of lightning to liven up his creation. This ones getting old it seems very dated. Bet lots of people don't care about Bush's presidential directive 24 anymore.
I have a friend that says using homeless dudes is so passe.
He is probably right if down and out people is all your work is about. Better to paint pretty pictures or imaginary disturbed characters. So what if when you paint your surroundings you observe that the poor souls are just as big a part of the cityscape as herons and egrets crossing hwy 50 at Bumby? I bet there are homeless people that are parents. Their children may very well be in the military. Private unknown may have given a cell phone to his dad because they both are living day to day trying to survive in two unforgiving worlds. Maybe the voice on the phone says the number you have dialed is no longer recieving calls. He never dials, it's keyed in, no wrong numbers, why no answer, and why no lights on the billboard right in front of him showing rows of flag draped coffins? I think parents are more concerned by these things, even the homeless ones.
I was assigned to build this model of the Orlando Events Center real quick on short notice. In the same weekend render out the animation flyover to showcase the media that would make this new building a sure I-4 twenty car pile up sensation. I flunked on guessing on the media and it was not used. I did however get the plans for the building out of it and built the thing at a more sane speed. I got a nice rendering out of it. The big pile up on I-4, not yet the buildings still under construction. 
