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"Tears of Spring"

Acrylic Mixed-Media on Canvas

18"x24"

I've been experimenting with a different approach to preparing a painting surface that involves gluing mat board I've cut into shapes onto the canvas. I've found I can create a texture layer that can stand alone as a composition and be nearly as interesting as what I paint on it. This is the forth in a series completed. I've had fun mixing layers, abstract and cubist elements, and a variety of subjects. I'll try to get more posted!

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A batik tempura painting study of my favorite shirt...

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Music themed graphic design for a T-Shirt...

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"My Favorite Summer Shirt!"

Graphite Sketch

9"x12"

April 9, 2010

I've been trying to sketch some everyday for the past week...today was casual Friday...nice warm day to break out a favorite shirt...

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"Urban Scream"
Acrylic on Paper
18" x 24"

Imagine Holden Caulfield meets Edvard Munch...in 2010...image painted over a distressed page that was used by my students to prepare their work...I liked the feeling of being boxed-in...

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Hear, see, speak no evil...I've managed to get quite behind on my posting...combination of sickness in the family and general laziness during Spring Break...will work to catch everything up over the next couple of days...

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Mr. Bill in my Tiki cup...oh nooo....

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I wish I had invented the Lava Lamp...nothing comes close to sucking the brain cells out of your head than it's magic spell...a small corner of my world...

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Dancing, jumping, new wind-up toys that were a present from a former student who is now living in St. Louis...thanks Adam!

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The "Spring" in Spring Break finally arrives...warm and sunny day...

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"Ming" is our new Siamese kitten...rescued from Oxford today...

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Spring Break is finally here!!!

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"Monumental Marylin"
30"x40"
Acrylic on Canvas
March 12, 2010

I've had students create their own versions of Marylin for years as an introduction to Pop-Art and portrait work...this is the first time I've ever painted her...

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Ancient decal in the window at the Feed and Seed...National Motor Club Approved...

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One of several self-portrait sketches I made this week drawing directly into the computer with my Wacom tablet and stylus...lines and images that exist only as binary code...Stanley Kubrick would approve...there are many new frontiers for art to explore...

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Self-portrait combining my love to make music and sneak a paisley inspired motif into a painting...if only my horn playing was as inspired...recently picked the horn backup and can still play...enjoy jazz improvising to Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Longs...

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Back side of the Feed and Seed...love the industrial feeling...and the rust...

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Modified and layered image of the band at the Fulton "Sweat Tea" festival...they are opening the main stage at the Minerva Fest at Ballard Park next weekend...getting ready to record a full length album...

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Cubism inspired still life created two years ago...

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"Fly Envy"
12"x18"
Acrylic on Paper
March 5, 2010

My latest effort...completed today...part doodle...part illustration...part combination of things revisited from the bottom of my working portfolio...I've decided to start a new label with this post...New Art Friday...each Friday I'm planning to post a piece of artwork created during the week...all new...have found that goals help keep me moving forward...we'll see what happens!!!

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1978 Rascal Robot...the one that started my collection...bought at Rose's Department store in Ozark...I still smile thinking about winding him up and turning him loose in classes at Carroll High School...we've both walked a few miles from those days!!!

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One of my first experiments in distressing a painting...created the aged effect with a spray bottle and water before the dark glaze was completely dry...I like making a painting look old...

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This image is a reflection from the gazing ball in the west side yard of the Briar Farm...I manipulated the color in Photoshop and love the altered perspective of the view...

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Mr. Bill cleverly hiding in the glue department...

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Senter Drug Store Dr. Pepper sign...has been a downtown Fulton fixture for as long as I can remember...

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Old farm equipment "resting" by the Comer Milling, Feed and Seed store in Fulton...I especially enjoy the old signs...

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It's time to write, paint, draw, think, dream...a favorite Waterman fountain pen...

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Garden of the imagination...ink on paper...

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One of my favorite photos...made this past spring with my 50mm f1.8 "Nifty-Fifty" lens...I'm ready for some warmer weather...

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Pop-art image of my robot pencil sharpener...

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A view from the art room...

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I've been interested in grunge/street art for the past year or so...this painting is one in a series that combines stencil techniques with the general idea of decay in the background...I like the emotional charge this technique produces...

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Old Royal Crown Cola thermometer on my storage barn...the temperature is finally on the way up...

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A sampling from my "Tootsie Toy" car collection...the two up front were fished out of the bottom of the Thornton toy chest...I remember playing with them...the larger cars were a present from my brother...we once played and used our imaginations...long before PS3 days...

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Pointillism ink Rose...too many dots to count!

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Lucky...our last Tennessee cat...he wandered up as a stay...was run over by a car and Coleen and the kids took him to the vet while I was out of town...Have you ever paid for a cat hip replacement???...I named him Lucky because he's fortunate that I wasn't home that day!!!

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Sunset at the boat ramp at the Whitten Center in Fulton...I can still see "sunspots" when I look at this photo...learned a valuable lesson...don't point a zoom lens directly toward the sun...

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Antique Orange Crush and Pepsi bottle...they were both bottled in Tupelo...and have been drawn in countless still life arrangements by my students..."firewater..."

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Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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A recent "value" collage created with a range of neutral papers...I made this as a classroom visual aid to the current project my Gifted students are working on...it always amazes me how much detail can be created when you focus only on contrasting light and dark shapes in a design...the pitcher shaped object is a stove top expresso maker...very common in Europe...the cup a favorite I bought on vacation at Sea Grove beach...

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Fantasy Garden design...complete with paisley sky and spirals...original is 18"x24"...inked with a Sharpie marker...

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The "New" Daisy Theater on Beale Street in Memphis...shot taken while waiting in line to see Forever and Never open for Mayday Parade...it was a great show...

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Cafe window in downtown Oxford...holds the promise of good things to eat...

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Signage from downtown Fulton...

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Another Paisley watercolor study...at the time I started painting this series you could barely find a paisley on anything...now they are everywhere...

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Sunrise reflection in the surf at Folly Beach...

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Mr. Bill appeared one day last year in my art classroom... he apparently was a gift...my students enjoy hiding him in odd places...I enjoy talking pictures of his adventures...he's being held by a cast tape sculpture...who knows where he might be tomorrow...

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Painting study of Maggie...

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Sea shells collected at Folly Beach...

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"Dr. Pepper" sign on my barn...