3 new 1'x2's going up tomorrow. And a 4th coming down the pike. Check back soon for a new picture.
Finished this one tonight, it's an experiment to see if i can find colors that vibrate against each other, called "simultaneous contrast". i painted this on a standard hollow door, it's 30" X 80" and could be used as a door or a tabletop, though i'm going to be displaying it as a painting at my upcoming show on Nov 1.
Showing in the Bertelsmann Gallery...works by me, Carol John and Didi Dunphy. The three of us make up half of A.D.D., this is our second group show and i think our art works beautifully together. Sorry i don't have more images from the show. i'll be there tomorrow taking photos and will post them here.
Click HERE to download a pdf of this image. Then print onto card stock, cut out and fold. More to come later!
Our little town, which for its size has a pretty awesome dining selection, not to mention the independent foodies what with the Four Coursemen and the Farmer's Market and all the local farms, now has a sweet magazine to go with all that. They did an article on my work in this month's issue and i'm happy how the color printing makes my paintings look, really bright and poppy. The article is on page 24 if you're interested in reading it, mom.
Four new little color studies. They are 6"x12", unframed in this photo.$125 each
i found someone's notepad on my walk to the studio tonight. there is no name in it, and i have no way of returning it. i'm pretty sure it belonged to a man. it smells like cologne and there are a lot of football scores written in it. Listed amongst phone numbers, inspirational quotes and bills to pay are various grocery items... crotons, bacon bitts and srimp on one page, foot powder, air freasher, Aqua freash whittening, shampoo, condionar, and next to the words "I trust God" he'd put Extenz on his shopping list. Near the back of the book hidden in the unused pages, "I don't dezerve this kind of Love ".
Why in the midst of deep spring i decided to obsess on snow crystals is a mystery to me. Here is a link to Kenneth G. Libbrecht's (Caltech) web site where i got this illustration.
These cut-outs are a collaboration with fellow clip-art collector Chris Purcell, and we have a blog with all the images. The show will be up through late May.
It really snowed here! LOTS of snow! although i was sick as a dog, i got to take some pictures from my back porch. Here's one of my micro-house (ok, it's a shack) and circular garden under construction.
i spent quite a lot of time at home during the holidays, working on some sign jobs and listening to 69 Love Songs Volume 1 by The Magnetic Fields over and over. i like to listen to music that way. So in the spirit of that CD and the post-Christmas/mid-winter doldrums, here is Pantone Blue 292, my gift to you, dear reader.
For your 2008 gift wrapping pleasure.
I like the lettering on this church sign in Murphy,NC. It's part gothic, part pirate...not really churchy at all. Maybe they'd done the Christian thing and hired an out of work reformed pirate sign painter to make it for them. If anyone can decipher the last 2 lines, please let me know.
"54 Threes" is a new series of paintings hanging at the Flicker Theater and Bar in Athens through September.
The Warm Tones
"Red and Brown" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500.(Sold)
"Ochres" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500.(Sold)
The Greens
"Blue and Green Threes" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500(Sold)
"Minty Threes" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500(Sold)
Mono- and Poly-chrome Threes 
"Mono-chromatic For the People" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500.(Sold)
"Poly-chromatic For the People" 32" X 32", acrylic on wood board. $500.
Last week i broke my glasses while i was in the mountains and had to use scotch tape to keep one of the lenses from falling out. Today i was supposed to superglue them back together, but since that means not having my glasses on for an hour or so, i have procrastinated. Instead i spent the afternoon spelunking on the internet and reading about things like why colorblindness is more prevalent among men and how the eye sees color. 
Illustration: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ca. 1900,
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid
These were hanging in the 5 Star Day Cafe in downtown Athens during May and June.
Sublime landscape images by Michael Oliveri at the Lamar Dodd School of Art's main gallery. 
These must be experienced in person, so if you live in Athens, please don't miss this show. They are huge (about 10' long) micrographs, digitally stitched together from multiple (FEI)field emission gun scans (more commonly known as (SEM)Scanning Electron Microscope scans). Close-up views of nano forms that so resemble landscapes or moonscapes, you'll expect to see the tail fins of a lunar lander in the corner. Michael is head of digital media at UGA, a designer with ADD (Athens Design Development) and is emerging as an important American artist in the field of digital media.
The installation of one of our CLR's was held up by this locked bicycle. 
Love the orange and green together.
image copyright Lou Kregel 2007
