guitart

i painted this to be auctioned at a Nuçi's Space fundraiser a while back. just came across the photo tonight and realized i'd never really shown it to anyone. so there you go.

On being like nothing else

Excerpted from an interview with Brian Eno by Paul Morley, published in the Guardian on Sun. Jan 17, 2010:
"In my house in Oxfordshire, we have this big, beautiful Andrew Logan sculpture of a lovely Pegasus with blue glass wings. When I get a taxi from the station, a driver will always comment on it because it is so striking. What they often say is, 'What does that stand for then?' Or, 'What does that mean?', based on the idea that something exists because it has to tell you something, or it refers to something else, and I realise that this notion is foreign to me. The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else."

Currently on my visual playlist

Three things i can't get enough of today, being middle February and cold and only halfway to spring, Glasswing butterflies, snow crystals and (my favorite of all the folding bikes) the Strida5.

bird tracks

it snowed today and my phone camera photographs really blue. so there you go. bird tracks.

If eliminating the non-essential were an extreme sport

Straight from today's Guardian, Albert Exergian's modernist TV posters. Not your grandmother's Über-Einfachheit... got to love a man who can really cut to the chase.The collection is available at Blanka

YFF calendar features 14 Athens Artists

Click here to see the calendar page by page.
Featuring myself (cover) and Jim Fiscus, Dan Donahue, Christy Bush, Kim Kirby & Winston Parker, Chris Bilheimer, Jeff Owens, Carol John, Michael Lachowski, Cindy Jerrell, Matt Blanks, Layet Johnson, Mike Landers and Carl Martin.

4 buildings from my trip to texas

The courthouse in Denton on Christmas Eve.
My friend Barley Vogel's Art School.
A home in Dallas' Greenville Avenue area.
My parents' home during a snowstorm.

Wrap After Reading

Athens' weekly magazine, the Flagpole, has put my pattern on its annual gift wrap cover !

tiny prints on wood

these are 3.5" square prints glued onto 3/4" thick wood, edges are painted black and there is a hole for hanging them. $5 each + shipping. Great for small gifts, stocking stuffers, or for tiny empty spaces on your walls. Contact me at loukregel@gmail.com if you want me to set some aside for you.

7 paintings, 12" x 24"

i have 7 of these at the moment. they are 12" x 24", acrylic on wood, with a 1.5" thick wood frame behind them. edges are painted dark gray. they are $150 each + shipping (discount for multiple purchases). contact me at loukregel@gmail if you have questions.Note: the bottom three are sold.

Free cd sleeve to print out

same as the desktop pattern, slightly different colors. click here for a pdf you can download and print out.Print onto cardstock, cut out, fold and glue the side panels under the front flap. Very useful for music or photo album gifts.

Free desktop pattern no.5

For the holidays...How to install: copy to your desktop. set as desktop pattern in your control panel/system preferences. i think it's that simple... let me know if it's not by posting a comment below. i love hearing from you either way!

process photo

Quick picture of my work table today. 3" squares i'm going to glue prints onto.
and here they are finished.

+ 4 = 144

Here's the last in this series. Finally! But these colors aren't quite right. i'm going to re-photograph it outside tomorrow after it quits raining.

3x36=108 Half Circles

3 new 1'x2's going up tomorrow. And a 4th coming down the pike. Check back soon for a new picture.

Simultaneous Contrast Exp.#1

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.

New show up at Athens Academy through Dec. 11

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.

3 Littles

6" x 12" $125. Acrylic on wood.

CD sleeve!

Click HERE to download a pdf of this image. Then print onto card stock, cut out and fold. More to come later!

Athens Food and Culture

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.

New small pieces up at the 4C in Athens

Four new little color studies. They are 6"x12", unframed in this photo.$125 each (all are SOLD)

I don't dezerve this kind of Love

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 ".

Snow Crystals

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.

Painting Black Telephones

New show up at The Grit in Athens

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.