New Large Painting

This is a new painting 7 feet by 5 feet. I will be posting the paintings and the insets here as a way to host the images and keep a record of them








This Painting Up For Bid On Ebay.
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Images Of the Venue

These are pictures that I took of the new venue with my phone before the contractors starting working on the building.




The piece of wood in this photo above is a 4 foot by 8 foot piece of plywood.



It may be hard to tell what you are looking at here, but the ceilings in this "box" are at least 8 to 10 feet high.

New Venue

I planned in March to open this venue with an event on my birthday, but sadly, the venue was not ready and I've been waiting patiently for the contractors to finish.

New Painting

New Venue

I'm poking around the edges of putting an event together for next month. There is this incredible venue available, but not without some commitment. I will also have some time this weekend to create some new paintings. I'm looking forward to that and will have images as soon as they are available.

Optimal Trajectory

I've been focusing lately on 'Optimal Trajectory'. The spiritual definition of it is the theory that everyone is born with a purpose, a path in life. The closer you are to your 'optimal' path, the easier things flow in your life to deliver you to your destiny. The further you get from your path, the harder things become for you (as though trying to tell you, you are going the wrong way)

I've been climbing out of a tremendous hole that I've dug for myself and this has left me with limited finances. I was excited though, because after this week, I will have a bit of money to spend. But my impulse THIS week was to go ahead and spend a few dollars on internet advertising for my artfire page.

I was disappointed, knowing that I couldn't do that this week and would have to wait until next week.

Then the mail came, with an advertisement from Google. A card was included good for a $100 credit to try AdSense/AdWords advertising. I probably would not have received the advertisement if I had not signed up for AdSense some time ago on another blog that I haven't even been to for months. (It was set up to advertise an upcoming event)

I'm also hoping the credit isn't BS, but so far it seems like it will fill the bill. The claim is that you can use the credit to start a campaign, and when it's done, you don't have to continue if you don't want. It reduces in value next month and expires in March. I'm hoping the point is to get you to try the advertising and when you actually see results, it will encourage you to continue.

I've never received an offer like this and I think it is significant that it is coming at this particular time, so, I guess I will get to launch a campaign this weekend.

I'm very excited--I will get to launch this week after all and it makes me feel encouraged that I'm on the right path.

Bone Dogs

These are some fun little pieces from 2004 that I'm turning into magnets.

Staying Warm at Christmas

Here is an inset of a FIRE painting. Something to keep warm by. It's going to be 27 degrees here in Florida. I know it may be colder elsewhere, but I didn't sign up for this!

Istanbul, Turkey

This painting was shipped to a Travel Business in Istanbul, Turkey. The shipping cost was so prohibitive, it had to be taken off the frame and rolled, which is not easy to do with a painting that has 3D texture on it. The owner said it arrived okay, but I got the feeling he was not enjoying trying to get it back on to a frame. I would love to visit this piece some day.

Blue Couches

Here are some early pieces placed in a decor setting I refer to as 'blue couch'

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From The Archive - Very First Ebay Sale

I watched a friend of mine paint and put up the paintings for sale on Ebay. He was selling them pretty regularly. I watched the listings for about a year. Cheering if he got a good bid, marveling at the effects he was producing. All through that year, it didn't occur to me to paint. I was too intimidated. But over time, as I looked through other art in the 'Outsider Art' listings, I became bolder.
Finally, I decided to try my hand at some very simple folk art. It started with scrap wood from Home Depot and did a simple painting. I wired it to hang and went through the process of putting it up for sale.
When someone placed a bid on it, I almost fell over. I know it sounds strange, and maybe others don't have this reaction. But for me it was mind blowing to think that some total stranger looked at what I created and said "Yes" I will spend my money on that and hang it in my home. (I guess talk about low self esteem) but it is the ultimate form of validation.

Sink Your Teeth In

A power overload knocked out the power supply on my 'modern' computer. As an emergency back up, I've plugged in an older computer that we had here at the house that no longer had a monitor.
This is the computer we used around 2004. This means it was the computer I was using when I first dove in to abstract painting. Some of the photos from that era fell by the way side some time ago, but, the silver lining of losing the other computer is that many of those photos are still on THIS computer.
Unfortunately I can't upload them directly to this blog, so I'm working (very SLOWLY) to try to get some of them uploaded to a place I can do an image link to them here.
It's been edifying to go back and look at early work and see where I've been, see what I moved forward with and what I left behind. I'm also seeing things I want to return to.