Sugar Study I - Revisited

Sugar Study I - 6" x 6" - oil on cradled hardboard panel - SOLD

When I first painted this one, it had a yellow background. I was never quite settled on that yellow, but I kept it to challenge myself to experiment with new colors I don't normally use. Well, some months have passed, and I never took a liking to the yellow. This morning I decided it was time to address the matter, so I painted over it with a deep french blue. And now I'm happy.

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Egg Study - "Now Being Served"

"Now Being Served" - 6" x 6" - oil on cradled hardboard panel - NFS

My love of mid-20th century ad art compels me to include it in my work whenever possible. A taste for refraction and the color orange makes this little study a perfect trifecta of awesome for me to paint. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

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The Mouse Project

"The Mother Lode" - 8" x 8" - oil on canvas - SOLD

Back in April, I completed a painting for Steve Worthington's Mouse Project (see above). I was honored to be a part of this wonderful adventure. The plan was to have 22 artists create paintings utilizing three of Steve's bronze mice, compile jpegs of the paintings into a beautiful book, then donate the proceeds from sales of this book to animal shelters. A truly worthy cause if you ask me. Below is an excerpt from Steve's own blog post on the subject:

"What's a WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN for 22 artists, you, me and a bunch of homeless animals in shelters?

The Mouse Project.

I never planned to call it that, people just started saying it.
And so it stuck.

In a nutshell, it's a book made up of 47 paintings, by 22 artists, each painting featuring one or more of my bronze mice, to benefit animal shelters.

Not wanting the fun to end there, I decided to see if the best painters I could find online might be coaxed into painting them so I could curate a book and donate the profits to animal shelters. I thought I'd start by asking only the best, not really sure what kind of response to expect. To my utter delight and disbelief the answers came back with a resounding, "YES"!

Top notch painter after top notch painter wanted in. So I dispatched a small army of mice to get their portraits painted! A PDF and a book are the end result. In the free PDF you'll only find 22 lower resolution images (one per painter).

There are over 60 high resolution images of 47 original paintings by 22 painters in the actual book. Hopefully it will sell like hot cakes and make a bunch of money for animal shelters.

In the PDF there are links for you to be transported to the artists website or blogs."

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Here are a few jpegs from the book featuring the work of some of the many gifted artists who contributed. If you'd like to see more of their work, clicking on their names takes you to their individual blogs:

Paul Coventry-Brown

Jeffrey Hayes

James Neil Hollingsworth

Chris Beck

The book is available for sale for $49.45 through Lulu.com. If you're looking for a unique Christmas gift for a loved one and want to help out a few furry critters in the process, consider this lovely collection.

Hamburger Study - "Animal Style"

"Animal Style" - 6"x 6" - oil on cradled hardboard panel - SOLD

Anyone not familiar with In-n-Out Burger's "secret" menu, or with In-n-Out Burger itself, if you ask for a cheeseburger "Animal Style", you get Thousand Island dressing and grilled onions on your burger. These are the things which make life worth living. Apologies to Fiona (meekly waving hello to my acupuncturist who strongly urged me to stop eating these)

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