Oils

This is an oil painting in the style of Giorgio Morandi that I worked on while taking a painting course this summer.The class I took was at Touchstone Center for Crafts. "Touchstone is a unique three-season crafts school in the beautiful Laurel Highlands, only 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."Patrick Daugherty was the instructor. "Patrick has taught painting at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts for more than 25 years and first taught at Touchstone in 1983. Since 1991 he has been on the faculty of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus. Primarily known for his portraits, his detailed and realistic oil paintings are in numerous corporate, private, and museum collections."The bugs here are hungry for the oils in the paint, most got stuck. I was able to remove the bugs, except for some lost limbs, that looked more like eyelashes from a china doll than legs. Sadly most bugs did not live.

Touchstone

Patrick Daugherty

This day and age

It has been a while since I worked on a collage/montage, it seems they just happen when the resources fall into place. I can't tell you where the source images come from, they just accrue on my computer as I find images I like. The feather and the flowers I illustrated myself.

tio tigre

I am a sucker for kittens. This is an early rendering from my tablet. He is a cute little feller ain't he.

out.

BEAR

BEAR
Bare it all
Beer attack
Burrrrr its cold
Bear in the window of the store
What a life like pose
But I guess thats how it goes
when your best friend is a ghost.

I see only one way to skin a cat.

I have a Nikon F, handed down from my mother. It is quite a fine camera,but it weighs a ton.


My First Lobster Louie.

Louie had one claw
this the fishermen plainly saw
what a chap they clapped

Fry him up this prized crustacean
they'll pay ten schilling
for to dine o' his meat so fine

Trees do it all

I heard a man say, that fall is on it's way.

Planar Origami

The world of origami has been flourishing as of late due to some very smart mathematicians and computer scientists.

TED: origami

I want nothing to do with this nonsense.


Imported Japanese origami paper, India ink, Elmers 100% authentic bovine glutamine glue, and a steady hand.

more Beatle mania

Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper

First a drawing in my sketchbook, then traced in illustrator on my tablet.

Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes

sorry if his little pee pee is offensive.

Keeps a ten buck note up his nose
Such a mean old man

Archeological Discovery

Here lye the lost pots of Pompeii, and among the dead they rested for two thousand years with burning ash and crocodile tears. But rain and wind and snow, prevailing gusts of daring trends, they were revealed by chance and manipulation. Perfect vessels the lot except one inferior pot, thrown by the hands of god, not man, who smoothed their earthen bend. And I merely walked along to find them peering from the sand. A vase, a pitcher, and a sconce, with black and white motifs, an octopus and an ox. When I looked down at my foot, I could not help but feel their pain in among the soot. For when the earth ends these ceramics will be lost again.

tat

When you ask your artist friend to draw you a tat and then you don't get it, that is a huge smack in the face.

Naw, just kidding.

This was a great exercise for my design markers. Also a great opportunity to use a few shades of gray, it's a color I often neglect. I know the importance of gray is paramount, specially middle gray.

If you were to get this on your body permanently, I'm not sure if I would be flattered or mortified.

Papaver Biloba

Our back yard is an ongoing project. Like many homes in western PA we have poppies and a ginkgo tree. Both have been very popular design elements throughout history, as inspiration has always been drawn from nature.

It has been said, to capture even a poor likeness of nature is sure to give you beautiful results.

Hand Job

the 4th

happy interdependence day.

This work is watercolor and a collage of news-clippings. I would have kept this piece secret till my show, but the red, white, and blue theme made this an impossible post to pass up.