battle point at the end of summer

the gloaming 21x34cm
after seeing an impressionist show one likes to get out the alizarin crimson to throw at shadows. 

the truth about lanterns

ape cave 21x21cm
plato has a story about some republicans in a cave gazing at shadows. i am a little hazy on the details because i only had a flashlight.

what is remembered

the wreath model 55x34cm
here are two first cousins and their older 2nd cousin once removed or as my first cousin once removed joel, says, just cousins.

a walk in the forest with my nephews

into the woods 21x34cm
lighting by ray

late summer sea scapes

la push 6/9/15 30x22cm

hood canal 9/12/15 30x22cm

la push 9/5/15 30x22cm

la push 9/5/15 30x22cm

joseph at la push 9/6/15 30x22cm

an unexpected concert

the harp concert 21x21cm (sold)

don't trust the advice of serpents

the harps of heaven play the songs of string theory or not as the case may be 21x34cm (sold)
frames and museums are helpful by letting people know what is art and what is not.  

worst case scenario

the land of peace and tranquility 34x21cm

there is a general consensus that the seas of earth will boil away as the sun prepares for red giantness, most saying this will happen 1 to 3 billion years from now though i went to a talk at the library where one outrider said that another outrider ran a computer climate simulation that included the methane seeping out of the melting ice and warming ocean floors and came up with boiling seas by 2080, or maybe by 2085. i guess i should have been taking notes.

emergency replacement show at Gilbert Thomes Jewelry

friday september 11^th 6:00-8:00 at Gilbert Thomes Jewelry 500 Winslow Way E Bainbridge Island.

it is perhaps appropriate that this show is a last minute replacement. Originally i thought i was painting towards a show at Grace Episcopal Church and i did have a show lined up there but soon after i got it i transposed in my mind that it was this year and not next year and September and not October but this show is about the idea derived from string theory (never mind that my friend John, a particle physicist by training (he has the cern t-shirts to prove it) thinks that the string theory people are rather baseless) that there are multiple universes, new ones created every instance, an infinite amount of them, and if this is so would not any story one came up with no matter how absurd be true in some place and in some time?

tiger tiger in the sky 21x34cm (sold)

baroque tendencies underground 34x21cm (sold)

turret view 21x21cm

mezzetino 21x21cm

erin's carpet 21x21cm

rest on the flight to calabria 21x21cm

the four color room 13x21cm

defiance 13x21cm (sold)

up on the roof 13x21cm

Exodus Station 34x21cm

sipapuni 21x34cm

V2 21x13cm

aurel's carpet 55X89cm (sold)

ship wreck 68x42cm (sold)

a picnic at the end of the world 89X55cm 

a boy and his dog

a new world 34x21cm

the 4th book is secret

Camille 34x55cm

waiting for the late boat

baroque tendencies underground 34x21cm (sold)

flying carpets through the ages

tiger tiger in the sky 21x34cm (sold)

flying carpet 55x89cm

erin's carpet 21x21cm

aurel's carpet 55x89cm

a small show at the auburn senior center, may through june

                                                         6 ideas of water

This is a fairly disparate group of paintings I have gathered here but perhaps they are unified by the figures in them. Many of the figures are relatives, some are friends, 3 are relatives and one is a total stranger whom I asked if I could capture their image. Another unifier is water. Every painting has a depiction of a river or an arm of the sea, or perhaps a lake, though one only has within it a painting of the sea and in another you can't see the river but if you listen closely you can hear that the song is about the river.

mezzetino 21x21cm
the history of the world is thick with paintings and i wasn't thinking of watteau's "mezzetin" when i snapped a photo of my nephew, the photographer playing my sister's guitar on a summer's night but with that statue of aphrodite in the back yard how could i not have. the statue has some meaning but my sister will only tell me that it is hard to mow around.

erin's flying carpet 21x21cm
you are thinking she is going to crash but no, the carpet comes with eyes. you might also think that aurel is being venerated for sitting on the pillar but they are actually imploring him to come down already and get something to eat.

rest on the flight to calabria 21x21cm
about 500 years ago some of my ancestors had to leave france because as i have heard from two separate sources they might have been horse thieves.

veneration of the old masters 21x21cm

embarcation 21x21cm (sold)

in arcadia 21x21cm

a trip to the library: the best of all possible worlds

the death of winter 55x34cm (sold)
i do like to go to the library on tuesday nights as it is pajama night and Susan has a seemingly infinite array of interesting pajamas but i often find myself there in the middle of the day under a  bright sky engaged in an interesting conversation with Patrick.

grapes in a fig tree at night

the light machine 55x34cm (sold)
mr inclan's discussion of his piece with dr lim garners attention from afar. 

composition on wrinkled canvas

centaur 89x89cm

joseph now and then

turret view 21x21cm

sipapuni 21x34cm

three by the sea 21x21cm

joseph's wall 21x21cm

joe in dirt 21x21cm

mr green 21x34cm

songs by the river

mezzetino 21x21cm
the history of the world is thick with paintings and i wasn't thinking of watteau's "mezzetin" when i snapped a photo of my nephew, the photographer playing my sister's guitar on a summer's night but with that statue of aphrodite in the back yard how could i not have. the statue has some meaning but my sister will only tell me that it is hard to mow around.