Year: 2012

Skull again, thankfully

I started painting a skull amongst all the ongoing abstract madness.

And Then Tonight’s Encaustic Painting in Progress

This one involves COLLAGE. Collage pieces are from a House Industries mailer, I believe.

And now here’s the whole gang so far:

And Some More Encaustic Paintings in Progress

Here are some more encaustic paintings and iterations. Four on wood arranged annoyingly and one on plexiglass.

I’m still working on all these. This is a weird medium and I need more practice with the flame-thrower.

This Jake Sutton Character

I received a certain motivation to start this excellent portrait of Jake Sutton.

Please note: The Sutton family are distinguished patrons, so they get bonus artwork.

I’m gonna need to work a bit on the FACE.

Gonna do a slight pink adjustment and after that: Fuck it, I’m varnishing these and they’re done.

These are very much varnished and done.

These Old Skull Paintings

I just pulled these out with the intention of painting over them, but upon further inspection I’m not certain what to do with them. Sure it’s impractical to own two gigantic paintings of skull faces, but y’all are rich.

Oh crap I have detail views

And then I varnished them

These paintings are reversible

Big Ole Paintings Submitted to a Juried Show

This show is at Pirate in Denver. It’s a juried show, so I have no idea if I’ll get in. But take a look at these old 36″x48″ paintings I need to show more often and ultimately sell for $700 of MONEY.

Employee Knowledge

Satan Eat My Spleen

Goddamn Tornado

More Encaustic Paintings in Progress

Here are some more encaustic paintings and iterations. Two on wood, one on plexiglass.

I’ll probably be working on these for at least a few more class sessions. This is a weird medium.

Some of these are looking like a fine cheese and tomato sauce so far. All delicious.

First Encaustic Painting – In Progress

Checkemitout, here’s my first encaustic painting in progress.

1. Weird!
2. Painting with wax!
3. Jasper Johns!

Day of the Dead Show at Pirate Gallery in Denver

Here’s a snapshot of my painting at tonight’s show at Pirate in Denver:

Here’s an old post of the painting in progress.

Oh weird, here’s a photo of the painting from the local weekly:

Here’s the image in full slideshow context.

Bordo Bello 2012 Paintings

Hey, I found a photo of my boards at the actual Bordo Bello show this summer.

Here’s a cropped version of an event photo from Wink Inc & AIGA Colorado:

Yes, I know I painted these on the “wrong” side of the board, but that was because it looked like there was some trouble hanging at the first show I participated in. I see now that they’ve got a solution for that with the wood strips.

Jalapeño Slices and Sushi Rolls

It’s important to have a circular pattern in the background of your painting.

A circular pattern which resembles the roundness of purple jalapeño slices, goddamn olive slices, and perhaps some sushi rolls.

Hunter S. Thompson Painting

I’ve got this weird painting in progress, thanks to a certain noble patron of the arts. Thank you, Noble Patron.

Some ROY-G-BIVs almost done.

I got my shadow all up into these images.

Bordo Bello 2012 Paintings

I just started with these, so hopefully I can get ’em done by Sept 6. I will say that after about 10yrs of neglection, I finally understand the importance of gesso.

Yeah, I’m gonna have to be done now. Gotta drop these off tomorrow.

The Boss Will See You Now on Another Sutton Wall

Here is what my “The Boss Will See You Now” painting looks like on Ol’ Yake’s other wall.

Collection of Jake and Heather Sutton.

Faces and Abstract Organic in Chicago

Here is what some of my acrylic paintings look like on Soups-and-Dan’s wall in Chicago.
(within the white borders)
(“Four Misanthropes” on the left)

It looks like most of the other paintings on the wall were done by none other than Betsy Lam herself.

Collection of Betsy Lam and Daniel Levengood.

Jesus Was A Punk Rocker

Whoa, this one is 36″x48″ and apparently it’s called something like “Satan Eat My Spleen”.

Mr. Cool and The Cools on The Sutton Wall

Here is what my best large painting looks like on Ol’ Yake’s red wall.

Collection of Jake and Heather Sutton.