acrylic / canvas

acrylic / canvas

acrylic

acrylic on canvas

january 26

acrylic

and dead experts

feb 2017

this is me at my sister's dance recital. it's oil on canvas, 2011. a photograph from my baby album inspired this. 

2016. acrylic paint on canvas. i didn't have my car for a few days so i couldn't get to the studio. i covered the floor with towels and with the three tubes of paint i had at home i did this. he kind of formed himself, i like him because he told me who he was right away. 

2016. acrylic on a floor plan found in a dumpster. it was in perfect shape, it was someone's house rolled up and trashed and it was huge. i enjoyed practicing control. 

this was done around the same time as daemon, same acrylic ink and paint, same inspiration, this one is just a little more explosive looking. i experimented a lot with this one, i found new ways to manipulate the materials. this is from 2016. 

this is looking back on leaving the nest at seventeen, it's night terror and the terror of facts, it's acrylic ink and paint on canvas, on the thick, tight kind that i prefer. i had this piece on the floor and i worked it from all sides so it can be hung four ways for same and different scenes. it's from 2016. 

another photo from baby album, but i added the weapon. 2014. this is acrylic on paper. 

this is water color on canvas paper from 2015. i did this as a warm up before starting on a bigger piece. 

this is the same little girl twice. on one hand she is photo ready, on the other hand she is ready to fight. this is an oil on canvas from 2011. it sold last year. 

this is oil on canvas from 2010. i had a lot going on when i painted this, early twenties angst, demons and dreams and an anywhere direction. i've held onto this one. 

this is inspired by my night terror. i'm awake as far as i can tell, but if that were true, what happens wouldn't be happening and i wouldn't see what i see. 

this is acrylic ink and paint on canvas, 2016. 

2015, acrylic ink and paint, i was angry at the canvas, the media, the gun people, everything. this is how i felt. 

2016. black acrylic on canvas paper. it's my invisible band of spirit people and animals. one side is my world and one side is their world. 

2016, acrylic on canvas. this is living in a law office now. i've never tried meth, but i'm close to a few people who have been addicted to it. it's like the drug takes a perfectly good mind and rewires it to live for it. all reason seems to scatter, parts of the brain turn off, happy parts light up until they burn out. it's dark, but it's not one of my darker pieces. 

2016, acrylic ink and paint on canvas. i started this on the easel and then moved it to the floor and then back to the easel. i fought with it. it made me feel inadequate, maybe it was the size, it's larger than the majority of my work (at the time). 

2016. acrylic paint on canvas, similar to rooster cogburn in that i did this from home with what paint i had. it's called stranger because i was becoming that. or the land got strange, probably both. it was an uncomfortable phase of growth. 

sold in 2015 but it's from 2010. it's acrylic on canvas. i did this in dallas after returning from taos. i was about to have a second surgery and i was painting those days to check out of my reality completely. 

2010. acrylic on canvas, taos. i stayed up on the portal with the spiders until about three in the morning with this piece and its fraternal twin. they're playful pieces. 

2010. sold, acrylic on canvas. this is actually two pieces, the bottom is venice on adderall. i would work on two paintings at a time and it turned out that these two belonged together, stacked as one. it's busy with scenes and popping color, i'd read a story about venice that stuck with me and the adderall reference is about heightened senses and constant movement. 

2010, see venice on adderall. 

2010. acrylic on canvas. it's not about walmart customers in general, it was inspired by an experience i had at the walmart in taos. these are not real people. 

2010. acrylic on canvas, taos. 

2010. oil on thin canvas. 

2015. spray paint, acrylic ink and paint. i was a chemist on this day. this hangs by my bathroom. i like what went wrong, my messy layering, up close i like the textures and holes, it's gritty. i was dealing too heavily with doubt, this piece did what i needed it to do. 

2016. acrylic ink and paint on canvas. it's a horrible idea, but in this piece it's just a reaction. 

acrylic on canvas. 2016. 

acrylic on canvas, 2016, mayhem. ready for change. 

2016. acrylic on canvas. this is another night terror inspired piece. something came to me with legs like noodles and low hanging arms, no knees or elbows, just this wobbly thing and i wasn't afraid i was mesmerized. 

2016. sold. acrylic on canvas. this was a floor piece, i stomped around this one with paint stained boots. the movement around this one was high-speed. 

2016. acrylic on canvas. i played a lot with layering on this piece. i was in breakthrough mode, but i wasn't to the other side yet. 

2016. acrylic. 

to my eyes. 2016. acrylic. 

2016. sold. acrylic on canvas. i started to enjoy this piece about halfway through - when it revealed itself to me. it's the peaceful water behind the protective firewall. it makes me aware of frames and extremes and reflective stillness. 

2016. acrylic on canvas. this piece was satisfying to work with because of the gobs of paint that happened. photographing this painting was difficult.

2016. acrylic on canvas. new mixing ideas for colors. 

2016. acrylic ink and paint. i visited jackson pollock's work at the DMA. i left feeling fearless. it lasted for a little series. making this one felt good, like i'd made my own pizza dough and i got to throw it around and add stuff and watching it bake was part of the fun. i had the canvas on the floor and i ran in circles around it, possessed-like. 

sold, 2016, acrylic on canvas. it was clear what it was from the beginning. 

2016. acrylic on canvas. 

2015. sold. acrylic ink and paint on canvas. this goes with the pieces called san bernardino and guns. same anger, same attempt to spread it out and get rid of it.

2015. acrylic ink and paint on canvas. i did this with the san bernardino piece. it was a lot of spraying and dipping and waiting, not much thinking, just doing.