Rabbit in the Snow

For this painting, I was trying to adapt the traditional Chinese ink painting technique of painting a snowy scene. Snow is the absence of ink or color in traditional Chinese landscape painting. It was fun to suggest a landscape with just a dozen or so quick brushstrokes.

Rabbit in the

Paintings for the Lewis & Clark Multicultural Symposium

Urban Garden (above) is one of the paintings that will be featured at the Lewis and Clark college Art Exhibit Nov. 11-13. The art Exhibit is part of the Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium. If you look closely at the garden, there is a rabbit, two fighting dogs, a goose, and some loving pidgeons mixed in with the humans and vegetation.

This Rabbit Must Be Dead?

I was biking on the Springwater Trail the other day and saw this pudgy white rabbit hopping around the weeds near this industrial/warehouse area. I couldn't help but think that it's days were numbered so I sketched it.

Family Beach Run

Launchpad Gallery is having a group show with the theme of `Family' in October. It should be as spirited, inclusive, and fun as all there open call group shows are. Launchpad is one of the places that makes the Portland art scene unique and welcoming. The above painting is my most recent family themed painting. It as a family running on the beach with a wave about to caress them and stuff happening in the background. About a year I go I did a similar painting, but with birds:

Entries in Erostfest NW

Erosfest (erosfestnw.com) is coming up with an art exhibit in the Pearl. The exhibit will be at Forkfly (forkfly.com) Friday August 7 through Sunday August 9.

We will be able to see why kind of eroticism has been soaking in the rain and baking in the heat.

Dante's Love Orbs

This is a second attempt to paint a self-portrait in the style of a Tibetan Thanka painting. The opposing fish help shed some light on the theme of the painting. The first fish is saying, "Give Dante a fish and it's a meal." The second fish is saying, "Teach Dante to fish and he feeds his ego." This painting points out some of Dante's character flaws while at the same time showing some of his more endearing qualities.