let me hit you with it once before the year is out

sketching for a new painting

digital sketching..

Tastes Like Chicken

Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures) from Mike Fleming on Vimeo.

studio morning

fingers crossed I'll finish these panels by December 1st

before i move to ???

sleepless in New York

in New York for 12 days

beast

ceramic dreams

if i was not a painter, this is what i would be doing.

relax

people still make good music Connan Mockasin

go: U.S.NationalArchives

new new underway

soooo time for a studio update.
wanted to make a post to sort of mark the start of a new painting project.

back on january 20th i was living in Germany and as i would do every now and then i woke up and check the news. on the 20th i saw that it was the 20 year anniversary of the 1994 north-ridge earthquake. i was 4 at the time of the quake and it proved to be quite the traumatic experience. from my father brother and i going to the earthquake museum in exposition park the day before to experiencing the quake, my first quake, that night and finally seeing the destruction throughout south central los angeles that morning after. needles to say i was messed up for a while... well after recognizing the anniversary i knew i had to work the even into my painting in some way so online research began. it wasn't long before i came across four photos that i knew i had to paint.

these four photos, taken by an unknown photographer, were somewhere in Los Angeles, moments after the quake. no windows, mashed geometry, visually straining, casual, and anonymous. there is no indication of location, time of day/night, race or even class of the individual who lived in these spaces. they are open images they could have been anyones media room, office, or storage room.

so 6 months later i find myself back home in Los Angeles sitting with these images on my computer and finally deciding its time to start the process. the photos came up on my computer as 5x7" so in the most simple way i choose to paint them on panels measuring 5x7'. the project began and here are some photos taken in my studio of where i am at now. 

                                      

i built all four panels over the course of a couple days with the help from a friend

built, drawn and ready to start painting

                                   
                           

E i g h t e e n

GALACTIC

Waves of Grain from Keith Skretch on Vimeo.

in my head..

came across these two photos of Manson taken sometime in the 90's. 

they are so painterly to me, the colors the lines dark and light.. 

could come in the play in the near future

some things i'm currently tossing around the studio

Tim Eitel (2010)

Nothing from LJ Frezza on Vimeo.

dog off leash.

the leaf "paintings" are extraordinary.

KILLIN IT

Every now and then 

i see something that makes sense, 

and that makes everything else worth wild. 

L.O.C. 

Oakland, the beautiful

went to oakland for a week 

took no pictures of all the fun things i did

with the exception of this one morning hike. 

what a fun week it was, seeing Drew, J, and G

here are the previously mentioned pictures:

as always

Drew, Coffee, Hiker?

at their camp, a girls camp

hikers

dream house, upper oakland

real Ca. gas

Studio update 4-14

well i have been back in LA for a month now and i thought it would be a god time to post some actual finished and unfinished work up here that i have done during the time I've been back. So here it is:

painting i did during my time studying with Peter Doig in Germany

happy to have it pinned up in the bedroom

in the room old and new stuff up

the studio

?

in progress, part of a series of paintings from stills taken from the Bonanza television series

finished?

newest finished painting, worked this canvas for about two years.

framed this old painting

bench i made recently from a found fence panel 

and some scrap wood left over from various garden construction projects

in progress

found framed collage

(it's perfect)