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The beach is only about two miles away from my home, so you’ll be seeing lots of ocean-themed art by me. Here is some more line art. I really like the accessibility of this type of art — I just pick up my pens and go for it. No paint, prep work, or organizing. This […]
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It was my opportunity and pleasure to spend more drawing time near the ocean. Yay! It really is the most soothing thing ever, sitting in the sun, bring directly in front of the subject matter, all while being able to take in other sensory details to enhance the drawing. How does it feel to be next […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE Ink on paper. I took my drawing to the beach! I felt very artsy as I sat in the sun, near the ocean, and drew the shoreline and picturesque dark rocks. Possibly I’ll color this later, but for now I like the simplicity of the dark lines and the white, […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″ x 24″ oil on canvas. After attending a Van Gogh exhibition in San Francisco (if you ever get a chance to see his work, run, leap, fly out of your house and go see it) I got interested in impressionism. As the old masters used oils, I gave it a try! […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. This is one of the first paintings I ever worked on. Even though it’s not at all what I wanted it to be, I learned from it, and had a massive amount of fun. It gave me a great appreciation for impressionism. I did eventually […]
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We were pb&j with a spread of apple butter, smooth. Calm as cucumber skin. We rolled our oats: small dirt-clad seeds in the summer steam. We ploughed every field, those small, outspread weeds just drifted in.
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With eyes closed, reaching into the dishwasher, hand over smooth and pricking mountains, curve and point, spoon and fork unknown to me, feels like a tactile attack. I hold the fork firmly, bow my head, and say a silent prayer — the woes of here and yesterday, the cold utensil in hand, the welcome […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE Graphite on paper. Made from a reference photograph on 6/18/2015. I’ve been working on short session portrait sketches. This one took an hour, and as you can see there are lots of marks. It is not finalized. I’ve been trying to develop my eye — being able to sketch from a […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE Graphite on paper. Based from a reference photograph. I’ve been enjoying making portraits lately. The human face is so intricate and fascinating. I spent a bit more time with shading for this practice, particularly evident with the lips.
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Don’t bring your love to a gunfight among strangers, barricades on the boulevard, bloody and bold, with windows into skies I held you with an army inside, the pounding pronounced and promising, down the streets of existence, where resistance was built in bitter moments stacked like lost bodies entrenched, there is a climbing that final […]
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I have seventy poems selected for my chapbook, all approved, edited, and ready to be finalized! They date within the last five years. It’s hard to look at my life in terms of title, theme, and symbolism, and not feel a little self-conscious. I have been exclaiming to myself, “Did I really write that?” and “Wow. […]
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ABOUT THIS ARTWORK Soft pastel on pastel paper made in February 2015, taken from a reference photo of a purple vase filled with and surrounded by roses. It’s one of my first attempts at a pastel work. I found building up the colors a bit tedious and very messy, but that’s likely because I […]
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A month ago, my editor at LBME Publishing set this blog up for me. He said it would help my readers get to know me. So, here goes. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Frankly, I spent an entire month being intimidated by the mere existence of this site, contemplating and agonizing over what I […]
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