2024
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October Photos
Lingering remenants of summer in golden afternoon sun.
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Mr. Smith tries some electric ski goggles
Electric Ski Goggles
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I remember Clyfford
I remember Clyfford
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Romantic Mexico
Romantic Mexico
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Visiting Orozco
Visiting Orozco
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Escaping the rain and the dark
Escaping the rain and the dark
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Eggs Benedict
I think Eggs Benedict is one of the best low-brow fancy meals. Poaching eggs and making hollandaise both require better than average cooking skill. It’s just hard enough to do right that you can really impress your friends if you can pull it off.
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Snow thoughts
Snowy weather in Portland reminds me of my hometown
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Replacing Substack with Astro and Buttondown in 12 easy steps
Replacing Substack with Astro and Buttondown in 12 easy steps
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New Year's Eve Getaway
The internet is closing in on Glenwood, Washington.
2023
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You can't un-know something
You can't un-know something
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Low stakes, magical drama
Reading Murakami
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Old Mountain
Visiting Machu Picchu
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The road to Machu Picchu
Chinchero, Moray, the Sacred Valley
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Two nights in Cusco
Gasping for air in the thousand-year-old Inca capital.
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Three nights in the Amazon Rainforest
Time stops on the riverside.
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Day 2 in Lima
Are hats illegal here?
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First full day in Lima
Our connecting flight from Atlanta touched down softly. The immigration line was a breeze and our bags popped up on the baggage carousel quickly. The…
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Business party
The mullet theory of work / life balance
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Poodle thoughts
My beloved poodle’s world seems to be shrinking. He had a bought of kennel cough recently. I learned that kennel cough is basically the same as a “cold…
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A new coat of pixels
Thinking technically, minimally
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Notes on the approaching darkness
Foreboding winter
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Suddenly St. Louis
From here, it’s the gateway to the east.
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Notes on an app
Software is made of compromises
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New work: May December
The avocado is a metaphor.
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New work: 11am Continental
Iconic clouds over the Pacific City coast
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Business art: the art of performing business
On Blake Gopnik’s Warhol
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Studio sale
Making room for more art
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Memories of Ireland, England, and Spain
An old travel journal from 2019
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Saturday art walk
Visiting Froelick, Augen, Nucleus, Talon and Antler on a sunny Saturday
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Seattle Art Fair
Overnight in Needle Town
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Local tourism
Visiting my own city
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By hand
Gardening, painting, and other manual labor.
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Considering space goggles at Slim’s
The future intrudes upon my breakfast reading.
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“Donk” is the sound of failure
Adventures in home ownership.
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Shmetaverse
Why do so many visions of the future look like a late 90s video game?
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The center of the earth is full of ghosts
With a few notable exceptions
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Expo Chicago
When someone asks if you’re an art advisor, say ‘yes’
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Go by train
I’m realizing my long-standing daydream of traveling cross-country by train. I boarded the Empire Builder line in Portland, OR around 4:30 yesterday…
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Iconic Clouds
In a new painting titled "Quarterly"
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Meet me at Slim's
I have a rare Saturday to myself so I decide to treat myself to a coffee and a pastry. Maybe I’ll buy a croissant and bring it home, slice it half, and…
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Unhappy little clouds
I have had three free weekend days to get some real physical painting done and three times I have failed to paint clouds. I have two surfaces prepped…
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Rabbit
I first ran across Bobby Abrahamson’s photography in our local St. Johns wine shop. We came in for a glass and sat at one end of their L-shaped bar. I…
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Dog food
Each can of food (Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Adult Urinary SO Loaf Canned Dog Food, 13.5 oz can, case of 24) is the start of four meals. First I put…
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The painted word
Notes on the virtual reality of paintings.
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No notes
The symphony reminded me of college
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Ephemeral mushrooms
A little this and that for a midweek update.
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Practice, practice, practice
My first full week back to work after the holidays had me in jury duty. I was hoping I’d get to hang out at the courthouse for a day, using the time to…
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Deep thoughts with a poodle
It’s 6am and I’m standing in the rain with my poodle. We arrived in Netarts, OR last night around 7. It’s January in the Pacific Northwest, so the sun…
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Their mozzarella sticks are the best
New painting from a portrait study, local landscape, stars, and birds.
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A rainy day in LA County
Alarms are set for 4 am. The poodle is safely snoozing at the in-laws. I pop out of bed and head to the shower. I never sleep soundly the night before a…
2022
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French Toast
This painting began as a digital portrait study based upon a Uniqlo advertisement I liked his serene expression and the direct, angled sunlight…
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Two nights in Kiso Fukushima
We’re getting pretty good at trains. At Kyoto station we locate our train quickly and realize we have some time to kill. We go find snacks for the…
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Four nights in Kyoto (continued)
Part 2
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Four nights in Kyoto
Part 1 of 2
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Two nights in Kanazawa
Our bullet train quietly slid into Kanazawa. We collected ourselves and exited the train station beneath a giant metal and glass canopy fronted by an…
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Two nights in Tokyo
We arrived at Narita airport and blearily made our way through immigration and customs. We were greeted outside of security by an associate of our…
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Thoughts on AI Art
The robotic meat grinder for images is now available.
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October snapshots
And a brief aside about Instagram
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Diner
A new painting of time passing, filling the pool, and ordering coffee
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Diego in San Francisco
But first donuts
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Art crawl for one
I extended my 3-day Labor Day weekend into 4 days by taking Friday off from work. I slept in, took the poodle for a quick bathroom run around the block…
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New work; an artist's profile; can I have a pony?
New work Over the weekend I found the time to photograph some new(ish) works on silk. This first piece is a further iteration on a Uniqlo portrait…
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Welcome to fabulous Art Vegas
We took a long weekend to visit Las Vegas for work and for play. I love Las Vegas enthusiastically and without irony. The strip is unapologetically…
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Website refresh
What is it you say you do here?
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Measure once, cut twice
The bumbling path to painting "Too early for breakfast".
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Pool Poppies and Ring Daisy
In June I finally completed two paintings which had been living on and under my desk for months. Both are further exploring painting atop digital…
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Marjorie, Erwin, and Laura.
These are the names of the three Getaway cabins I’ve rented. Getaway has a campground outside of Glenwood, WA. The cabins are named after employee’s…
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Starts and fits
A four-month blogging hiatus
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Recent work
A commission for a kitchen
2021
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A pre-existing condition
The business model for digital art is not new and it’s not NFTs
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Welcome to New York
The coffee is not very good
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Yellow beacon of glowing hope
Covered and smothered
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Booth life
A day at the art walk
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Prepping for an Art Walk
I’m participating in the St. Johns Art Walk this year. I’ve been a little bit anxious if this is the “right” venue for my work, but friends and family…
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Obfuscated portrait
I have a concept rattling around in my head I’m calling a “denied portrait” - where I obfuscate a portrait with something. I worked on the image below…
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They have the internet on NFTs now
Is there a there there?
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Poppies, flamingos, and frameworks
I found some time to make some art this weekend. I have been collecting photos of spring flowers on my daily dog walks. One morning I discovered that a…
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A visit to a vineyard
I like to call the owner of our local wine shop the mayor of St. Johns. He doesn’t know I call him this, I think he’d be embarrassed. He knows all the…
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A book of small, poetic moments
I have this video in an open browser tab on my phone. I’ve had it open for weeks. I watch it from time to time when I want a peaceful moment. The video…
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Recent work, early 2021
Printer paintings
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Confused, concerned, intrigued
Trying to understand crypto-art without getting too judgy
2020
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Let's meat on the street
I was out walking my dog, Jonah, in the neighborhood. We came to a corner and Jonah became very interested in something. It was meat. In the grass…
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It started with cake
Once, in the before-times, I walked into our office kitchen and saw a mostly-devoured sheet-cake. I snapped a photo. It’s not a good photo. I like the…
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Tomatoes and turtlenecks
I published a new big grid to Instagram and my website. I'm continuing to use Uniqlo ads as source material - but I'm trying to blend in some more…
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15 paintings and a show that didn't happen
I buy a lot of my clothes from Uniqlo; I get a lot of email advertisements from Uniqlo. Back when I was commuting by train from Tacoma to Seattle I took…
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Keeping occupied
Oregon is under a shelter-in-place order. I'm working from home and trying to keep busy. While work keeps me occupied most of the day, I have a lot of…
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Raw materials
I’m traveling right now. I have mornings to myself. So I sit on a balcony with my iPad and paint. I’ve finished three images this week. It’s amazing how…
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Overlapping idealizations
My most recent 'mega-gram' piece collages clouds and my Scottish Rite temple with a portrait painted from a Uniqlo advertisement. The clouds are based…
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Made of math
I lived close enough to the old Scottish Rite in Tacoma that I could watch it being demolished from my kitchen window. I loved this building, this big…
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Some folks call him "the Uniqlo Kid"
I found (stole) this photo from an email promotion of my favorite brand of Japanese fashion basics. I liked the "young Bill Nye Adventures" look to him…
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Gallery hopping in NW Portland
I had some time to go gallery hopping today in Northwest Portland. My first stop was Froelick Gallery where I saw the work of Joe Feddersen. Feddersen…
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A short series of printer-paintings
I started using advertising images from email newsletters as a quick way to find something to draw. It works well because the images that come to me…
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About that banana
So there's this famous banana. Or, at least, there was a banana which is now famous for having been eaten*. The artist is Maurizio Cattelan who is well…
2019
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Eggs over Brighton. A Christmas Miracle
I quietly restarted my art practice back in November. I began with eggs. Drawing and painting eggs in a still life is a long standing traditional way…
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New Year, new internets
New Year, new internet My creative output stalled as I changed jobs. I thought that the lack of commute and the change of scenery would inspire more…
2018
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September 3rd – Feast Arts
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August 20th — Go by train
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July 11, 2018 – poppies and Portraits
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July 5th, 2018 — Down 9th
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June 24, 2018 - Wine, but in a can
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June 25th, 2018 - Everything new is old again
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June 15 – Meddling kids
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June 9th, 2018 – Fences
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June 3rd, 2018 – Walk sign for Division Avenue is ON
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May 31st – Hood River
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May 23, 2018 – Get in, it’s time to go
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May 21, 2018 – New Studio
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May 20, 2018 – Blue Monk
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May 14, 2018 - Tortuga
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May 5, 2018 – The loneliest basketball
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April 29, 2018 – Rails
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April 24, 2018 - Don't draw bananas
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April 25, 2018 - Windows
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April 19th, 2018 - Finding bones
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April 18, 2018 - Stop! Tree thief!
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April 14 2018 - Ma'am
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April 10, 2018 – Every desk is terrible
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March 28, 2018 – No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die
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March 20th, 2018 - Email
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March 7 2018 - Containers
Listen to Containers here
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March 4 - Dave
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February 28, More coffee
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February 24 - Like Las Vegas for kids
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February 13th - Bay Sunrise
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February 5, 2018 - Tacoma Ave.
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January 27 - Ready for spring
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January 22, 2018 - Go by train
You can visit my web painting at http://littleoverripe.com/ (in a reasonably current browser :-)
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January 16th - Vast stretches of water
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The point system
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January 7th - Still Sniffling