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Day 2 went well. The dragons continued to be the most popular item at the booth and nearly sold out. There was one mishap. Luckily I’ll be able to fix it when I return home. Everything that is available from the show has been added to the shop now. For those interested in the Public…

I’ll tell this story how my husband likes to tell stories: unnecessarily long with random details 🙂 First night in NYC I had to eat at my absolute favorite place, Limon Jungle. As Stefon says, this place has everything….strong drinks, great inexpensive food and best of all, empanadas. I had a banana mojito, Hawaiian empanadas…

Toy Makers of Planet Earth II opens June 1st at Stranger Factory! I will have a series of original figures called Public Enemies. Nine unique wood and resin art deco prohibition era gangsters complete with tommy guns, vintage cars and booze. If you are not in the Albuquerque area, contact Stranger Factory gallery to get…

How many colors do you need to paint a proper sunset? The answer is just shy of a bazillion 🙂 I just got a bunch of these beautiful large Mirths (created by @triplikid) to customize. The quality of these guys is absolutely outstanding. And I am love with the character design. Just starting up painting…

This 12×12 panel began as one of my usual Rorschach style abstracts, with the exception of using ash gray as the background color. I always have a hard time using gray. Even though I tend to love the monochrome look in other artists work (JPK is a prime example).  So I think that gray sparked…

Did a few Neon Fiery Dragons just for Five Points festival in NYC June 2-3. I’ll be in booth 534 this year. If they don’t get snagged at the show, they will be up in the shop on Monday.

Normally, I paint fast. Especially black canvas. Because I typically use a lot of inks and fluids, I have to go quickly to get the desired effects while things are still wet. But today, I was in a mood 🙂 The kind of mood where I felt energized. Like I knew I had hit that…

I wanted to try something a little different than my usual style, and thought using my favorite character from Toy Story 3, Chuckles would be perfect for experimentation. Made almost entirely of wood, he stands a little over 6 inches tall. His hair is a twisted mess of copper painted metallic blue. With black pin…

Oh I know….it has been a long, long time since I did a post for painting of the month. But here I find myself with some time on my hands so why not. And yes, I am aware that it is almost June… I’ve said before I enjoy painting sunsets, but I may have failed…

A close up detail of a still very wet black canvas titled “Doll”… Sometimes I feel like painting is the only release to keep from going completely insane.    

Recently my painting style took a huge change in direction from my previous work. And I’ve been getting messages asking how that happened. Like any good artist, I have an answer: I don’t know 🙂 Ok, that’s not entirely true. I’ll just explain it as best I can with brutal honesty. I’ve noticed shifts in…

So a while back I got a message from a client asking me to do a minor fix. The piece was an older one of mine, a little Mermaid fan art piece. It looked in the picture like the foot was coming up off the shell and it needed a re-glue. Easy peasy, I said.…