The fourth and final panel of the *Seasons* series commission for clients. This is still a work-in-progress, and this blog entry reveals the initial stages of the painting. I’ll add more photos and commentary as it’s completed.
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The Passage, oil on hardboard. 2025.
It Looks So Real: How Much Realism Do You Need?
A friend of mine and I have been arguing about realism in art. It started with a conversation about photo reference. It prompted a larger question in my mind: what makes realism meaningful in the first place? And how much of it does a viewer actually need?
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Wonderful Commission Work, Part 3: Winter
Winter is the third panel in the Seasons series for my friends, a lovely couple who now live in Arkansas. We met several years ago at an art conference and they were there as avid fans of imaginative realist art. They found my work and subsequently invited us to visit them. Sometime after that, they commissioned this series.
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One of the Sigil “sentinel” wall sculptures in progress, “Protection”.
"The Audacity of Imagination"
My own work is traveling a bit of a strange route of late. Since I’ve delved more into the meaning and making of sigils, I’m finding that they want to crop up everywhere in the art…
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Wonderful Commission Work, Part 2: Spring
Summer is the second panel in the Seasons series for my friends, a lovely couple who now live in Arkansas. We met several years ago at an art conference and they were there as avid fans of imaginative realist art. They found my work and subsequently invited us to visit them. Sometime after that, they commissioned this series.
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Little Kingdom, graphite; Arches mounted to hardboard, 12”. 2023.
Clearing Up A Misconception
I meet someone at a gathering and they find out I’m an Artist. Before I can get even one word out about what kind of work I do, they start telling me about a painting— a painting! they saw at some gallery or show or arts collective. But they didn’t buy it and now it haunts them. They don’t know how to track down the artist but they snapped a photo of the artwork. Breathlessly, with hope in their eyes, they ask me…
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For all you eager beavers…. xo
Artist resources
There are TONS of resources out there for self-initiating artists, and there are many venues to advertise and sell work. Here is a list of many of the resources I’ve used over the years— there are many more newer ones out there to discover.
Read MoreDeath to the Dictator
I brought this recent drawing, “Death To the Dictator”, to IlluXCon 2022. Like most of my work, when I look at it, I remember where I was or what was happening at the time, perhaps down to what music I was listening to. All of my work is freighted with meaning for me, it becomes a sticky note of my space in the world…
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