nudder painting

new work new lens

Got a new old lens yesterday and tried it out around the house real quick.  Looking forward to seeing what it gives me.  Also, got some new little paintings coming along.  enjoy......

getting the last wall done

I have been working on a couple of dressing room walls for Surf City surf shop this past week and with too much work at my B-fish I have had to stretch this project out a lot longer than what I had expected.  I'm getting near the end and should be all finished by Tuesday.  It'll be really cool when complete!! enjoy.......

fins

a couple from this week for the festivals coming up,  yew!!!!

new work

Olympus

Let me take you through a usual day.  I wake kind of early,  around 6, make a pot of coffee and read, then stretch and read a little more.  All the while loading up on coffee.  I'll check the waves up north and around here and decide if I wanna go shoot some pics or struggle with the rubber and actually go out. Hint, I don't LIKE putting on a wetsuit, so that is almost always a last resort!  After a couple of hours of stretching, reading, and so on, I"ll have a little walk around the beach.  Get back home and begin the process of a new painting.  This involves alot of decisions on what size, medium, paper or canvas, you get the idea.  By lunchtime I've almost always got something going and begin working through your usual lunchtime and after a few hours of drawing, painting, and so forth hunger usually takes over and I have a PBJ.  Mid afternoon comes and I have to begin winding down in order to get ready for my evening job, unless I have that night off, then I will just keep going and completely lose track of time, not eat, and work on a few paintings at once.  I do this because the winter waves are few and far between and like I said, I DO NOT LIKE WETSUITS.  Thus is the life of a beach bum...........

sound beach

abstract paintings

ascension

paper bags

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I'll paint on just about anything when in the mood, mirrors, a brick fireplace, and now paper bags from a local market.  It's got me going through memories of Key West, eeking out cash by selling charcoals, pastels, and such on cardboard I would find behind the restaraunts.  enjoy.......

brightness on a rainy day

So I have acummulated some windows to paint.  Well it started as one for a client but I got carried away and got six plus a glass door.  I'm in production mode today......

spill

bubble toes on the nose

oil on paper, 22X30

Surfrider's earth day music fest!!!!

carnation, wet

Local Artists at Fresh Brewed

A friend had told me about some songwriters performing at a local coffee house tonight.....So I talked my friend Bob into coming along, we had a little dinner at Mr. Fish(da bomb!!!) then headed to fresh brewed.  Great artists are here in the redneck riviera.  enjoy......

new work

"Frisco Pier" and others

nothing but flowers

"Years ago, I was an angry young man, I'd pretend that I was a billboard, standing tall, by the side of the road, I fell in love with a beautiful highway"

Today was Talking Heads day.  I listened to good ol'e Mr. Byrne and his cohorts for a while, got motivated to do some pics and even caught a really nice swell.  Water's getting cold though. 
I'm not sure if I'll be going out in the water anymore before spring, the old bones don't like the cold H2O!!  anyway.... enjoy....

Global Awareness Project Nov. Show

What a great show this was!! 75 artists participated and we had 175 kids come for workshops. Looking forward to the next show in March.

new painting- spring tide

So I have been participating in Global Awareness Projects artwalks and shows since March. Last night and tonight we are showing at a night club in Myrtle Beach. Today we had 175 kids from a local school for 4 workshops ranging from Improv to Painting and it was a wild experience to see all these kids from so many different walks of life to create in their own individual way. Spring Tide was done especially for this show.