it's been a busy week for art business arrangements... not so much painting going on as there is fine tuning.  met with a woman from the casket arts building yesterday to figure out my location for the first thursdays... starting may 6th. more details coming... but i will be showing at the casket arts building from 5-9pm this thursday! come say hi.
also, secured a show at the nomad for may... i will be hanging everything on monday, may 3rd... there will be a reception ... probably on the 18th... but details coming soon also. 
that said... i spent some time yesterday making cuts from my painting roster. i have hundreds of paintings... and every 6 months or so, i go through and take an honest look at them. i make 2 piles... and the ones in the second pile end up like this! out with the old, in with the new... :)

i also found these little robots hiding out in a pile of old paintings :)

i've been using etsy to advertise my paintings for the last few years and i am finally making the transition to my own personal website... i do still have a few paintings up on etsy and every now and then i get an email that someone has used one of my paintings as a feature in their etsy treasury. this etsy feature came to me via email today:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bd5944410ae6d91eb065342 
i hung new paintings at duplex friday morning and picked up new promo materials for shows i am doing in may/june. things are moving full speed ahead for summer shows! i can't wait! 

i've found a spot to show at the casket arts building ... 681 17th Avenue NE... the first thursday of the month June - December... i have a lot of events and shows happening this summer and i am really trying to get things in order so it doesn't all happen at once.
june is going to be a really busy month for me... 

i have a show at the cedar cultural center, i am participating in the winsted arts in the park, i have an opening at artifex manum in uptown, i have the first thursday show on june 3rd and i hang another show at hard times cafe on june 15th~

whew!
time to make a mess... :)

i've spent the last week battling a nasty cold... AGAIN. .. i can only assume it's leftovers from pre-austin. anyway... my art's been on the back burner to my body... feeling a lot better today... i hope to finish up one more painting to replace the few that sold at duplex and get them up by wednesday... PHANTOGRAM tonight with lola :)

i have been doing my best to update my website as often as possible with the newest things i am doing... but today i uploaded a bunch of older paintings... and i thought i'd post a few of my old favorites here....

photographing paintings in the morning is a silly game of staging and editing... but it always seems i have the most time in the morning... 
i went for a long walk in the rain this morning, no umbrella... i guess coffee shops don't open before 7 am... save spy house... thanks for the hot mocha and the van morrison... this morning i was craving rain songs and van morrison's ... "and it stoned me" has long reminded me of sudden showers on a sunny summer day... thank you coffee shop guy!...
so, here's what i've been up to lately... and a couple rainy photos from this morning...

i love the secret hours of the morning before sunrise. i used to dread sitting up in bed at 4:30 in the morning... tossing and turning... now i jump out of bed, open the windows further.. and finish my paintings from the night before... let the rain come!

today was a long and contemplative day of sunshine and productivity... i spent the morning getting my papers in order and the afternoon getting my paint on.
inspiration is everywhere... sometimes in a beach boys song...

it's always so much fun when someone buys a painting and then gives me the back-story as to why... or even better if they send photos... :) i received these this morning...