Sculpture: “Red Scare”

 Plaster, Acrylic paint, and an in situ dead shrub.

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Acrylic Skull Painting

 Skull, Acrylic on canvas 24X36”.

Another damn skull, this time playing with Golden Artist Colors metallic gold and black mica flake.

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From My Sketchbooks: Thinking of Toys and Play

 Three drawings from one of my pencil drawing notebooks. The Rhodia paper is lovely with pencil.

I was collecting thoughts on creative backyard play, and remembered how much fun it was to build temporary play structures, you know, forts and such.

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I seem to have custom toys on my mind a lot, and made this sketch of a goofy custom figure that I could sculpt and cast for the barnebarn.

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Puppets are something I adore, and here is an idea for a naughty hyper-sexed puppet who likes beads. 

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Studio Pics

 Atelier Luteiventris pics.

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Painting: “Nowhere To Hide”

 “Nowhere To Hide” 16x20” Watercolor and gouache on Aquabord.

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A trippy painting…I started painting this soon after this summer’s Heat Dome in the midst of the current pandemic and opioid epidemic. As I look on it now, I think it reflects my feeling of dread of the new regimes taking over our lives: a new climatic regime and an authoritarian regime rising. Both happening with no apparent purposeful reaction or resistance.

Please vote. Every Election.

Painting: “Falling For It”

 Their System, 

     Ensures Our Precarity

Their Religion, 

    Encourages Our Nightmares

And, As Ever, We’re All Falling For It.

    

“Falling For It” 24x36” Watercolor and gouache on canvas.

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Don’t fall for it. VOTE!

PadPucks by Artograph

Artograph PadPucks are a favorite tool of mine in the studio. Every once in a while I do use them to support an iPad while drawing; but mostly they’re used as project supports.

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Great all-around support in the studio. They come in sets of four, and you’ll find that you use them in your painting and craft practices nearly every day.

https://www.dickblick.com/products/artograph-padpucks/ 

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They’re not just for painting edges; I find all kinds of uses for them. Here they are being used to support green branches while waterproof glue is being applied to the ends.

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Some primers and adhesives cause the PadPucks to be permanently sticky, so I cover mine with wax paper or baggies.