time lapsed painting construction

for a good long time now, i have been wanting to speed up a time lapse of me doing a fairly large painting from start to finish .. the next big piece i do will be the one .. should be good times .. in the meantime, i'm considering applying for the westport art fair and attending a conference for disabilities this summer .. still waiting for some responses on some other things to keep the summer thunder rolling all smooth like ..

Nightime Skyline & Parkville Gallery

just put the finishing touches on my first nighttime skyline piece .. i'm content with the outcome .. also, I just put 5 pieces in the 'river's bend gallery' in downtown parkville, missouri .. the plan is to have these pieces on consignment for about 3 months .. so, hop on your horse and head to the charming downtown parkville to see this workin real time .. it's up the hill on main street .. cheers ..

another peppermint stack

i had to do the peppermint stack in a window frame .. it had to be done .. these windows are really unraveling well .. i'm going to parkville tomorrow to meet with a gallery owner to discuss hanging possibilities .. also, i'm going to send my application in for a summer art festival at the hyatt downtown .. cheers

los angeles in acrylic

can't tame my california dreamin' .. put LA down in paints on my newest window frame piece .. need to find a good summer gallery home for these .. possibly parkville, mo? cheers ..

student travel piece is siezed

i have started to teach computer classes again to students in the school district i work for .. been doing this for about two months now .. well, this weekend miles and i dropped off a piece at a local park .. we have been putting them on pic nic tables in park areas .. one of my students asked me what my full name was today and smiled wide saying he picked up my piece over the weekend .. he's gonna take this sucker to california for a nice photo.paint travel ride .. feel like i won the lottery in a small way .. cheers ..

newphew art winner

my nephew, nick, won 1st prize in his entire school for a very cool sleek black sculpture he put together .. also, he won a 3rd prize for a replica of van gogh's starry night .. they are both quite impressive .. several times i have tried to sit down with nick and show him a thing or two, but he has it within him .. he's aiming for a career in the video game arts and he's on his way .. good work, sir .. cheers ..

koi kash in a klip

went in today to pick up the last of my publicly displayed artwork at the blu koi .. while there, a manager handed me a wod of bills in a paper clip .. felt like i was involved with some underground bullshit as i slipped the wod into my front pocket .. it felt nice in that illegal, legal sort of way .. so, i'm officially hanging no where and am currently drumming up business .. keep your eyes open for new shows .. cheers ..

auction silence

haven't heard anything back from Our Lady of Peace School or KCPT on the most recent auctions that went by .. in the art world, no news is good news .. if you get a call, it's to pick up your stuff that didn't sell .. so, for those who own these new pieces and are reading this - hang the piece well and recommend my stuff to your enemies .. i'll gladly take their money and ensure they aren't as much a pain in the ass as they are now .. cheers ..

donkey art: jackass style

there's a donkey down the way here in grandview that the kids and i feed regularly .. his name is ebeneezer and months back i painted up a piece .. then, more recently, i met the owners, ben and victoria, to do a story on the donkey in a local publication .. click here to read the article - also, i just posted a video out there that is a compilation of the donkey's scream when we approach the fence to feed him .. click here to watch - that's our story and we're sticking to it .. other than the donkey, i'm trying to drum up some new shows for the rest of the year .. maybe in parkville, maybe in lawrence, maybe in a shop nearst you .. cheers, joe

long week and one sign

it's been a hugely long week and i was fixing up loose ends .. not a lot of paints flying in the studio .. what did happen was .. : i painted a sign for miles' occupational therapists that says 'massage' with a bit of a pond flower at the end, got the mile's MRI pics/paintings framed, cleaned my studio up a bit, took down the cerner show and talked with a local reporter about the travel photo.paint project that will be profiled in print here in the next coupla weeks .. she is actually going to be a part of the venture when she takes a coupla my pieces to colorado - by the royal gorge - to drop some off and report on it .. in the meantime, a new travel photo.paint picture gallery is posted - click here to enjoy - and get some damned sleep, people .. joe

haggle for kc in paints

last night, several neighborhood fellas came by for a nip of drink and some laughs .. somehow, they ended up in our bedroom talking about a painting over kansas city from the kck riverside .. one of my better pieces .. they tried to barter the piece for beer, but i told them i didn't drink .. then, they said, 'why are you drinking that beer?' and i said, 'hmm, i forgot' .. sure, let me think up a quantity that would befit this piece and i'll get my receipt pad .. they left later forgetting they asked anything about anything .. i'm wondering through the dean morriarity style insanity of their talk if they even thought about making a valid bid .. cheers ..

skyline series

the tradition of skylines continue with a new one of chicago .. i'm going to do a series of window panes with newly strewn canvass as the weeks unravel .. enjoy the city out there and tip one back for me .. cheers ..

auction weekend approaching

the spring auction brigade is in full swing .. i will be in a weekend, televised auction for KCPT .. click here for more details .. also, i will be in zen boy's school auction at our lady of peace on april 28th for a fundraising dinner .. in that auction are 3 sets of photo.paint greeting cards, along with a wood cross painted and emblazooned with a pic of the church .. i used wood from their reconstruction project to garner my goods .. click here for more on that one .. other than that, i'm just painting in the garage .. cheers ..

finally the sun sets

i think i'm finally comfortable with a sunset via watercolor .. been a while and i've tried oil, acrylic and watercolor to capture a cool dusk shot from the winter time .. no damned way i could ever capture the essesnce of this particular eve, but it was worth a hat trick to come up with something i dig .. cheers ..

surprise koi sale

over the weekend, i went over to the blue koi in the 39th street district to pick up some food and had a bit of a surprise .. about 4 of my pieces were hanging in the back of the restaurant for the last 3 months and one of the pieces sold .. it was the italian umbrella piece and it was purchased about a week ago .. no one got in touch with me becuase they said they didn't have my contat information .. makes me wonder what would have happened to the pending check and existing pieces if i never made it back by .. ? enjoy the mysteries out there ..

brain scan art

it's a long time coming with this - but i finally sat down and got some watercolors of mile's mri brain scans from the summer - click here to view the gallery - i want to try to get these up in a hospital or another sort of adventurous spot .. cheers ..

ouija arts

some months back, i got an ouija board for zen and i to give it a spin .. we did it several times successfully and got a fella named 'hewig' .. it was and is rather odd to potentially channel spirits, but better zen does it with dad than strangers .. now, the experiment is over and converted into art .. enjoy

more art explosions?

if you need another alternate take of the recent staging of performance art via fireworks, click here to watch - it was from my nephew's cell phone and it's rather nice .. cheers ..

the art thief named todd

figures it was a todd that ripped off artwork, eh? so, i came across this article (click here) about some guy that decided to rip off the artwork of others to mold it as his own .. he's quite the cowardly sort .. not sure what i would do if i saw my stuff either mimiced or ripped off, but it would not be something i could easily let pass .. here's to originality on this rainy and cold kansas city day - cheers ..

tech village

several weeks back, zen boy and i constructed a couple of tech villages to mimic what towns look like from 20,000 feet up in the air from an airplane window .. several of these were made and i'm looking for a couple of good walls to hang these .. cheers ..

art & political rallys

a good friend of mine, jfb, runs a couple of newspapers in Iowa and recently attended a town hall meeting with barack obama .. the photo.paint venture was a part of the adventure .. here is what jfb had to say .. "Yeah, I was pretty impressed with the whole event. It was run like a true town hall forum with anyone in the crowd able to come up and ask a question. ...at one point, I even screamed out 'Joe Dimino dot com!' .. I thought they were going to throw me out."

short lived painting

the other night, i swapped out a painting for a bio i had hanging at the cerner install .. well, that painting promplty sold that evening .. i barely had the painting over a week .. i'm very glad it's going into good hands .. enjoy it, jim .. cheers ..

artist reception at cerner

several nights ago, we had a very nice eve at Cerner Corporation talking to a nice group of employees .. they were full of hospitality and made the group at ease .. it was one of the best places i have ever had an artist reception .. good work, cerner and thanks to dawn and the vision center .. if you want to take a look at a condensed version of the speech i gave to the group about my work, click here .. cheers ..

Every Earth Event from Yesterday

This four-minute video recaps everything that happened on earth yesterday.



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final postcard/business card

last week, we got the new load of postcards and business cards in the mail .. dean over at august hour did a solid job capturing the photo.paint feel .. i'm putting some proofs up here for posterity .. soon, i will also have them on www.joedimino.com .. cheers ..

the vision of art

a friend forwarded over to me an article about how the artist vs. the non-artist scans a painting when they are on a good look over some pieces in a gallery .. click here to read the full text .. quite interesting how much the eye darts and what sticks in the brain .. also, once i get a week long shuffle of web issues resolved, i will post the new designs for my post cards and business cards for promo purposes .. both are quite sexy .. both were produced by our friends at august hour productions .. check them out by clicking here cheers ..

kc in paints

i finally captured what i would consider a solid painting of the downtown kc skyline .. it's a part of the permanent private collection and we like it in a free frame courtesy of the grandview school distirct .. enjoy

the planet in the sky

the other morning on my way to work, i saw a sun that looked like a new planet had mushroomed into our galaxy .. it was so nice that i had to pull over immediately and try to get a good picture .. when i did, a motorcycle cop pulled up beside me and asked what i was doing .. i told him that i was taking a picture of the sun .. at that, he looked forward and said 'what sun' to the slowly shrinking miracle sun behind a cloud of gray .. and he said, 'oh, i see it. i thought you were taking a picture of my officer down there.' at that, i finally saw a motorcycle cop with swirling cherries and lamented that i didn't get a better shot of a sun that a digital picture would do no justice for .. cheers.

numbers and sketches

as i write this out, i'm thinking that i'm one of the few that looks at this blog with any regularity .. unless most don't provide feedback .. also, i think i produce too much stuff .. came across some sketches from an unknown period of time in my life .. i've attched one for your viewing pleasure .. thank you for reading .. bye-bye

portable & royalty free

i was thinking today that i have been painting a lot of images of places i would like to visit or live .. in fact, most have been places that i have briefly visited from time to time .. i was also thinking that i would like to embark on a new series called 'royalty free' and extolling the notion of immortalizing the already immortal copyright free imagery available to us all .. i found some NYC skyline shots and an attractive lighthouse that would be nice to etch with paint .. enjoy the warm sun out there .. cheers ..

travel web upgrade

i just updated the 'travel' web portal on joedimino.com - click here to view - this includes a map of existing and future drop offs, along with a page of feedback on the project .. enjoy

textured jazz pic

in the span of 24 hours, i have relcaimed the coveted photo that i never took .. karen over at KCPT was nice enough to snap a pic of the 'textured jazz' piece that will be up in the new spring acution .. cheers

auctions and lost pics

on saturday, an individual from KCPT came out to pick up a piece for their spring auction .. it's a long ago piece that has an old saxaphone with wiring coming out of the end of it .. after the piece was picked up, I realized it was one of the very, very few paintings I have that does not have a picture of it .. i was going to post it for your viewing pleasure, but no such picture exists .. instead, you can see it when the auction is aired on the television during their spring drive during April 27 - May 5 .. in the meantime, I'm working on getting an auction employee to send me over a pic .. for now you can see the tax receipt and just imagine .. cheers

cloud hand of spring

the other night i grabbed a pic of a very cool cloud of pending storms trying to engulf the sunset .. all around there were cool images of cumulonimbus clouds bringing in thick rains .. enjoy ..

devil art travels to NC

Joltin Joe - One of your paintings will be attending the Duke / Carolina game this Sunday at the Dean Dome. If the game's on your t.v., you might keep an eye out. - G Money

new media and cerner

thanks to august hour productions, we should have some new photo.paint business cards and post cards real soon .. they look very nice .. also, a tentative arrangement has been made with cerner to have a meet/greet and walk through during the second to third week in march .. in addition, a new brochure for my work up a cerner has been published and is being distributed to visitors there at the vision center .. just secured a couple of copies in the mail and will post for your viewing pleasure soon .. i have put a sample of the new post card layout .. cheers ..

firecracker canvass rip

yesterday marked the very first installment of 'performance art' in the photo.paint series .. at the request of mr. west and to satiate a 5 year itch of my own, i staged a milk crate platform to explode a standard canvass .. it was filmed, recorded and a new video can be access by clicking here .. it was a delightul project and the results were both expected and unexpected .. i thought there was gonna be more canvass carnage, but the existing holes were quite nice .. cheers

New Photo.Paint Log Posted

the dot continues to spread .. in the next video installment, volume 7, the project gets mailed and hand delivered to the following states: Iowa, North Carolina, Maryland, California and other parts of Missouri .. click here to enjoy the deliciousness .. cheers ..

donating church auction art

just did about 6 new pieces for an Our Lady of Peace auction that is this spring .. i got old wood from a reconstruction project at the church and turned it into some pieces .. enjoy ..

serene art rejection

i enjoy the calm serenity of an art rejection letter: We recently received samples of your artwork. Thank you for your submission to our gallery; it was a pleasure to review it. However, we do not feel that it fits our vision of the gallery at this time. If you wish your cd and printed materials to be returned to you, please send us a self-addressed, stamped envelope. We wish you the best of luck in the future. Sincerely, Michael, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA - by the way, i have included a picture of my downtown watercolor in bob and melanie's house .. they take care superb care of our miles twice a week .. cheers ..

the august hour

just met with our friends at august hour productions yesterday about doing a new design for some business cards and post cards .. they showed me a cool project/blog called 'unbomb' .. they are asking everyone what would you 'unbomb' .. a very clever notion in the war/destruction happy country of ours .. take a look at this quality video short and weigh in - click here .. cheers ..

the project roll

what's going on lately .. ? i'm currently using used wood from a reconstruction process at the st. catherin'es catholic church up the street to make some artwork with crosses as a central theme for an upcoming auction .. each one will have a gold cross against a dreamy blue backdrop with a photo of the church or statutary on the back .. also, i'm getting the whole performance art thing set up with the actual blowing up of a piece of artwork .. this will become a video stroy and will be posted after it's mixed down .. continuing the photo.paint travel project and a new window series will be started very soon .. there also might be a thing at cerner with a walk through and such .. cheers ..

summertime paint livin'

on a recent visit to mark and jen's place, i snapped a picture of some paintings hanging in their place .. they are fans of the photo.paint and it looks swell in their abode .. they got a stack of paintings to keep the photo.paint travel project going .. towards the home of walt disney, down south and to fullerton, california .. enjoy the blizzard drifts of snow, kids ..

cold morning paint globs

the frigid weather lately hasn't kept me from the garage studio .. in fact, i have gotten to the point where i dig the hot thermous of coffee and heater under the cold thud of heavy air .. after the 10 minutes of warming up to get feeling back into my fingers, i realize that the process of throwing the paints is much better than sleeping .. it's for the birds, you know .. cheers ..

New Video Log: Kansas City, KS

a new video log was flimed in the old sweetness of kansas city, kansas .. to enjoy, click here .. also, we are planning care packages to baltimore and north carolina this very week .. as the red dot grows .. enjoy ..

finders keepers?

one of the coolest oddities to happen out of this new 'travel' project is one particular drop off to a now defunct business .. the business is called 'finders keepers' and it's in martin city .. guess the place is closed down for good becuase every time i drive by i still see my painting leaning against their now vacant front doors .. it didn't look out of business because most of the town that is working and alive looks tranquil and out of business .. and sometimes i think i should scoop it back up and instantly pause and realize it's way too classic to fetch it back .. come on - the it's all in the name ..

the danger of adhesives

in the early years of my painting jaunts, i had a real hard time with adhesives .. putting nails through canvasses and other surfaces have later come to cut my fingers to bits .. at one point, i was trying to melt crayon wax onto a canvass that already contained a nice amount of flamable glue and lit the entire canvass on fire .. the flames licked up high and i was on carpeting covered with newsprint .. as i beat the canvass to put the fire out, my hand caught fire and the fire did not change it's conjecture .. in my panic, i continued to beat the canvass until the fire went out .. the result was a pretty badly burnt hand and a near insurance disaster in a home i didn't own .. the morale of this story, is that i now use gorilla glue, good screws and never mince fire with a creation i want to concoct .. cheers ..

new orleans in sketch

my father in law, austinshute.com, recently gave carrie and i some cool sketches from a client of his down in new orleans .. they were from the 60's and his client happened to be a local artist that sent him some composite sketches of landmarks in new orleans .. the originals are in our possession and the dude's name was e. garic .. i had no luck doing a google on him, but these prove he knew what was going on .. cheers ..

final paint home of moby

recently, i had the opportunity to see the final resting space of my 'moby' ticket stub piece .. it's at the BOWSE law firm and it looked rather nice in it's locale .. always nice to see your work in the new home after it's purchase .. and if you all have any of my work in your homes - take a picture and send it on over for public display .. cheers ..

the finger finds a good home

at long last, nearly 9 years in the making, and the painting simply known as 'the finger' is sold to mr. david oliver .. it's in a cleverly decorated office looking over the sprawling buildings of kansas city .. i very happy at it's final destination and wish mr. oliver a good life with a painting that was pondered for possible purchase many, many times over throughout the years .. enjoy ..

Traveling Through Martin City and Kansas

this weekend, we littered the travel photo.paint project through martin city and overland park .. i haven't officially gotten a response back on the drops so far, but if there are silent voices that dig the work, that's fine .. it will continue .. new cities each week .. and as the days pass, you just may be next .. cheers ..