New Holiday Tree Window Pane Framer

Why We Do What We Do ..

The other day, my great-grandma in law came over to celebrate my son's Christmas a bit early. During a bit of downtime, my youngest, Miles (5), asked his grandma Lucille to sit down and do some painting. At this urging, the 85-year old Lucille nodded in perplexed, yet content agreement to paint with Miles. As she pondered what to etch, she said that she had never painted anything in her life .. ever. She had never touched a paint brush with paints in her entire life. One of those rare moments of age and coolness in life when you watch with anticipation. Probably the coolest several minutes to see my boy that has been immersed in art his entire life meet his grandma at the proverbial easel as she finally creates her first real painting ..

New Karate Art

Darth Vader Christmas Mouth Art-ish Decoration

camera re-birth

Art in the Summers Home

Painting in Reverse

Inside Auction Night

cool yard art via my son

Artwork in a Digital Frame

The Making of a Fall Painting

Fall Leaf Paints / Morph

Upcoming Nov. 19th Auction in KC Arts District - 2 Donated Pieces

Art in the Early Days

Growing up, my best friend, Matt Sweeny, and I used to really hit the links and get autographs from a variety of sports figures. From the KC Chiefs practicing in Liberty, MO, to KC Royals players that used to go to malls and golf courses to mingle with the autograph hungry public. My friend Matt passed along when I was 16 and years back his mom gave me his scant baseball/sports card/autograph collection. As a small glimpse into what I consider art from the early years, here's a bit of a tribute to Matt's effort and our friendship ..

It's Been Slow Lately ..

FALLING FAST: leaves montage

official karate calendar with the artwork

rural missouri in the fall

art featured on a karate calendar fundraiser

playground environmental face art

tree form

new paints

unearthed high school artwork from the 80's

sidewalk chalk art

a stack of 9's

PHOTO ESSAY: a walk through an arborteum

new fireplace mantle artwork

sexiest piece of art i have landed in a long time

new swirl commission piece ..

union station art drops - 8.29.09

newly framed and delivered karate watercolor

a sketch from 14 years ago .. fred bloom

summer '09 cloud fun

alien lawn orb art

possibe mayoral art

After lying these two pieces of kid art down on benches in loose park, i took my son down to the playground. During this time, I watched how folks were interacting with the pieces. Shortly after I placed them, the Mayor of Kansas City, Mark Funhouser, was strolling up with his wife and son. They stopped to peer at the piece and the message on the back, but decided to lay it back down. Good times ..

macro mantis

a bit of the on location paints ..

kcmo plaza drops - 8.15.09

the file size on this shot from the 4th as 666 kb

travel art: getting clean at the jc nichols fountain

travel art in hawaii - july '09

avoid the chinese comments ..

my blog comments have been getting innudated lately by a buncha chinese hackers that are posting malicious links .. just avoid clicking on any of 'em .. then, wash your hands .. buy an original piece of art .. and you will then be free and clear, baby ..

bug

tee-pee

that making a patent photo.paint ball ...

a distant memory of yosemite ...

painting the golden years: a happy anniversary coupla kids

morphing paris & frisco

real 4th of july artwork

puzzling orange city line ..

the smell of transport

i just transported the last of my paintings that were in storage at my mother-in-law's home. i used to have stacks in multiple homes before getting enough storage on my own. at any rate, i dig the smell of those old paintings with their still drying oils and such .. a true highlight, along with seeing a stack of stuff i had forgotten was created .. cheers out there ..

one of my favorite things ..

picked this up at an estate sale years ago .. i still wonder if it's a real, serious thing or a cooked joke .. i'm opting for reality on this little art gem ..

i dug jacko ...

one more piece of father's day art from the kids ..

puzzling city

Cover Art for Poem Books

I still hold a high regard for my love of writing. Over the years, I have created my own cover for a host of anthologies. If you want to parooze some of my poems, simply click here - cheers ..

painting a palace time lapser

my son's sketch of me for father's day ....

the temple

death of analog performance art

large tree protecting a creek

desert paints in the living room

alive on suicidal cheeseburger

mr. jimbo attikus was gracious enough to welcome me into his community with my own presence and page .. nice work, jimbo, great to have another worthy web home .. click here to view ..

mailbox shit

it used to be that i got lots of shit in my mailbox. now, we constantly have shit all over our mailbox. this pic is just a taste of what the birds do to my mail home .. we may have to crack open a can of white spray paint and end the bathroom stall party ..

assorted folly through the years

father son talk as color blobs

new red sky window pane

random home time lapse look

belton garage art sale day - 5.16.09

art gettin' around with mr. west ..

performance art: crossing the painted creek

farm window painting for miles

etching thoughts

every picture i have taken, thus far, in 2009

my look at europe circa the 2000's in 3 minutes

May 1 Action: Crossroads and Tension

This Friday May 1, I will be in the Crossroads for my group showing at the Haden Lofts. Also, I will be displaying reprints of my Tension envelope photo.paint pieces for the owner of Tension, Bert Berkley, who will be in Grandview Alternative School. Hop on down into the city that night and have a hot dog or 2 .. Cheers ..

Haden Lofts - Crossroads Art District - May '09

.. more hubcap paintin' fun with the kid ..

Tension Envelopes Package: On Site

Mr. David Oliver sent over the 'Tension' photo.paint package hanging in full cheer at Berkowitz Oliver William Shaw and Eisenbrandt LLP. We are going to show this to the owner of Tension here in a week or so at some festivities going down at the Alternative school I work at ..

italian oils in my brother's dojo

Alzheimer's Art Auction Donation

New Pod on My Hub Cap Art for Landfillart.org

hearing the q-tip sound colors

today i'm the artist of the day

http://artistoftheday.blogspot.com/

everything i have produced until now in 10 minutes

the coolest thing ..

About 6 years ago I painted up a set of murals with an ex-girlfriend on a coffee table. I held onto the thing for years and it got a lot of compliments. Well, I got to the point that I wanted to have a clean break from the table and any minglings of the past. So, my lovely wife responded to an ad for a school in the KCMO school district that was looking for furniture for a Read 180 room. It was donated and the kids love it. They sent my wife a huge stack of letters addressed to 'Dr. Dimino'. I always wanted to acquire the monicker 'Dr. Dimino' and both my wife and I got it in the coolest possible way. Click here to take a look at the stack of letters. This has to be one of the coolest gifts my wife could have ever given me .. and the fact that a room full of kids dig it is quite cool .. cheers ..

obamaweeklymarch2709

frozen peach tree morph moment

"the boards"

angry red chair

over the last week, miles (4), has been wanting to switch up the artwork on his walls. the other day, he picked one of my favorites in a cool frame i got at a garage sale last summer. it's affectionately called 'the angry red chair'. this was one of our favorite chairs a roommate and i had in my first apartment in midtown. it was a macho chair and i have no idea where it ended up. but, it has been permanently memorialized in paints and graces the miles wall .. enjoy.

solid zenboy artwork he brought home recently