Mars Probe

Travel Drop in Tan-Tar-A Hotel

The One Minute Cityscape

The Door is Hung

Melting

Horse Art for Miles' Room

A New Cloudy Road Ahead

Vietnam Wall Art

Years back, I took a kid from the YMCA on a trip to Washington D.C. I love that town and always took it to the limit in that city. Recently, I came across a pastel sketch of the names on the Vietnam Wall I grabbed while looking at that captivating testament to American War .. enjoy your world out there today ..

Peach Tree out Back

4 Cool European Travel Drops

There must have been something in the air today .. I was pondering a journal I kept back in 2000 during my first trip to Italy .. as I was thinking that, a teacher at the high school by the name of Mel was talking about some drops he made recently .. my work was placed in Rome, Venice, Sorrento, Italy - along with Athens, Greece .. the proverbial travel dot continues to spread .. Cheers out there ..

4th of July Fireworks Performance Art

Art From High School Recently Unearthed

Advocate Article on Travel Series

The Jackson County Advocate threw together a rather tasty article on the photo.paint travel project. Thanks, Stephen. Here is the link and enjoy - http://www.jcadvocate.com/

Above the Mantle KC

Invisible Water Art

Paint Ball Bathroom Art for the Kids

Talk to Them about Art

Commissioned Bridge

I am working up a new logo here at work for a colleague and a design scenario caught her fancy enough for me to make a framed print for her .. a floating bridge in the colorful ether .. enjoy ..

Need a Place to Stay .. ?

YMCA Art Auction

I wanted to take this time to thank you for participating in the YMCA Art Auction last Thursday evening. Your painting of the American Skyline at Dusk was sold, however the American Skyline at Morning was not. I believe we will begin cutting checks the beginning of next week for all sold art.

We have a few options when it comes to returning your art. You can come pick it up anytime between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. during the week at our office in Bonner Springs. We are also planning a bigger event similar to the one we just hosted on October 4th. This will be held at The Chateau Avalon in the Legends area. We would be more than willing to hold on to your other piece and put it in this auction. Whatever you choose is fine by us. Let me know what you decide and if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks again for your participation!

Chicago Window Pane in Home Environment

The Art Door in the Summertime

A very good friend of mine, Mark, and his wife Jenny wanted to commission me to do a rather unique painting for a huge wall in the entryway of their home .. their request was an old door and to do whatever felt right on that flank of wood .. the result is this .. it was quite cool to do and I am getting rather comfortable doing work on pieces that are rather non-traditional .. soon, it will be signed/sealed/delivered to the home for a permanent resting place .. cheers out there ..

Hard Beans, Auctions, Banks and Indonesia

Here's a bit of what's been going on lately in the photo.paint world. First, there's a show at the Hard Bean Cafe in downtown Grandview that is going from May - June 2008. A video below shows a sweep of what the show looks like. Also, just gave several cityscapes to the YMCA for an auction in KCK on May 29th. Then, I have 3 pieces that will be on a group display at a Bank in Downtown Peculiar, MO. Finally, my good friend Leah will be taking several pieces of my art over the weekend to Indonesia for the 'travel' adventures. All will be well documented with video/pics for your later viewing pleasure .. I beleive that's all .. cheers ..

Shout out to Grandview Alternative School

I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker in Ms. Cameron's class at Grandview Alternative last week and it was quite cool. It's always nice to divulge the creative ways with the kids and I was impressed with the voracity of their work .. they key is to cultivate and I think these kids are off to a rousing start .. cheers ..

Guitar Art for Zen's Room

Coupla Bird Brains

Blinding Light Signature Painting

My 10-year old boy, Zen, asked me to do a painting of what I thought it was going to be like when that first blast of light hits me right after one passes on. It seemed rather dour, but I decided to go with it. After I finished the piece, I showed Zen and he was immediately like, 'Wow Dad, I get to see your signature in the corner when the light hits me.' He's gone on and on how he will see my signature in the lower left hand corner when it's all said and done. Quite cool ..

Bailey's Wine Bar Fly Through - April to May 2008

Sun Settles the City

Rome Reader Watercolor

Photo.Paint Story: Healing 9/11

Cityscape for April Show

New City Paints for Upcoming April Show in Lee's Summit

Photo.Paint Video Story - Frutta Stand

New Home for the KC Painting

Young Golden Girl

Color Inside the Grays

Red Billled Geese for My Wife's Office Wall

On Location Crayon Photo.Paint Shot

Peace Lovin' Chair

Six months later, I finally finish painting my mother-in-law's old rocker .. kinda nice painting something up so functional .. now, i can start delving into my vacuum world of new ideas .. cheers ..

loose ends and women

i have finally fully recovered from july and the fact that miles has started pre-school .. as such, i am painting an white rocking chair with sunflowers for my mother-in-law and have just began a new series of 'women' .. i dig doing the sketching and painting of women - gives me a better view on a very delightful species .. more importantly, i think my wife really enjoys them .. cheers out there ..

On Location Shot

This is a frame reprint of an originally commissioned piece that is hanging in a conference room at the Alternative School in Grandview.

selling the city in sun

got a call from the river's bend gallery in parkville that one of my paintings finally sold .. after having my work there for nearly 6 months, it finally happened .. on other fronts, i'm gearing up to do a nice, new series of 'women' paintings .. i dig doing themed pieces because it gives me that added insight that is so needed as a male, at times .. cheers out there ..

Circle Paintings Lately

This has been my second 'circle' themed painting I have been commissioned for in the last several weeks .. the first one was a reprint of a commissioned circle piece I did for a person years ago .. this framed reprint will reside in the Grandview Alternative School .. across the hallways at the Center for Alternative Instruction in the Grandview School District, I made a piece called 'Circle of Courage' that is based off an actual design/credo .. they were happy with it .. other than that, i'm going to start painting an old rocking chair to continue my more subdued romp in the artworld .. cheers ..

Travel Paints in Old Belton

Miles and I got back into the groove this weekend and made about 4 drops in Belton over the weekend. It was the older, much cooler part of town. Also, I have picked up the materials for a new commissioned project I'm doing for the Grandview School District .. I miss the brush .. cheers.

Bad Art Museum & More ..

I just had a friend tip me off to a new web site called - 'the museum of bad art' .. it's a haunting, yet delightful romp through all that is odd, found and bizzare .. take a look on your own - http://www.museumofbadart.org/index.html - also, i'm starting to really miss the regular intervals of painting .. got dirty in the studio this morning and it felt real nice .. also, i just framed a commissioned piece of art for the Grandview school district .. it's going to hang in a conference room .. keep on out there ..

Contests & Kid Room

I just entered my KC Landscape painting into a competition put on by Harrah's. The winner will get a 90-foot mural put on a downtown building and $10,000 - onto more realistic measures, I have tweaked and hung a night/day painting pair in Miles' room. I'm having a hard time finding some prized photo albums I need to get some ideas churning .. as I keep looking for them .. it grows delightfully colder/autumn outside .. enjoy ..

Making Art for My Son - Small Travels

As the quietude continues, I realize that the only thing I have been doing for months is creating art for my son's room. It's quite nice and I'm just prepping myself for a new schedule and more time in the studio. As far as shows and such are concerned, the only thing that is still going on is the River's Bend Studio in Parkville, MO .. The other day I got some pics from some of my travel pieces in Hawaii. Also, Miles and I have gone to Peculiar and Harrisonville on some mini trips to drop stuff off .. enjoy your life out there, ya hear ..

Lee's Summit Show

just got a referral from a woman in lee's summit that caught my TV interview this summer .. she referred me to a gallery owner in downtown .. gonna try to stop by sometime here soon and get the ball rolling on a new show .. in the meantime, i keep getting settled into the new studio spot .. gets tastier and tastier each time .. cheers.

New Studio Digs

Just wanted to plop a pic of my new garage studio in the new home .. quite nice tucked into another corner to let the paints dry .. cheers ..

mile's room art

just finished up a piece specifically for miles and his new room .. thought I would test run this on him before hanging and he dug it .. good times .. so, yesterday I got my slides and returned check from the westport art fair .. nothing more in the empty package .. so, i survived as an alternate - maybe next year .. cheers ..

Resting in the Planning

it's been seeeloooow in the photo.paint camp lately .. a very much needed, yet odd kind of break from the veracity that has been going on for the last several years .. trying to come up with some new approaches, doing some art for miles' room and a coupla other commissioned pieces .. overall, it nice to ebb and flow when i want to do some work in the studio .. stay tuned ..

Healing 9-11-01 Via Art

My loverly wife Caroline had a very profound notion the other night about all of my cityscape paintings I have been doing lately .. she said it was my way of coping or healing after 9-11 and she's very right .. I wouldn't have ever consciously jumped into window frame scenes with city scapes as some healing mechanism to that day that likely scarred us all in ways our subconscious won't full let on about .. but, maybe I found the healthiest way my brain could find to come to that grand healing conclusion about a damned bad day around this country .. but, I was actually in Venice, Italy that day and didn't get home until a week later .. but, the pangs hit me in a very profound, yet different way .. at any rate, it was a good assessment of a nice series .. cheers ..

Slight Emmy Win

In a very small, almost minute way, I was a part of an Emmy win the other day with my work through Current.Tv. The station picked up the award for “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Television” and I was a small part of that with my Kansas Flooding piece that aired through July. Currently, I am trying to see if my 'Travel Photo.Paint' piece gets aired as well. No word yet, but for all of you voting and pulling for it, it's all well worth it. Tune in and enjoy it out there, kids ..

More Travel News .. The Spreading

One of your pics is going to Ireland later this month. One was dropped in Sydney, Australia over the summer. I haven't gotten to check on the other yet, but one was suposed to go to Hawaii too. - Lori, Kansas City Troop Leader

I'm headed to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in mid-October and will be in Livonia (Detroit), MI, too, early that month. Send me several items because I'll be all over the country for work the next many months. Glad to help.

- Brian, Blue Springs, MO

This morning I ran into a friend while having coffee. He told me he'd received an email from a friend of his asking him to check out a web site that linked him to video documentary that included a photo of my neighbor Dan, who he went to highschool with...got all that? Six degrees of separation, as always, led me to your the details of your project and I'd like to get involved! I travel here and there, but I have friends in faraway places that I think would get a kick out of your project. How can I get involved?
- Abby, Midtown Kansas City, MO

business more art business?

Just wanted you to know that the Business Council for the Arts just had a meeting here at the firm and David spoke about how great the experience was to have your art here. I am hopeful the name recognition will lead to more Now Showing interest. Later. - King Tim

Commisionner & The Lateness

just found out the other day that in my insanity to move and such in june/july, I missed the application to the unplaza art fair .. a bit chagrined about this becuase it was a very nice festival to be a part of .. but, they got my new coordinates - so next year will work out fine .. also, I think I may be on my way to doing another commissioned piece of work for the school district I work in .. it's a thing called 'circle of courage' .. i enjoy the paint and pleasure of the commissioned work - we'll see .. the work continues to begin again .. cheers ..

New Mexico Drops

Are you still accepting folks who want to leave art wherever they travel? We're going to Santa Fe, NM and Albuquerque Weds for 5 days and would be proud to drop off/document your project. - B

Vote 'Yes' For My Art

I have finally produced and uploaded what I would consider a well-rounded overview of the travel photo.paint project via video/sound/pics. This piece has been posted on http://www.current.tv/ for consideration to be aired nationally .. in the meantime, you can vote on this piece by clicking on this link - Click here to view and vote - and in the meantime, i'm readying myself to rid this self-imposed exile from the easel and begin throwing some paints around .. stay tuned and thanks for your continued support .. cheers ..