Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Angry Foot Painting

Years back, I lived in a house in Midtown that had a whole yard of angry stickers that would kill your feet if they found your skin on a barefoot day. This happened quite a bit to me. I made a painting to eulogize all that blood that hung in the lobby of that house. It went to a good friend that lived across the hall .. Mr. Chad Parks .. Enjoy ..


Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Costa Rica Travel Art Drop

While on an Overseas Adventure Travel trip to Costa Rica, Sarah Barrows dropped a picture at San Francisco School, La Fortuna, Costa Rica. The students were very excited about being able to follow the traveling art project using computers in the lab donated by the Grand Circle Foundation, OAT's parent company.


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Monday, December 21, 2009

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 ..