Kid Art at Autism Clinic

this morning, i donated a stack of 'kid art' to the autism and behavioral therapy clinic i take miles to every thursday .. the idea is to laminate these and decorate the blank walls for the kids to smile a bit more .. these are my favorite sorts of donations .. good luck out there ..

taping the time lapse

been spending last weekend and this week filming quite extensively the stitching together of one Kansas City window painting .. from picking out the canvass, to sketching to painting .. it's coming together quite well .. I plan on hopping over to Moby's web site for some quality music to layer within the short film .. I'll post as soon as it's done .. by the way, i'm trying to get some slide film developed for a submittal i'm doing for the westport art fair and not having much luck .. these old school folks need to graduate to the 21st Century and leave the archaic and expesive slide film alone .. it's a completely uncool request these days to make folks spend 9 bucks for a roll of 24 and about 10 bucks to develop them, if you can find a photo mat that will do it .. let's graduate to 2007, judges .. bye bye .. joe

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 ..