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