“Vibrating Bunny”

Vibrating Bunny

Painting: 2017

Had the inspiration to try the vibration or wavelength look after going to an art fair in Uptown Art Fair, MN. How the artist (name forgotten) created the vibration mesmerized me. I probably stood in front of his stand for 20 or so minutes with my mouth open, just dumbfounded. Have you ever had that moment when something clicks? That was for me. My wife and I went home later and I gave it a go.  As always, I threw down some Acrylic as my backdrop, in this case, black.  Why black? I wanted something simple that would make any foreground pop out. Don't regret the decision. Then I pick up some bright oil colors I had around the basement and made a few drops in a line across the canvas. Grabbed my mixing knife and used it to mix the colors and make the vibrating/wavelength look happen. I thought the picture looked pretty good, but since I saw what I could do, I took out a tube of titanium white and tossed it on. I was quite surprised to see a bunny off the bat and stopped dinking with the picture and called it done. 

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“Hang Over”

“Hang Over”

Drawing: 2016

Started this drawing as I decided at the time I was going to quit drinking. It was a big moment for me, as I was doing it in solidarity with my wife.  I never knew where we were going with our marriage or what was going to become of our relationship as drinking always was a way for us to speak openly to each other. Both positive and negative. When I look at this picture today, I feel all the trials we had to go through after that decision. The challenges that we simply had to relearn to talk to each other. That's odd really. Learning to talk to each other. But we found when we went out to eat, for the first year, we just sat there. Nothing to say but light conversation. It showed us how much drinking was part of our relationship. It took us a year and a half to relearn ourselves and each other. That is why this image to me is so perfect. It's imperfect. There are some lines in the boxes that shouldn't be there. Boxes are all over the place, leading to the bottom/middle of a complex maze. Simple, but very complex. Hence why I choose to name this “Hang Over”.