Friday, March 18, 2022

"Color Wheel" at Rubine Red Gallery in Palm Springs, CA

Two Goats, 36x36", acrylic/graphite on mounted panel, 2021 (SOLD)


"Color Wheel" New Paintings from
at Rubine Red Gallery in Palm Springs, CA
March 19 - April 4, 2022
Opening Reception: Sat March 19 from 5-8pm 

View all of my available works and detail photos via: Rubine Red Gallery


Fancy Bird, 31" diameter, acrylic graphite on solid pine round, 2021


Red Poodle, 36x36", acrylic/graphite on mounted panel, 2021 (SOLD)


Ghost Bird, 36x36", acrylic/graphite on mounted panel, 2021 (SOLD)


Secret Handshake, 36x36", acrylic/graphite on mounted panel, 2021 (SOLD)


Future Ghost, 31" diameter, acrylic graphite on solid pine round, 2021


Big Dog, 24 x 30", acrylic/graphite on mounted panel, 2020

Installation view of Ghost BirdFancy Bird and Future Ghost

BlueBerry and Bug, 12x16" each


A collage my Michael Soltis and Two Goats


Wednesday, March 9, 2022

New Mural Paintings for The Herbivorous Butcher in NE Mpls

Four large painted mural panels in my teeny studio.

Several weeks ago I had the great pleasure of painting some big, giant "mural" panels for my friends at The Herbivorous Butcher, an amazing vegan butcher shop in NE Mpls.

I absolutely love working with them because they let me be a total weirdo- they encourage it! 
- I included a neon mystery meat sandwich
- a crabby cat
- @Brother_Butcher's dog, Potato, wielding a butcher knife
- an upsidedownface squirrel...and so on. 

A DREAM JOB!

The panels will hang in their beautiful, new office headquarters.

Scroll on if you'd like to see some photos from the mural painting process!

First up: Sketches- these are the 4 panel designs we decided to go with.

I had so many ideas- it was hard to decide which critters to include

more options

some more

We rented a BIG truck to get the panels to my studio. 
THANK YOU to my bff, Brad,  for driving and schlepping!

My normal studio set up

I moved things around to squeeze in the panels. They JUST fit!

making progress

I was feeling my age (47, soon!) crawling around on the floor but it was worth it- SO FUN.

Almost done!

I tried out colors on the drawing in Photoshop as I went along. Working out colors ahead of time helped me to avoid time consuming boo-boos.

Mystery Meat Sandwich with onions- 100% vegan!

This is my cartoon-y rendition of @Brother_Butcher's dog, Potato!




This carrot friend was my fav part.




Thanks for lookin!
Do you need a mural? A weird one or a not weird one? 
HIRE ME?! ;0)