April Showers

I was reminded the other day why we have April showers...May flowers. More rain next week. Too bad the roof leaks.

I have lots of new work. As a matter of fact I am so busy making work (and doing some other things, like teaching) that I have had little time to post. Here is another cubist piece that I made on Wednesday.

Still Life with Mannekin
Mixed media on paper, 2010


Here's another piece that I started  a great while ago and finally finished. It's a portrait of my friend Jon Koons as a potatohead. I promised him that I would do it twenty years ago. Finally finished.

Portrait of Jon Koons (as a potatohead)
Oil on canvas, 2010

Happy New Year!

It's 2010. Somehow, I never thought I'd see that date. Here's some new work.

Have been a busy artist last year and in 2010. Lots of mixed media + figurative work. Here's an 8" x 10" mixed media piece I finished recently. It's now part of Dave Rhody's collection.

Snarling Dick

Powerful men can really screw things up. Two wars, a lapse in civil liberties, torture, eight years of pain and on and on and on. What a legacy. Here's a portrait of a real life villain and puppetmaster, Snarling Dick.

Heads Up

For the last three years or so I have been painting various heads - people I know, my own head, mugshots, political figures, and at least one pundit. It's not easy painting someone you can't stand to look at. Here's a painting of Ann Coulter. The piece is unfinished.

Sad Ann
Oil on canvas
2006

More New Work

Have had a productive Summer. I completed several new abstract pieces as well as a self portrait. Here's the final version of the self portrait I started in June. You can see the first draft before I had applied a series of oil glazes, at my June 13, 2009 post http://maliciousmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/06/self-portraits-can-be-fun.html

6/09 Self Portrait, Oil on canvas

And an abstract that had vexed me but now is quite satisfying...

Still Life with Vase and Oranges, Acrylic and collage on linen.

Click here to see more of my self portrait work.

9/9/09

So what's so special about number nine? I dunno. It just IS. Here's what Heather Whipps at LiveScience says about this date: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial

An experimental animation celebrating 9.

Have Another Donut

Red Donut, 2001-2009, Oil on panel

Here's a recent painting destined for the SJICA (San Jose institute of Contemporary Art). Red Donut was part of a triptych completed in 2001.  I have reworked the painting. I've changed the red a bit and intensified the 3D illusion.