Brevard Art Museum’s 2008 Juried Exhibition

The piece that I submitted to the Brevard Art Museum’s 2008 Juried Exhibition was one of my paper bag series - it is named "Skyscraper" and will be on display from July 18 to September 12, 2008, at the Brevard museum in Melbourne, Florida. So ya'll jump on a plane and visit. :-) The quality of the artists and the art is really amazing. There is truly creative art being created on the Space Coast. I feel really honored to be displayed in this show.

This is a subtle little painting, measuring 12" x 12", an oil painting on canvas. It is painted all in browns, except the bag label in red - barely visible - seemingly as if done as monochromatic, yet we know that brown is inclusive of all reflective color.

At one level this painting represents a simple container, the skyscraper is a container as well.

Live Drawing to Painting

I really enjoy drawing live, on the spot drawings, and I've recently experimented with turning them into paintings. After all, whatever challenged or attracted me to the subject in the first place just might be worthy of further investigation. Maybe.

My daughter, Madison plays -now - college softball. If you have some knowledge of the game, then you understand that a large part of our formative years were spent in High school ball and the rest of the year travel ball, which would take us throughout three States and many, many weekends. It's actually a great game - and somewhere along the way I started drawing the games. Way difficult on any number of levels, but every once in a while something decent turned up on my drawing pad. Included is the original drawing and also the resulting oil on masonite painting. 6 x 6

I noticed that when you click on the painting for a larger view - you get a larger view - waaay larger, almost to the molecular level - lol.