Thursday
Gone Diving
This is one of the many canvases I found at Deseret Industries, and it had felt on the edges of the frame and a bubbly texture I had to paint over. The idea is simple really, give an object some human attribute and a speech bubble. I do this over and over again, its just a weird thing to do and I enjoy the hell out of it.
Strange Numbered Family Of Cats
I found this framed picture in a Goodwill in Tacoma, and instead of creating an original piece of art I flipped the picture that was already in there over, and water colored and sharpied the outlines. I did add the extra face, the giant nose, the sharp tooth mouth and the numbers.
My older brother I was staying with hanged this. I talked him into it, and he was surprised how intimidating of a task it is!
PikaTeen Portrait
This watercolor painting was made while I was staying in Tacoma with my brother, in the summer of 2013. I installed this in a sushi bar within walking distance of his apartment, and they gave us a slice of watermelon after our meal! I watched Poke'mon growing up, and Pikachu was my favorite character. This is basically an attempt at some kind of anthropomorphic sketch, a re-imagined teen version of what Pikachu could be if he was more human.
Ghostship on the Purple Ocean and Orange Horizon
This is an admittedly terrible painting. At the time, I was more concerned with the act of hanging up art and how many I could hang up, so I hanged anything I could. This painting is also a failed attempt at mixing and blending wet acrylic paint, and the sharpie lines are bad too. This painting sucks, I'm done explaining it.
A Hippie's Coffee Table and Mouse Dude
A Hippie's Coffee Table was drawn and framed by my friend Adam. He drew it while I stayed at his apartment in Salt Lake City, and its basically a still life of the coffee table in his living room. He called his roommates hippies because of all the pipes and bongs left on the table after usage. The mouse dude is a water color painting, and this character is one of mine from high school, I think. What made this installation funnier to me was that the mouse has a thought bubble, reading "pizza", and I hanged these in a Vietnamese restaurant. Just thinking what we were all thinking, I guess.
Lucky Duck
The Lucky Duck is a subject I paint often, whether black and white or in color, acrylic or water color. This painting is not the original, I painted the original while I was working in Southern Utah at a large outdoor theater venue, in 2009. I'm almost positive I gave it away in 2011 to a good friend, who showed it to her family, and they all loved it. So, I always try to re-paint the Lucky Duck when I can, because its a good character and its cute. I hanged this in the malfunctioning bathroom behind the kitchen in a Chinese restaurant where I worked off and on from 2010 to 2012 in Spanish Fork, UT.
Wolfensteen
This is the first painting I hanged that was done by another artist. This painting was made in my first ski season in Park City, 2011-2012 by a friend of mine named Max. Its a painting of a wolf/husky dog and I named it after a dog my family owned when I was in high school. Max has a very impressionist style, mixing and blending with acrylic on a canvas, and his favorite subject is animals. I hanged this in a coffee shop called Buns 'N Brews in Spanish Fork, UT. I went to check on the painting a couple months later but someone removed it, taking bits of the wall paint with it. Double sided adhesive craft foam is potentially destructive of the wall, but its a risk I'm willing to take.
A Miracle, Dreamlike Landscape, and Cranky Frog
An interesting cluster of paintings, and all in the same bathroom. The photos of these paintings look a little off because the fluorescent bulbs in there were burnt out, and that made it even more spooky to hang these paintings. The Dreamlike Landscape was a piece I made in high school, when I spent half the day in a little cubicle in the art room. The Cranky Frog was a doodle I brought to life in the form of watercolor, in the spring of 2013. A Miracle was also a character that was doodled, and painted in a few different forms but recreated in watercolor and put in a cutesy frame in 2013. I hanged all these in a bathroom in a guitar/music shop in my old hometown, Spanish Fork UT.
Sunset For Sailors
I consider this painting my first real success with blending wet acrylic paint on the canvas. I also really like the colors, they appear washed out compared to how bright orange the bathroom walls were, but they were vibrant too. I made this painting during my stay in Park City, but I hanged it in the bathroom in Rancheritos in Provo.
Dinosaur In The Tall Grass
I made this painting during the time period I live in Park City, and I started exploring the technique of mixing acrylic paint while it was still wet. It adds a cool texture, and takes less time than painting the color again when the paint dried. This painting was hanged in a handicap stall in the Deseret Industries in Provo.
Finger Ocean In The Moonlight
I painted this when I was living in a loft in Park City, UT in the winter season of 2012-2013. It started out as a painting I didn't like and painted over, twice, and eventually because an off-red purplish landscape. This is a painting based on a drawing I made of fingers clustered in a bird nest, but I didn't have a small enough brush so the nest became an ocean and the background became a moonlit night. I hanged this in a stall in a bathroom in UVU, outside the counselor's offices.
The Love Cat
This is a reproduction of a valentine's card I made for a friend, in early 2013. Its watercolor on paper, framed and mounted on cardboard. It basically combines my favorite references: holidays, animals, and trippy visuals. I hanged this in a handicap stall in the business building in UVU.
The Gentleman
This gentleman is a tentacle-headed leg dude I sketched in high school. He could be the heathen god of the baby changing station. This painting was also hanged in an art museum in Las Vegas.
Shark Face
Shark Face is a character I made after graduating high school, the first painting had him posing on a chair with his legs crossed, and he looked like a proper modern gentleman. This is more like him in lounge clothing, with a purple cardigan and white tee underneath. This was the first painting I hanged, and it was in an art museum bathroom in Las Vegas.
Welcome!
This is a framed landscape of a bathroom. I thought it would be interesting to hang up a painting of a bathroom in a bathroom, referencing the picture within a picture within a picture kind of thing, except with a bizarro Simpsons feel. This painting was hanging up at my parent's house, but as of 2016 its now displayed at my brother's house's bathroom.
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