Recent items that already have a new home. Listed in order of creation.
“Booger, the Nekkid Kitteh.”
Booger was the first artwork I’ve done since I started chemo. It’s an ATC (Artist Trading Card), meaning that it’s no larger than a baseball card.
Booger was made for my friend Keith.
I asked him what he wanted on his ATC; here is the list he gave me:
- A giant pot plant
- Some mushrooms
- An 8-ball
- A cybernetic Booger with lasers, riding a T-Rex
- Jesus smoking a cigarette
“Presence Defies Solitude”
This painting, in Prismacolor pencils on Bristol, was created as a wedding gift for a friend. Each element represents one of the two people getting married, and the composition reflects how their former solitude is being combined into a whole while each retains their separate identity. The water represents the flow of emotions between the two of them.
…In the Field
Part of a painting in Prismacolor Pencils that I did for a friend. He has already seen it so I’ll post part of it here for your viewing pleasure. The original is 11 x 14, completed May 2008. You can see the influence of the unique local landscape. The hills here really do look like this. My friend is in crop & soil science so for him I created an image that represents his stewardship of the land and his love of the food plants that grow on it. Here, our hills are planted mainly in wheat, but corn and soybeans have a special place in his heart (and research). There are corn plants in the part of the painting you can’t see. Forgive me for not posting the entire thing for you, but it’s a portrait. I hope it’s a good likeness, but I am after all a surrealist so… 
A Million Poppies (Gonna Make Me Sleep)
Prismacolor Pencil on Bristol, 11 x 7 unmatted. Completed Sunday, May 18, 2008; Sold May 30, 2008.
The inspiration for this painting was an image from a semi-dream state (somewhere between being awake and being asleep). I had started to doze off while the song “Low” by Cracker was playing, and in particular the line, “a million poppies gonna make me sleep, but just one rose it knows your name.” I have been taking hydrocodone for the severe pain that is a side effect of Taxol — my latest chemo drug — it’s an opium derivative, thus “a million poppies.”
