Just a little one off painting I had floating around in my head for an upcoming exhibition at the end August. Still painting people and things related to Colorado but exploring the idea of multiples where I change up the composition slightly and colors for different effect. We’ll se where this takes me.
March painting photo dump
Technical I made four but haven’t finished the details on the last one.
Couple more tattooed cowboys
Sometimes you just gotta
Make fun of the art world and misinformation. Here’s an old piece from 2019 “The Humorist” and a new one “The Treachery of Words.” Both are part of the super secret “Bootleg Sideshow” group exhibition opening October 7th at Core New Art Space in the Hub at 40 West, 6501 W Colfax Ave in Lakewood
Arizona Experiments
Spent a few weeks out in the desert making art. 🏜 🌵
Another new one
Studies of Gonzo Journalism no. 12 since these paintings of Hunter S. Thompson keep selling I thought I’d switch it up a bit. Granted next time I would paint the hand with alternating stripes and add the face tattoos.
That new, new
It was one of those ideas I get right before drifting off to sleep come to fruition.
Something new
I thought about adding some MySpace sparkle graphics and making these into an NFTs, but then I remembered those are just expensive pogs.
Few Commission
For a new collector based off tin types from his private collection. Custer was a polarizing figure in the American west but having my painting randomly in the same color hanging next to a print from Andy Warhol’s cowboy and Indians series is pretty wild!
Howdy Cowboy
different color way of a cowboy painting from my last show.
Ashcroft Hotel
There’s a ghost town outside of Aspen called Ashcroft. During summers when I was a kid my family would go camping and explore old mine dumps, ghost towns and that like. So here’s a study of the old hotel in Ashcroft, but burning. You can check it out in person in the annex of Core New Art Space after checking out the awesome show by Michelle Lamb, Claudia Roulier, and Susie Biehl’s through November 7th.
Last One
Last Hunter S. Thompson Colorway for a while got a bunch of these 7x5” paintings framed and available in my webstore looking to move them ASAP.
If you
Never stuffed friends, cousins, siblings, in the trunk before going to the drive in, can you really call yourself a Coloradan?
Final Product
And here we have the fruits of my labor. Thought painting smaller would be faster- it’s not. Gotta add way more details for smaller paintings to look right.
Underdrawing
Layout for a slightly larger painting of Hunter S. Thompson. Kinda in love with multiples at the moment, exploring how my mood or the time of day I’m working on something can affect/effect my final painting. We’ll see how this on turns out.
Neon Lights
Mixed with Mount Bierstadt
Studies of Gonzo journalism
Few little 7 in x 5 in studies of Hunter S. Thompson:
Celebrity Sports Center
Bowling, giant water slides, a crazy arcade with animatronic Wild West shooting gallery? Yeah it was awesome. Thinking about doing an open edition of prints, let me know if that’s a good idea?
Couple more new pieces
Last painting of 2020
First painting of 2021, Horace Tabor the “Silver King”
Unsinkable
Molly Brown. I’ve always wanted to do some portrait paintings exploring historic Colorado. But updating them in a fun and contemporary way. Pretty pleased with the results.
