Acrylic on 20.5″ x 16″ Wood Continuing playing with black and white and greyscale. I worked on this in between working on the big street art mural, making me use different skills. Where the mural was all about shape and … Continue reading
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Rose-Tinted Glasses
Here it is, my first big piece of street art. You can see it in person at 2425 S 50th St, Kansas City, KS. This was a tremendous experience and I have a feeling you’ll be seeing more work like … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Five
I spent a couple hours the night before making this giant stencil that consisted of 14(!) pieces of poster board taped together. The next day, I went back out to the site and got to work on mounting it to … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Four
I continued with more cleaning and polishing. Lots of little things that most people wouldn’t even notice, but were a huge problem for me. Other people see art in my work. I see flaws and errors. With time, I’ve learned … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Three
Here, I fixed some of the proportion issues I had and tightened up a few things. I was really unhappy at this point. Cold and unhappy. It was nearing the end of the first day and I was frustrated as … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Two
With my guidelines in place, it was time to lay down where my colors will go. I approached this the same way I do all of my paintings, going from dark to light, from background to foreground. For this particular … Continue reading
Night Riding
Acrylic on 2’x4′ wood My first painting of 2012, done on the first and the second of the month. I’m personally really happy with how this turned out. Even though it’s a bigger piece with big spaces, there was a … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day One
I had the great fortune to be invited to do a piece for this building in Kansas City, KS. Doing a big street art piece is something I’ve been wanting to do for about a year now and I’ve been … Continue reading
Plaid
Acrylic on 14″x35″ wood It was fun mixing the earthtones of the figure with the greyscale of the plaid shirt. The idea was to make the normally muted colors pop, although it might have done the opposite due to the … Continue reading
Friend With Benefits
Acrylic on 14″x35″ wood
Katy Power and Light
Acrylic on 14″x35″ wood I did this for my totally awesome wife Katy for the holidays. Katy’s become synonymous with the city, having written about it for the Star, a travel guide for Moon Handbooks, and numerous magazines. She knows … Continue reading
Katy and Adam
Watercolor and ink on 12″x16″ watercolor paper I did this for my mother-in-law Ruth Ann. It’s of my wife Katy and my brother-in-law Adam, her two children (obviously). The first painting I did for her, by the way, was of … Continue reading