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Bald Eagle

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You Were Never Duckier

You Were Never Duckier
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Blue Plum Roller Derby Championship 2013

Blue Plum 2013

A variation on last year’s poster.

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Pipestone

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I bought few small chunks of catlinite to see if I could pulverize it for pigment. Its not fast going yet but I’m working on a contraption to automate the process.

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Great Turpentine

Diamond G Turpentine

I keep a little turpentine around for aromatherapy. I pop the top and take a hit, er I mean whiff. I don’t do that with everyday hardware store turp though. The smell is just awful. Art supply turpentine can be

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Honorable Menschen

Honorable Menschen

I often consider a lengthy explanation of a painting, but it’s usually like explaining the punchline of a joke. I’ll get a better photograph of the painting once it’s varnished and you will be able to see a few things

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Dutch Art, Patrons, and Markets

Girl With a Pearl Earring

I’ve been selected to study Dutch art at the High Museum this summer! Here’s a summary from the Council of Independent Colleges prospectus: A rare traveling exhibition of masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age paintings featuring works by Vermeer, Hals, Rembrandt,

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Season Opener Bout Poster

March 2013

March 2013 Bout Poster
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PoonShine

PoonShine

PoonShine is based on formulations developed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The same resin is also found in Gamblin’s Gamvar varnish. Most of what you read about Gamvar is applicable to PoonShine – except its price.

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Bout Poster – October 2012

Bout Poster - October 2012
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Fresh Stuff

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Just labeled a few recently made batches of varnish, blue, yellow, red, and green (pesto).

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Rizzmataz Basil Pesto

Rizzmataz

A friend phoned me up the other day asking if I’d like some basil from her garden. “Of course!”, I said, thinking I’d save myself the guilt of plucking a few leaves here and there. I plucked the small tree

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Well Heeled

Well Heeled

The stretcher frame for this canvas came from Tedd Blevins and I knew the subject I would paint upon it had to be at least a little lascivious. After I had decided on the composition, I remembered a strip club

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Same As It Ever Was

Same As It Ever Was
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Sunday Afternoon

Sunday Afternoon
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The Walking Unled Dead

The Walking Unled Dead
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The Other Half

The Other Half
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Holding a Balance

Holding a Balance

I’ve always had a thing for Flemish still life, almost a dirty little secret for a painter of the modern age. Such decadently illustrative paintings may seem superfluous to the contemporary eye. Johannes Vermeer’s work has a modern simplicity, allowing

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Blue Plum Roller Derby Championship

Poster for the Blue Plum Roller Derby Championship

The Little City Roller Girls are taking to the streets, the Tipton and Spring Streets specifically. Here’s a poster I made for the event.

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Tramp l’oil

Tramp l'oil

People often get tattoos in order to feel unique, owning the bodies they were born into without choice. Selecting a generic design from a book however, seems to only reinforce conformity.

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Varnish

Pervis T. Johannsen's PoonShine Picture Varnish

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I make many of my own materials and while damar never daunted me, I was reluctant with regard to Regalrez. Damar is the traditional varnish but it has some problems with application and aging. The National Gallery of Art has

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Annabelle’s Curse

Annabelle's Curse

My friends, Annabelle’s Curse, have new typography. The first line is set in Oxida, tweaked a little for variety and character. The bottom line is set in Goudy Catalogue.

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Across the River Same

Revisited

Across the River Same

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

—Heraclitus

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Winter Wonder SLAM!

December 2011 Bout Poster

Winter Wonder SLAM!
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Seat Yourself

Seat Yourself - detail

A private conversation in a public place was the prompt for this painting. The cropped exit sign, broken Dos Equis bottle, table and chair legs, and more subtle hints throughout, all give hints as to the topic of this conversation.

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Intermont Art Walk

Saturday November 11, 2011

VI Art Walk 2011

Virginia Intermont College hosts our first Art Walk on November 11, 2011. The event includes artwork from students and faculty in locations across the comfortably walkable campus. Theatre performances of Shakespeare’s The Tempest are also happening the same weekend.

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Little City or Bust

October 2011 Bout Poster

Little City or Bust

The bout title was just bursting with possibilities. Come to the bout on October 8th and get a poster while you’re there.

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Across the River Same

Across the River Same

Heraclitus said we cannot step into the same river twice. We hold on to things as representations of moments, people, places, and past self-images. This fictional, née mythological Atlas Storage facility bears these things we cannot bear to lose.

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Prometheus Band

An oft told tale with a twangy twist

Prometheus Band

My go-to bar, Machiavelli’s, sets the stage for one of my favorite local bands, Annabelle’s Curse, cast as Prometheus.

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Toole Creek Falls

Toole Creek Falls

Great time painting with my friend Kyle Buckland.

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Star Spangled Slammer Bout Poster

June 25, Freedom Hall

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My poster design borrows heavily from Delacroix, whose painting incidentally also inspired the Statue of Liberty.

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Derby in the Loafer Magazine

All's Fair in Love and Derby

Derby in the Loafer

[photospace] This week’s Loafer sports a lovely cover! There’s also the usual one color quarter-page ad inside. I adapted my bout poster theme to fit the magazine. The Loafer is the go-to publication for all the things to do and

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LCRG’s February Bout Poster

All's Fair in Love and Derby - Little City vs. Rocktown Rollers

All's Fair in Love and Derby
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More Papyrus

Papyrus Sample

More sightings of Papyrus.

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Roller Derby Bout Poster

Brawl in the Hall - Little City vs. Blue Ridge

Brawl in the Hall

If you have a heartbeat, you’ll want to be at Freedom Hall on November 13th! This is the last home bout of the season!

I designed the bout poster in Adobe Illustrator. The derby girls are drawn in vectors and based on Rock Nasty and Taz Maniac.

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Mountain View

Mountain View
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Figure Study – Jordan Mullins

Jordan Mullins

Last evening’s figure study at the William King Museum.

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Creeper Trail

Creeper Trail

On the Creeper Trail in Abingdon, VA.

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Portrait of a Tree

Portrait of a Tree - oil on panel - 18x24 inches

Painted on the grounds of the William King Museum.

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Bald Badass – Birthday Card

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Allison Linder found this great card! V’ry nice!

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Self Portrait at 34

Self Portrait at 34

This was yesterday’s painting; I thought I’d whip out a self portrait before my birthday. I pulled out some colors I don’t usually use, starting with Green Earth and some Cobalt Violet Light, Stil de Grain, Lapis Lazuli. All of

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Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge

The back side of Bristol.

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Unicoi County

Unicoi

Fast and loose by a babbling brook.

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The Reluctant Recluse

BFA Show

The Reluctant Recluse #1

While sorting photos, I found these from my BFA show.

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Self Portrait Sick

Self Portrait Sick

Just found an image of this painting from a couple years ago. I was feeling like ten miles of hammered shit.

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Plein Air and More Rain Air

Stone Mill Road - Thanks Kyle and Jen!

Rain Air
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Lincolnshower Park

Lincolnshower Park

Just the other day, I went out to paint for a bit at Lincolnshire Park in Tazewell, VA. Of course, being ill prepared and perhaps ill advised, I was caught in a rain shower. At first, there were just a

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Brian Coryell’s Lighting Assignment

a tabletop of tools

Photo: Brian Coryell
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Caricature

by Shane Mullins

Shane Mullins' Caricature

Shane Mullins, one of my students, made this caricature of me.

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Papyrus Sightings

Papyrus Sample

I’ve had enough! We’ve reached a point of saturation with this typeface that I cannot endure.

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Excellent Photography

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I came across this photograph and followed a link to an album on Flickr.

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Assistant Professor of Art – VIC

With great excitement, I have accepted a position at Virginia Intermont College.

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Trade Show

Every year, Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff sponsors a trade show in Boone, NC. I’ve never been to such an event and Boone isn’t that far away so I went to the show this year. Overall, it was a good show

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