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“Charming”
01 Tuesday Jan 2013
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“Life is Ruff” water color series. Available as cards
06 Thursday Sep 2012
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“Brer Rabbit Nibbles up all the Butter”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
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animals, Brer Rabbit, characters, children, expressionistic drawing, graphite, illustration, pencil, stories, story art, text in art
Part three of the Brer Rabbit triptych. This also has the story written into the background for texture and to spark the viewer’s curiosity about the old stories. Many we have heard since childhood, like the story of the Tar Baby, but seldom do we hear about the original, old stories that didn’t become so popular. Perhaps they remained obscure for good reasons, many of them were too gruesome to be children’s stories.
“Brer Fox Catches the Saddle Horse”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
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animals, Brer Rabbit, character, graphite, illustration, loose drawing, pencil, series, story art, text as texture, text in art, writing
This is piece two of the Brer Rabbit series which was created for my senior show. I also has the abridged story scribbled into the background as texture. Like a puzzle you can read the whole story, if you can find it. Or better yet, just find it at the library and read it.
“Brer Rabbit Fools Sis Cow”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
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animal characture, animals, book illustration, Brer Rabbit, caricature drawings, cartoon, drawing, graphite, letter background, pencil, story art, words incorporated into art
This is part one of a three part series I drew for my senior show at college. The background texture is made up of gestural marks mixed with the words taken from the story ‘Brer Rabbit fools Sis Cow”
“The Man with the Alpaca Felt Hat”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
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colored pencil, colorful art, expressionistic, mixed media, old man portrait, painting, person, portrait, sketch, water color
This was a voluntary portrait of a friend. The picture was taken the first day we met and he was sporting one of his wife’s hand-made alpaca hats. He looked so frail and yet his personality was so colorful, that I just had to try to capture that in this watercolor / colored pencil sketch.
Not my Will, But….
21 Saturday Jul 2012
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2012 art, Gethsemane, graphite, Jesus, multimedia, painting, perspective art, prayer, religious art, water color
This painting was created this year in April. It is water color and graphite, with acrylic accents. I wanted to depict what it was like for Jesus in that moment of decision in the garden of Gethsemane when he had to choose God’s will or his own. It struck me how real it is that Christ actually shared in our temptations, just like the Bible claims and he never asks us to do anything he didn’t do first!
“Trust” Painting to be Part of Museum’s Permanent Collection
21 Saturday Jul 2012
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The painting titled “Trust,” my largest fine art painting to date, has been bought by the College of the Ozarks and is to be part of the Ralph Foster Museum permanent collection. For hours, admission and other information on the museum, visit their website:
Turtle Race
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, animal, art, festival, fun painting, large painting, painting, reptile, turtles
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Ford Timeline Mural
17 Thursday May 2012
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36 foot long mural, car timeline, cars, Ford, Ford car mural, Ford car mural timeline, Ford cars, Ford dealership mural, Ford timeline, Ford trucks, Henry Ford, Henry Ford quotes, historic Fords, history timeline mural, latex, Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove attractions, Mountain Grove murals, murals, old Fords, painting, Wehr Ford
This mural was painted for Wehr Ford in Mountain Grove MO. It is approximately 36 x 7 feet in dimension. It was painted all by hand. I grafted out the dimensions of each car with a grid system while working off of a mobile scaffolding. It took me about two and a half months.
