One of the things about not having a normal job, schedule or vaguely normal life is that holidays hold a tenuous place in my life. I’m usually the last to know about an upcoming holiday. Students will be the first ones to inform me of some day off on a seemingly random Monday. Unlike Columbus…
Every once in a while the stars align in all the right ways to draw me into another loosely art based performance. this is the story of how the Typewriter Rodeo Clown was born.
Art Post Haste July edition! Here’s another round of stories from the art world and its nearby surroundings. Click around to find out why bugs are so important to painters’ palettes, the artsy return of a Kansas City institution, and a smattering of good, bad and interesting art stories for another month.
Here’s some of the latest goings on in the art world. I’ll just leave this link here. I really can’t tell you what I think of this. Neanderthals made art before humans did! Stanley Spencer is an amazing painter I’ve always admired. He was also, sadly, a broken man. I randomly ran across this sketch…
Here are the latest links from around the web that deal with the art world, design, or just some interesting stuff in general: Austinites! Courtesy of the fine folks at Big Medium, the West Austin Studio Tour revs up this weekend and continues through next weekend. It’s your uber-less duty to check out and support…
The Blue Genie Danger Derby Here’s a look back at one of the crazier art events Ian Shults and I put together for Blue Genie Art in Austin, Texas. The Danger Derby is a no-rules pinewood derby race featuring a 120′ track fraught with dangers the entrants must overcome – a firepit, blowtorches, swinging anvils…
Last Supper Oil Painting Commission A few months ago I was commissioned to paint a version of the Last Supper for a client. I visited the space, came up with some ideas that would fit the room, including scale and colors, and after a few months of painting held up by an unheated studio in…
THE PRESIDENTIAL LOSERS BOOK! Just prior to the last Presidential Election, I was invited to partake in a great idea for a group art show – a show devoted to all the men and women who ran, and lost, a Presidential Election. The show, the brainchild of the crazed Austin energies of Shannon McCormick and…
Despite the near freezing cold, the days and nights prior to the event were spent standing in puddles of icey water to set up the track, and the elements provided a gusty wind just to make sure everyone was properly chilled. Much like the celebration of the holiday in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, all…
