Kandi:Kandinsky

Recently I've been working again trying to paint, teach and spend as much time with my kids as possible. Elizabeth my five year old loves to paint and work by my side, often I let her paint with me on my canvas. Although, this I've managed to do solo. This painting I started months ago, originally I had the rocking horse hanging in my son's room unfinished. I'd been looking at it for months knowing it wasn't finished. I'd stare at it when I was changing him, or rocking him to sleep. Only just recently after teaching my Youth Drawing and Painting class did I finally have have the inspiration to finish it. It started with the "Painting of the Masters" assignment I had them do. I have them pick an artist and one of their works, they will study and duplicate their piece, it's an excercise of color theory and composition. The student's really enjoy this assignment, they get to learn about their artist, experience their style and create a masterpiece. As I was looking through the my Art books, I came across Wassily Kandinsky and I was inspired! Kandinsky is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. His work is colorful and playful, poetic and musical. I needed some of that infulence in my life.

A little lesson on Eric Carle

We spent the afternoon tearing and pasting tissue paper to create Eric Carle's blue horse. Elizabeth loved it! She's always wanting a new project to make and if it's not with me in the arthouse classroom, she's up in her room cutting away at yarn and paper creating a monstrously beautiful collage out of what ever she can find! I'm thrilled that she is growing so comfortable with her ideas and becoming more and more creative everyday. Today she made a blue horse with tissue paper and gloss medium. We've displayed in our our refrigerator gallery but soon I'll frame it and give it an official spot in our living room.

Gene Harris Jazz Fest Painting

I participating in the Gene Harris Jazz Festival this July. I had the privilege of painting a live interpretation of the music.

You're in Line of Consumption

This is a participation art project or a Do it yourself piece. I gathered several tubes and put instructions inside for the individual participating in "Line of Consumption". The instructions were for each individual to put an object that defines them as a person inside the tube along with a sample of their urine. This relationship between the natural waste of our body and the object being contained- is what I find most interesting. The line represents this never ending theme of waste and consumption in our society. The container not only represents our body but also our artificial way of fulfilling our desires.

Oil Paintings

These are a couple of my recent figure paintings. I'm approaching the body as if we (human-flesh) is more than the figure, there is something beyond--some transcendence, and a relationship between the body and the other.

Altered

BFA thesis

I recently finished finished my BFA thesis exhibition at Boise State University. I had two different Art mediums, one large paintings consisting of four panels and one large sculpture containing over 300 clear plastic cubes.