Author: mightylark

So, this thursday for first thursday I intend to be in Occidental Park selling my paintings for an incredibly reduced rate. I’ll be there starting at like five thirty and going until it starts to get dark. Everything would be a deal at twice the price except the snake oil.

Anyway here are a couple of examples of the pieces I will have there.

This piece is titled “Rockem’ Sockem’ ” after the game that prompted so many after it, like hungry hungry hippos and trouble. Actually I have no idea about trouble. The pop-o-matic bubble may very well have been it’s own brainchild.

This one is called “Brighter than the Others”. This may be the happiest I have ever been with my colors. Hope you like it too.

“The Wind Machine” was part of the Cloud Constructors series. I always kind of envisioned this rock forming out of the middle of the ocean off the coast of Florida, with the machine on top directing all of the hurricanes that run through Florida.

So I am also planning out a series paying incredible attention to the smoke pouring out of smoke stacks. I figure this is a good thing to be thinking about with a huge move across the country coming up again. Only thing you can think of in Gary, Indiana.

Anyway, anyone who is looking for some original work, get in touch with me. It is all incredibly reduced for the next month, and I would rather not have to move any of it with me.

peace

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So if you didn’t know me, you’d probably think that I’ve been being totally lazy this whole month, and perhaps that wouldn’t be completely out of line. I’ve been fishing as much as I can make it, and I’ve been going to a lot of coffee shops lately, but believe it or not I’ve just been in the thinking process on a couple big projects.

First off I am working on a project with my bro Mattie from San Fran. Once it has been more completed, I will fill you in more. Suffice it to say for now that it is poetry and painting marrying and having a tumultuous relationship.

Second I’ve been working on a label for a new type of beer that Baron Brewing Company is putting out in November.

Third I’ve been working on a book cover for the Microscopic Giant a zine that will be coming out shortly. When I am finished with the cover I will throw it up here.

Fourth I finished a painting for a show at the Hive in California in the month of September.

And here’s a random sketch for a character in the Naked Lunch.

Let me know what you think.

Until then.

I learned that one of my dad’s very good friends has been very ill. It is rough knowing that people that you remember being so healthy and energetic, are now for lack of better words, old. Every time I go home to see my parents, I can see a difference. But apparently, “the pirate”, the nickname we use for my dad’s friend, is really not doing so well. so this drawing is what I came up with while thinking about “the pirate”.

Hope you feel better soon, Dave.

So last night was a pretty productive night. I worked two paintings from the beginning to halfway. I also went to fred meyer and got fishing lures. (Mepp’s Anglias) It’s going to be a good night tonight. I am going fishing as soon as I finish work. If you need me I will be on the pier at Golden Gardens.

But I suppose if people come here, they are not looking for my news on fishing, though if I catch something you can bet there will be a picture of it up here. In the meantime, here are a couple more pieces for your viewing pleasure.

The television ideas have been coming to me again. In fact I think for one I am going to do a bunch of pieces that are just single tvs, so that everyone can by a new tv for their house. I feel like everyone always wants a new tv, and I assure you all of my tvs allow you to view in HD.

Hopefully this doesn’t happen for a while, but you can’t deny that someday it will, and the only people happy about it will be trekkies.

lata

So I went home, got to draw in my sketch book a whole bunch, picked up a book of Tu Fu’s poetry, a bunch of fly fishing books and a Remington Country belt buckle. My parents were doing well and I even saw a couple of my aunts.

Some big changes were going on at home. On Tug Hill there are now several hundred windmills that look super ugly. Well other than that there weren’t really any big changes, but that was pretty big. I’m also attempting to get a piece into a show in Sacket’s Harbor now. If my piece gets in I will be tickled pink, seeing that Sackett’s is where all the artists that seem to do paintings of mallards their entire career seem to make all of their money. We’ll see.

But for now I’ve got a couple sketchbook pages and the painting that I am sending into that show….

So this is what the windmills look like on Tug Hill. I was shocked to see them when I was riding home. Tug Hill was always just picturesque farm fields and whatnot.

I had animal crackers in the Airport. It struck me funny that none of the animals really looked like what they were supposed to be. I remember them being more accurate. Shame on Barnum’s and Bailey’s.

I was having a cup of coffee before I left on Wednesday, and this girl was in there talking about pea soup. She wanted to leave Seattle because everything reminds her of pea soup. I want to leave Seattle because of people that compare it to pea soup.

This is a small painting that I am sending into Sacket’s Harbor. You may remember the sketch. The painting is a response to a Jack Kerouac haiku.

Dusk-the bird
on the fence,
a contemporary of mine

Hope everyone’s day goes well. I on the other hand am late. peace.

I don’t have to deliver beer for four whole days. That is awesome! I also get to reflect on life for a while as I fly. Flying puts me more at peace than pretty much anything on earth. I always think of good ideas while flying. Or, at least I think of ways to link together things that I have been working on previously, so as to come to a larger overall understanding of what I am doing.

I have two drawings and a quick painting for you today. ( for some reason I just felt like I was speaking like Mr. Rogers in my head there. Everybody lets change into our indoor shoes and come along with me to the land of make believe. Now I know I need that vacation. )

So this is another journal entry. As you can see, I’ve pretty much started thinking of myself as Bruce Banner turning into the incredible hulk while delivering kegs. although I am really more akin to the “incredible bulk” or perhaps even the “incredible sulk”.

What if robots were tiny? Jonathan Swift would have a field day. And I wouldn’t have to clean out my own ear wax. O.k., that is disgusting, and on that note, I’m going on vacation.

If I can just get organized….Applying to grad school is all of the same preparation as applying to galleries. If a school would accept me, wouldn’t a gallery. I’m stuck in the middle again.

Fly fishing this summer has definitely led me to work on some fish pieces. I’m thinking an entire maze of mines that fish outfitted like world war two vets have created, while fishermen outside of the water look completely clueless…..Let me know what you think.

Very soon I will be back in New Hampshire, and when that happens the full winter walking series will be coming out. I think it will be really cool. The figures are pretty much going to lose some of their shape, because of the huddle effect. It’s almost like walking in the winter in New England is like running into the Blob face to face over and over again……

Long live snow suits.

So I spent the night working on an artist’s statement that should have technically been done approximately a year and a half ago, but this is generally the speed that I end up working. In other news camping proved fruitless this weekend, and I didn’t get to go fishing either, but I did a couple cool sketches down…..

I’ve already started a painting of this one. It’s going pretty well, though I don’t think I am going to include the text in the painting.

This second one is actually two separate journal entries. They are both supposed to be visual poems in their own right, though I am more pleased with the completion of the first. It’s simple like a haiku. (and that was a joke!)

and one more picture today……

This is beth looking good on the Astoria trip last weekend. That bluff was super cool too. Beth is standing about four hundred feet above a little cave that went into the rock ledge that was filled with water. You know that’s going to be incorporated into a piece later.

Last night I watched Finding Neverland. I found it especially interesting for JM Barrie’s wife to be reading his journal. It made me think a little bit about how detached you can so easily become from the people around you, and how little they really know about what you are thinking by what you write in your journal. Most of what I write are notes or random poetry, or things to jog my memory, or perhaps a specific thought for a specific time……

I thought I’d show a couple excerpts though.

I’ve been reading a lot of Kerouac again lately. He always makes me draw people hitch-hiking or camping or on a mountain.

And here is an example of how I end up compartmentalizing my thoughts. I like to think of it as the comic of mike. Anyway, maybe I will put more of my journal entries up in the future. Hopefully you like seeing these.

So this weekend Beth and I went camping at Ft Stevens in Oregon, then drove down the coast and took lots of cool pictures of the ocean, saw a tv show being filmed, and a bunch of starfish. We also dropped several bird paintings at Lunar Boy Gallery. I dropped off a disk with digital images as well, so you should be able to see all of the paintings up on the website soon too.

This one is called “Good Day Mr. Bird”, and yes it has been up on the blog before, but I revised the bird. Now it actually looks like a red winged black bird which makes me very happy. Next we have “Just Push Play”, a not so good example of what Aerosmith can do and a pretty good example of what I can do.

Last but not least. Bird on a wire is going to be a series all its own. I think more birds on more spread out wires though. I’m also kind of picturing the wires making up a patchwork like that in a mondrian. More from the end of his career though. The whole idea comes from this rad photo that I got from my buddy Billy in Portland, ME. So if you like it send props to Billy.