November's Surface Girl

Surface. Acrylic, charcoal on canvas

Upcoming show at First Cup

Acrylic on canvas

In five months I'll be displaying and selling some of my art in the First Cup Coffee House on Woodstock Blvd. Five months might seem far away to some of us, but I'd like to give myself a head start. This is one of the pieces that will likely be hanging on the walls in May.

Portland Watercolor

I looked out my window and saw this

Menu Art at the Bula Kava House

This past August I was hired to re-do the menu at the Bula Kava House, located at 3115 SE Division Street in Portland, OR. If you haven't tried kava yet, consider checking it out. You might love it, you might not, or you might simply enjoy having a new experience.

Collage Self-Portrait... Still In Progress

Paper collage

I tend to work on my personal art projects with bursts of intensity that last for a few hours, and then I abandon the projects for... a while. The amount of time I abandon them for usually depends on whether some third party is expecting to see progress or not (if they are, I keep working), or on how many nitty gritty details I still have to complete (if there are too many, I procrastinate). That is why this particular project is still unfinished: no one is expecting me to finish, and all of the work I have left is nitty and gritty. My progress certainly slows down increasingly the closer I get to finishing. I am supposedly almost done with this self-portrait, but I still have some details to work out– mostly I need to add subtle shadows and correct some lines and curves. It could take a while before I finally decide to call it done. In the meantime, enjoy this work-in-progress!

If you like before and after pictures as much as I do, check out this link to see what it looked like before. Or scroll down.

I finally painted something

Disillusion (2013).  Acrylic on cardboard.

Three works-in-progress

At this point in time, everything I have been working on lately is as of yet unfinished. I could wait to share these until they are completely finished, but I don't know when that will be, and I do love a good before and after photo comparison. Don't you? Here are some things I am currently working on:

Collage self-portrait. Remember those useful little fashion magazines I mentioned in an earlier post?

Water color and ink on paper. So far.

Water color, ink, and acrylic on paper, as seen out of my window in February.